SC - A weird conversion.....Now OT
Holliday, Rachel {DISC~Welwyn}
RACHEL.HOLLIDAY at roche.com
Wed Jul 21 08:18:00 PDT 1999
Nanna
I fell I have to defend my countries rather eccentric measuring practice.
Wile I was at school I was taught the metric system, weights, volumes,
distance the lot. However I was taught to cook by my mother who was taught
the old imperial system. Most of our recipes are written in the imperial
measurements. The result of this is a thoroughly confused generation of
people who were educated in metric but grew up with imperial. I don't know
that this situation is going to improve since I order good by the
once/pound/stone etc. It is true that the government has decreed that all
our fruit and fresh unpackaged produce should be sold by the kilo. However
I have not yet heard anyone asking for so many grams of cheese, it is still
done in pounds even though it is priced and sold in grams!
Rachel
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