Wegman’s in New York sold 3 liter
containers.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Bill Hooper
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 2:22
PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:30459] Re: U S
dairy
On 2004 Jul 17 , at 11:50 AM, john mercer wrote:
Do
you think they will do a hard metric conversion lets say from one gallon to 4
L, or do a soft conversion to 3.8 L? When the dairy industry in Canada
went metric they did a hard conversion from 1gal. to 4 L.
I think I heard that in some places they've tried 3 L milk containers. Since
they needed a new container anyway (since litres are bigger than quarts) they
tried the 3 L container instead of the 4 L container that would have been
closer to the old gallon. I think they did that because many people found the
old gallon (and a similar sized 4 L container) to be too big and awkward to
handle. The 3 L container seemed to be much easier to pour from.
I'm drawing this from memory so I'm not sure how accurate it is. Does anyone
else recall this? I think it was discussed on this list.
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