The retailer who purchases the stuff has to sell as it reaches him. It is the factory packaging that got to get instructions. 440g is again defeating the purpose: it could be 250g, 500g or 1 kg packs that people must be encouraged.
Brij<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [USMA:24272] M&M's
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:36:12 -0500
2002-12-29
Today I bought a regular bag (yellow) of M&M's with peanuts. The package contains 10 % more than the standard bag. The amount stated is 15.40 OZ 436.6 g. Again I weighed in the bag and found it to be 442 g. This bag could easily been declared as 440 g. That is a standard 400 g with 10 % more or 440 g.
Mars can easily mark the SI in rational numbers, but for some reason continues to give us SI with funny numbers.
John
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