[Elfsea] and now we know..

[Betsy Marshall]

The origin of this phrase!
-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Myers
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:41 PM
To: Cooks within the SCA
comment (was Re: Giant butt)


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 04:41  PM, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> Traditionally, a butt (476.91 liters) is half a tun (953.82 liters).  
> The
> 500 liter butt is modernly used in metric system countries.  And the
> Imperial butt is 108 Imp. gallons or about 490.98 liters.  By any 
> measure,
> it is Homeric consumption.

Wow!  All this time I thought people were just being silly  -  now I 
find out there really is such a thing as a metric buttload.  ;-)

- Doc


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