[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Here in the UK we've had butter in multiples of 250 g >for 20 years or more; Ireland still sells it on 227 g >packs (sometimes the same brand). Whether this is a >requirement of Irish law, I don't not know
Ireland has a 1973 order stating permitted metric and imperial sizes for butter. As far as I know, the butter sizes have not been changed since then. http://193.120.124.98/ZZSI28Y1973.html >(UK law demand rational metric sizes). Yes. http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1988/Uksi_19882040_en_2.htm
