On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 12:13, David King wrote:
> My comments below in the text:
...
> As far as I can tell, ALL pre-packaged goods are metric only, at least
> the ones I have in my kitchen and those I have seen in the shops. It has
> been this way for many years, in fact, I can remember as a child many
> years ago seeing packaged goods in metric, and I think it was metric
> only or predominantly metric only then. I never see dual markings with
> metric and imperial for food products. I do see dual measures sometimes
> for bathroom things like shower gel.

And it should be added that almost always when this happens it is US floozies 
that are shown - but rarely identified as such.


-- 
Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk

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