Interesting. I would have thought such a scale would be illegal. Did you visit any other stores and especially the deli counter? Since your son lives in Vancouver, maybe he can tell you more as to what the status of metric vs FFU is in the markets.
As for the 473 mL pint being outrageous, it isn't as outrageous as you think. The imperial pint of 568 mL would mean an upsized amount. The American pint is preferred because it is a down-sized amount. The perfect compromise between the two should be 500 mL. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2004-07-19 13:41 Subject: [USMA:30485] Metric in Canada > My wife and I are in Vancouver, on one of our regular visits to our son -- > this time for his 40th birthday. > > At the Public Market on Granville Island, yesterday, I bought some cherries. > The pricing was shown only by the pound. Undaunted, I asked for 600 grams. > The woman serving me put cherries in a plastic bag and started to seal it > with a twist tie. I asked her how she knew it was about 600 g. She indicated > that it would be weighed at the cash register. > > I moved to the cash line and discovered, when I got to the front, that the > scale was calibrated only in pounds. My cherries weighed 1.51 lb, which is > closer to 700 g than 600 g, but I accepted them anyway. (I really like > cherries.) > > Back at the hotel, I checked a container of Safeway Select > not-from-concentrate orange juice and a small carton of Mocha Mix I had > bought at the local Safeway. To their credit, Safeway had only metric on the > orange juice -- 1.89 L. Soft metric, to be sure, but at least metric only. > > On the other hand, the small Mocha Mix was marked "1 pint (473 mL)." That > is, of course, outrageous, as the pint is the U.S. pint, which has never > been legal in Canada. > > Oh, Brian Mulroney, what have you wrought? (Mulroney was the Prime Minister > who rolled back the metric regulations of the Pierre Trudeau era.) > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > >
