Pretty much the same here. Most of food is owned by American conglomerates so
they just change the labels. The standard sizes are really all pounds except
for liquids like milk. Same with construction materials, yes. Foot intervals
rather than half metre. They claims it's for backwards compatibility but that's
nonsense. Annoying.
But loose materials and fuel are metric, distance too.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 05/11/2010, at 1:03 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Come come, you need to get with the programme - over here construction
> materials and groceries industries have been metricated for decades. Timber
> is always sold in metric units - 2.4 metres long. And groceries are almost
> always in 227 and 454 gram packs, milk in 568ml bottles. ;-)
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