I'm in Sweden this week -- specifically, in Kista, which is a district
of Stockholm. The purpose of this trip is to represent the U.S. National
Committee (of ANSI) at IEC/TC 1 and TC 25 working group meetings. But
that's another story.
McDonald's apparently has Sweden surrounded! I went into one tonight,
not to eat but to see what the menu looked like. You know that classic
sandwich of theirs, the patty of which cooks down to about 100 g in
mass? Yep, they misname it here, too. It's called "QP med ost" on the
posted menu. But they don't hide the significance of the QP very well.
On their website
http://www.mcdonalds.se/se/maten/menyer/big_mac_meny.html
they say [skim the Swedish till you see something you recognize]:
QP
När du är sugen på något speciellt så vet du att det är Quarter Pounder
du är ute efter. Du äter den förslagsvis tillsammans med våra
världsberömda pommes frites och valfri dryck.
Men glöm inte att du också alltid kan välja bland våra andra tillbehör
till din meny!
Maybe they just aren't allowed to post non-SI units on menu displays.
A couple of days ago I got a cheeseburger from Max, a local competing
hamburger joint. The cup I was given for my beverage had a line about 2
cm below the rim and that was labeled "0,4 L". A line about halfway down
probably represented 0.2 L. But almost all the cafe and bar signs for
beverages here are in centiliters (cl).
I did a little shopping at Clas Ohlson and, yes, I did purchase some
measuring spoons and a non-electronic meat thermometer -- marked
entirely in metric, of course!
Jim
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James R. Frysinger
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