I can already see a problem with US products that would use USC as supplemental units. A US pint and gallon would conflict with the imperial version.
Jerry ________________________________ From: John M.. Steele <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 12:53:27 PM Subject: [USMA:43902] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the pint. Are the US brands there metric-only, or do they bother to give Imperial as supplemental information? Also, are they "round metric" sizes, or an odd size related to Customary measure? It would be nice to know for the FMI debate. --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Ken Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Ken Cooper <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:43896] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the pint. > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 12:37 PM > The vast majority of prepacked UK brands are in rounded > metric (litre) amounts. The rest, of course, are still > marked in primary metric. None of the US brands available in > the UK are marked in US pints. > > I think that it would be better if ice-cream was sold by > weight rather than volume, though. With cheaper brands, you > end up paying for volumes of air! > > > > --- On Sat, 14/3/09, Jeremiah MacGregor > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Jeremiah MacGregor > <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:43768] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the > pint. > To: "U.S. Metric Association" > <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, 14 March, 2009, 2:20 AM > > > > > > > This is how metric sizes can be introduced. Instead of > 1.42 L they could have made it 1.5 L. Are there any brands > that are metric? > > Jerry > > > > > > From: John M. Steele <[email protected]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:29:21 AM > Subject: [USMA:43707] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the > pint. > > > > Almost every brand of ice cream has downsized. > Half-gallons (2 quarts) used to be the standard large size > in the supermarket. They shrank first to 1.75 quarts, and > now many are shrinking to 1.5 quarts. The obscure compound > units, quarts, pints, fluid ounces help hide the > reduction. The metric label makes it much clearer to those > who read it (1.89 L to 1.42 L). > > > --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Remek Kocz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Remek Kocz <[email protected]> > > Subject: [USMA:43698] NPR, part 2: meddling with the > pint. > > To: "U.S. Metric Association" > <[email protected]> > > Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" > <[email protected]> > > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 9:19 PM > > Seems today is a day heavy on measurement stories on > > NPR's morning edition. > > In addition to the Arizona I-19 story going back to > miles, > > we have a story > > about the pint of premium ice-cream not being a pint > > anymore: > > > > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101689498 > > > > Haagen-Dazs will shrink their pint to 14 fl oz due to > > increasing costs. > > Make your voices heard with this story as well. > It's > > obvious that the > > imperial measurements make this kind of meddling > easier, > > since it's > > difficult to compare between ounces and pints. > > > > Please take the time to make your comments heard or > > seen--NPR is a > > nationwide forum, and it would be nice to have metric > > spotlighted there. > > > > Remek
