[USMA:52850] Re: FAGE lowfat yogurt new 1000g container.

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 08:51:19 -0700

I guess it shows how stupid ad writers are. I have actually written letters to vitamin companies about 1000 mg sizes. I have to be polite, but I honestly can't figure out why they never learned that 1000 mg is the same as one gram.
 
Mark

----- Original Message -----
From: James Frysinger <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, June 3, 2013 10:19 am
Subject: [USMA:52849] Re: FAGE lowfat yogurt new 1000g container.
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>

> Keep marketing principles in mind. The number 1000 is larger
> than the
> number 1. So 1000 g probably "sounds" larger (at least to an ad
> writer)
> than 1 kg.
>
> Jim
> On 2013-06-03 10:07, Paul Trusten wrote:
> > Good point about 1 kg! Y'all may not believe this, but the
> marketers of
> > this product either may not be aware that there are 1000 g in
> 1 kg, or
> > they may not trust their customers to know. I once had a PHARMACY
> > TECHNICIAN ask me how many milligrams there are in a gram!
> >
> > I sense that basic knowledge of the simple internal workings
> of the
> > metric system are tacitly discouraged in American society. We
> don't have
> > very much metric education at all, except perhaps the kind
> that treats
> > metric as a measurement anomaly and discounts its importance.
> >
> > Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist
> > Vice President
> > U.S. Metric Association, Inc.
> > Midland, Texas USA
> > www.metric.org <http://www.metric.org>
> > +1(432)528-7724
> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:50, [email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Of course, this makes me wonder why they didn't just put 1 kg.
> >>
> >> Ezra
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
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> >> *From: *[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>> *To: *"U.S. Metric
> Association" <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >> *Sent: *Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:53:21 PM
> >> *Subject: *[USMA:52846] Re: FAGE lowfat yogurt new 1000g container.
> >>
> >> Attached image shows FAGE Greek Yogurt 1000g container.
> >>
> >> David Pearl MetricPioneer.com <http://MetricPioneer.com>
> 503-428-4917
> >>
> >> ----- Message from [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> ---------
> >>      Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 22:04:28 -0700
> >>      From: Edward Schlesinger
> <[email protected]>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >> Reply-To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>   Subject: [USMA:52845] FAGE lowfat yogurt new
> 1000g container.
> >>        To: "U.S. Metric
> Association" <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Hello everyone. The other day while I went grocery shopping
> I discovered
> >> > FAGE (pronouced fayeh) brand yogurt sold in 1000g (35.3 oz)
> container>> > instead of 32 oz or 680g (24oz) of the other
> brands of yogurt. This is
> >> > something because usually dairy products in California are
> sold in USC
> >> > amounts by California Weights and Measures guidelines. I do
> not know if
> >> > there has been a change in milk shall be sold in pints,
> quarts, gallon,
> >> > guidelines.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Sincerely,
> >> > Edward B.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- End message from [email protected]
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> >>
> >>
> >>
>

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