I had a similar situation in the UK. The packaging from a pizza chain suggested that if you wanted to reheat your pizza, you should heat it to 500°. My cooker only goes up to 240°C!
(The pizza chain packaging did not specify °C or °F cookers, hot water devices etc have been in °C in the UK since the 1970s). From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Payne Sent: 11 April 2014 19:56 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53708] Re: Starbucks in Asia I remember asking the employee why Fluid Ounces? But I was asking the wrong person, they would not know or most likely even understand. Ill be back in SA in May, Ill check when Im there and see if the same situation exists. This is similar to Subway using inches for the size of sandwiches worldwide, except Starbucks is not using fluid ounces but the exact conversion. Mike Payne On 11 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]> wrote: Unless the law in SA has changed, the use of floz is illegal there. When they went metric, it was illegal to sell any measuring device that had imperial units on it. (Same as Australia). Likewise the press was forbidden to use imperial units. For the record, US floz are slightly larger than Imperial floz, but there are 16 US floz in a US pint, while there are 20 imperial floz in an imperial pint. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 11 April 2014 18:36 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53706] Re: Starbucks in Asia The fl. oz. in South Africa would have been imperial anyway, which are quite a different quantity from US fl.oz., so this is almost fraudulent in giving US measures (without identifying them as such) to a country that has never ever used them. When will the US show at least a modicum of respect to other nations and their customs and standards when doing business in such countries? John F-L From: Michael Payne <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 1:17 PM To: U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:53705] Starbucks in Asia I found the following signboard menu at Starbucks in both China and Singapore. Beverage sizes listed as 354 ml, 473 ml, and 591 ml. Obviously extremely precise conversions of the US fluid ounces. Makes me question the intelligence of whoever authorises these signs. I remember South Africa on my last trip there actually had the quantities in fluid ounces, which South Africa as a totally metric country does not use. Mike Payne <image001.jpg> Sent from Mike's iPhone No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/> Version: 2014.0.4355 / Virus Database: 3882/7330 - Release Date: 04/11/14
