[Sca-cooks] measurement Was:Re: Sign of the Times perhaps--Dinner at Crown - cancelled

[Audrey Bergeron-Morin]

> why does the US still use the old measures, rather than metric?

Still, with everything that's been said, I still can't see why Canada could 
make the switch and not the U.S. (being Canadian myself, our close proximity 
to the United States and the fact that our parents grew up in the "old" 
system means that a lot of us think half in one system, half in the other. I 
still measure people's weights and height in imperial, and sew in imperial, 
and buy my meat in pounds instead of kilograms and my gas in litres, but I 
have no instinctive notion of how long a mile is or what a temperature is in 
Fahrenheit - well, except for an oven temperature, which means nothing in 
Celsius...)

But yes, officially, we're all in metric. You just learn to convert in your 
head for most things... IMO the metric system makes much more sense, but 
once you learn to do things in one system, it's hard to relearn in the other 
because you lose that "instinctive" notion of how much means one unit. I 
still think it's very weird that they make a 5/8 seam equal to 15mm, when in 
fact it's closer to 14mm... I guess the same could be said with cooking 
measures.