[Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Alexa]

::evil grin:
can you imagine someone running around trying to catch
that many gerbils...

Alexa
--- Aurelia Rufinia <aureliarufinia at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ::blink::
> 
> Thats a lot of gerbils....
> 
> Aurelia
> 
> 
> --- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Tan is a Chinese measure of weight also written as
> > dan.  Modernly, it is 50 
> > kilograms (110 lbs roughly).  The older version is
> > roughly 133.3 pounds 
> > making it roughly equivalent to the European
> > quintal.
> > 
> > Bear
> > 
> > >A friend is reading recipes (I have no idea where
> > he found them) and asked
> > > what a "tan" was as a unit of measure. I told
> him
> > I'd ask those more
> > > knowledgeable than myself - although since the
> > recipe calls for a "tan of
> > > gerbils", I'm a little afraid.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hrothny
> > 
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> House Iron Maiden, Barony of Carolingia, 
> East Kingdom, Northshield Ex-Pat
> 
> "Him name is Hopkin Green Frog.  I'll find my frog."
> 
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