What I find really interesting is that "Subway 6-inch" is trademarked, after all it's really not a 6-inch sub -- in a metric country it's actually 15 cm, right? So, Brent, what does McDonalds call their "quarter-pounder" with cheese, if there is such a thing in Australia? I suspect it's the same name, after all it's just a name and doesn't necessarily describe any physical attribute of the product (pre-cooked weight and all).
<rant> It's irritating when you read comments from anti-metricationists who worry over stuff like "so you mean we'll have to call it the 0.11 kilogrammer with cheese?" or "give em a meter and they'll take a kilometer" or "he won't budge 2.54 centimeters". NO! The colloquialisms only came about because they're cute or easy to remember and they are simply a product of the times in which they were created. They won't change just because a country or industry changes units of measurement. </rant> jd -----Original Message----- From: Brent AU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 20, 2004 8:16 PM To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:29252] Re: Australian labelling You may be interested in looking at this Australian Subway (TM) Napkin, which also provides the energy value in kJ. http://users.tpg.com.au/adslw05b/subway.aus.napkin.pdf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris KEENAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:24 AM Subject: [USMA:29043] Australian labelling > Someone at work has just returned from Australia, and brought back some > biscuits. The brand was Arnotts, and I was surprised to see not a sign of > non-metric anywhere - even the energy values were in kJ only. > > -- > Chris KEENAN > UK Metric Assoc: www.metric.org.uk > > >
