[Sca-cooks] stupid (OT, OOP) comment (was Re: Giant butt)
Daniel Myers
edouard at medievalcookery.com
Tue Sep 30 18:41:29 PDT 2003
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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