"Leon" wrote in message
Actually, volume and weight is where the metric system really shines.

Depends on where you live. Up here in the great white north, metric is and
has been invading most everything. That is, except for the food that we
export up from the US. And, considering that 90% of our food comes from the
US, it's a wonder we don't all starve deciding how to allocated all those
pounds and quarts of food.