To all, Last year I reported about the Danish cookie manufacturer Ripensa which was acting as an ifp fifth column in metric countries. It was mentioned on the website of the Metric Martyrs. All its produce was packed and sold in hard avoirdupois and irrational metric sized tins and boxes and labelled as, for instance, NET WEIGHT 1 LB (454 g). Well, now it appears that Ripensa has lost its value for the likes of the Metric Martyrs, the UKIP and the BWMA, because, just about 30 minutes ago, I was in our supermarket and I saw a pile of their tin boxes filled with Danish cookies and the contents on all boxes was labelled as: NET WEIGHT 500 g. Nothing else! BTW, at present I see very, very little of ifp on packed goods in our supermarkets and shops.
Han Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
