I've often thought that McDonalds could introduce metric sizes AND downsize their portions at the same time. The Quarter Pounder (113.5 g) could become the Big 100 (can sit alongside the Big Mac).
Where do I send McDonalds the bill for my fee? ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremiah MacGregor To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:20 AM Subject: [USMA:43768] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the pint. This is how metric sizes can be introduced. Instead of 1.42 L they could have made it 1.5 L. Are there any brands that are metric? Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: John M. Steele <jmsteele9...@sbcglobal.net> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:29:21 AM Subject: [USMA:43707] Re: NPR, part 2: meddling with the pint. Almost every brand of ice cream has downsized. Half-gallons (2 quarts) used to be the standard large size in the supermarket. They shrank first to 1.75 quarts, and now many are shrinking to 1.5 quarts. The obscure compound units, quarts, pints, fluid ounces help hide the reduction. The metric label makes it much clearer to those who read it (1.89 L to 1.42 L). --- On Wed, 3/11/09, Remek Kocz <rek...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Remek Kocz <rek...@gmail.com> > Subject: [USMA:43698] NPR, part 2: meddling with the pint. > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu> > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 9:19 PM > Seems today is a day heavy on measurement stories on > NPR's morning edition. > In addition to the Arizona I-19 story going back to miles, > we have a story > about the pint of premium ice-cream not being a pint > anymore: > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101689498 > > Haagen-Dazs will shrink their pint to 14 fl oz due to > increasing costs. > Make your voices heard with this story as well. It's > obvious that the > imperial measurements make this kind of meddling easier, > since it's > difficult to compare between ounces and pints. > > Please take the time to make your comments heard or > seen--NPR is a > nationwide forum, and it would be nice to have metric > spotlighted there. > > Remek
