Johnny,
Regarding your photograph of April 5th @
8.14 a.m.
''Look at this Crystal Geyser label. It's
got 1 fl.cup (240 m/l). Up till now all 1 fl. cups I've seen with frenchy
labels, have shown 2.36 di/l. Why are frenchy weights & measures so
erratic?''
Johnny, you are confusing four different
problems. The first, second, & third problems do not apply here. You've
come across the fourth problem.
FIRST PROBLEM
The Napoleon Emperor's
Republic of Europe Decadent Weights & Measures do not form a complete
system, it is therefore impossible to establish some standards.
SECOND PROBLEM
The use of the same
word for completely different numbers. Take ''milli/-'' for example. It is
supposed to mean 1/1000, & it does, & it doesn't. It can mean either
1/10, or 1/100, or 1/1000, or 1/10000. Most folks can only make sense of it
all, if they treat each N.E.R.E. standard as having no relationship with any
other N.E.R.E. standard. Although that works, it destroys the whole concept of
having any weights & measures. (Of course ''milli-'' also means 1000, but
if we go there, folks will just give up.)
THIRD PROBLEM
Different countries
have different N.E.R.E. equivalents for Common Weights & Measures. It's
not a real problem in most cases. But if people say it's a problem, then I
guess it is. For instance, some countries show 1 fl. cup as 2.37 di/l, others
as 2.36 di/l.
FOURTH PROBLEM
This is the problem
you've stumbled across. In 1968, Betty Crocker & the U.S. Commerce Dept.
in an effort to promote N.E.R.E. Weights & Measures to the U.S., published
an official government list of N.E.R.E. cooking weights & N.E.R.E. fluid
& dry measures. In it, 1 fl. cup is 2.4 di/l. Believe it or not, they were
trying to be helpful to the N.E.R.E. scheme.
1 liqM = .0625 m/l
1 liq.ssp. = 1.25
m/l
1 liq.csp. = 2.5 m/l
1 liq.tsp. = 5 m/l
1 liq.tbs. = 1.5 c/l
1 liq.oz. = 3 c/l
1 liq. jack = 6 c/l
1 liq. jill = 1.2 di/l
1
liq. cup = 2.4 di/l
1 liq.pt. = 4.8 di/l
1 liq.qt. = 9.6 di/l
1
liq.pot = 1.92 -/l
1 liq.gal. = 3.84 -/l
1 bulk pt. = 5.6 di/l
1
bulk qt. = 1.12 -/l
1 bulk pot. = 2.24 -/l
1 bulk gal. = 4.48 -/l
Johnny, the 1968 N.E.R.E. weights are @
http://www.weights-and-measures.com
@ topic:
Napoleon Emperor's Republic of Europe
Decadent Weight
bottled at the source
CRYSTAL GEYSER
natural
alpine spring water
by CG Roxane
1 fl. cup (240 m/l)
Bottled at the CG Roxane Soucre at the Mountains of Tennessee
CG
Roxane, Benton, Tennessee 37307
CHEROKEE NATIONAL FOREST
SPRING SOURCE
please recycle
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