On Sep 8, 9:51*pm, Han wrote:
notbob wrote :

On 2009-09-09, Upscale wrote:

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.

We're bound to go metric pretty soon. *After all, isn't Mexico on the
metric system. *

nb *

Metric or not, a pound is half a kilo, an ounce is 100 g or 1/1 a kilo. *At
least when I was a child. *I think now they are getting confused ... *Must
be because of the € ...

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Best regards
Han
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Een ons vlees. was 100 gram/ 500 gram 'een pond'.
My grandfather always talked about 'duim' (thumb)..I guess about an
inch.
At our house in The Netherlands, the indoor temp was always in degrees
F.
Everything else was metric.

a 100mm x 100mm x100mm cube of water weighs 1 KG and is one liter. (At
max density 4C)