> On 9/9/2009 6:36 PM Upscale spake thus:
>
> >>> of the food I buy here in the U.S. comes from Canada. I buy most of my
> >>> food at Traitor Joe's, and it's surprising how much stuff says "product
> >>> of Canada".
>
> >> When you see Canadian grown food, is it measured in metric? Your US food
> >> comes here in quarts, pints, pounds and ounces.
>
> > Nope; typical packaging. F'rinstance, some crackers I regularly buy:
> > "Wheat Crisps"; 9 oz. (255 g.). Customary units first, pretend units > > second.
>
> I've started referring to them as "real people units". As in when someone
> tells me "that's about 90 cm tall", my response is, "what is that in
> real-people units?"
So, the 95% or so of the world's population who would say 90cm are not real people????
Luigi