On Sunday 02 April 2006 13:15, Michael G. Koerner wrote: > This is the package from a small bag of crackers that a family member > received as a 'freebie' at a cooking show that she recently attended > here in the Appleton, WI area. The only 'Olde Englische' measures on > the entire package are 'calories' on the nutrition facts panel.
Calories aren't Olde Englische; they're pseudo-metric (originally defined in terms of grams of water, but not equal to any power of 10 times an SI unit). They were declared obsolete over a century ago because they're imprecise. The heat it takes to warm a gram of water a kelvin depends on the temperature, so there are several different values of the calorie. The OE unit of heat is the BTU, which has the same problem: the heat it takes to warm water a rankine depends on the temperature. That unit should be tossed into the rankine file ;) phma
