On Saturday 24 May 2008 17:48, Martin Vlietstra wrote: > Getting back to your tomatoes, firstly has Congress decreed how tomatoes > may be sold? If not, has your state legislature made any such decree? If > not, has your city made any such decree? In the United Kingdom, such > legislation is passed by Parliament - all that the EU has decreed is that > if products are sold by reference to measurement, then metric units shall > be sold. Thus, pizza is priced by the slice in the UK and in Germany, but > in Italy it priced by the kilogram.
I don't know if any state law says that tomatoes may be sold by the pint. I do know that, if a package of groceries is labeled in pints and the FPLA applies, it must also be labeled in metric. Pierre
