Clearly another attempt to make metric look ridiculous and USC look sane and sensible. USC stands for rational quantities; SI stands for stupid broken values; that is what people must be made to believe. I think the stuff is sent to the USA in bulk and packed there in rational ifp and ridiculous metric sizes. Death to soft metric. Mars products are packed here in rational metric quantities of 100, 125, 150 ang 300 g packs.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: kilopascal To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Tuesday, 2002-11-19 5:49 Subject: [USMA:23478] M&M's 2002-11-18 The M&M's package I mentioned the other day, but could not remember the exact size. Well, I got another package and the label shows: NET WT 11.0 OZ 311.9 g I find it very difficult to believe that they are able to be package this product to such a precise weight. I have a scale and weighed a few and the mass was between 2.5 to 3.5 g on the average. These are the almond variety. It sure must cost a fortune to fill a bag, trying to pick the right combination to get exactly 311.9 g. >From the Mars website, it shows these products are sold in Europe. Can anyone in Europe check out these products and let us know how they are packaged. What is the size declaration on the label? John
