USC do say they are licensing a Skoda design, as well as using some of Skoda's
parts (40% is imported), so that would most likely be the reason. Even
allowing for the mods made for the US, it would make sense to not try to
convert to imperial - no gain, and potentially lots of pain, especially
All medicines are in metric so why shouldn't liquid measurement devices
be used rather than teaspoons?
Stan Doore
- Original Message -
From: James R. Frysinger j...@metricmethods.com
To: U.S. Metric Association usma@colostate.edu
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:48 PM
The article below (with citation) was on FoxNews.com. Note that it
describes the ham as being a 15 lb 6 oz ham but that the British food
buyer for Selfridges says that Every single gram will be savored
Scouting around, I found that European sources call it a 7 kg ham. I
calculate that
It should be. But the FDA proposal would allow liquid measurement devices
marked in units of teaspoons. Hence the need to comment.
The risk (as I see it) is confusion between units of teaspoons on the measuring
device and
physical (and inaccurate) teaspoons from the silverware drawer.
You might recall this childhood rhyme: Oh what a wicked web we weave
when first we practice to deceive.
Perhaps we could rephrase this as: Oh how our minds we do pervert when
first we practice to convert!
See the first few paragraphs at
