Comments by "gingerBill" (@GingerGames) on "Ask Adam: Brits dumping metric? Why is white bread white? Best cookware for the car? (PODCAST E12)" video.

  1. I'm from the UK and there is something most people don't really realize: everything might be written in metric but it's amazing how many things are still actually in imperial measurements. You'll still see packaging that says things like: 57g (2 oz), 115g (~4 oz), 200g (7 oz, most tins), 227g (8 oz), 340g (12 oz), 454g (16 oz), and so on. The factories still use all of the old measurements but have just changed the packaging instead (which is the entire legal point). There is also a weird issue in that eggs are defined in effectively imperial masses too still, with a good example that if you crack the contents of a large egg on to a scale, it will weigh ~57g (2 oz). Another good example of a weird place where imperial is pretending to be metric are recipes. You'll see weird amounts such as 225g, or 115g, or 450mL or whatever, and then you clearly know that this was originally an imperial recipe. Whilst if you read recipes from "The Continent", they will use more "round" numbers in metric. A unit system is a language in itself and finding what works takes a long time. To be clear, I am not suggesting we should at all go back to the imperial system legally (far from it), just that things never actually changed in many places, only their legal value. And that even if more people think in metric nowadays, the things they buy are only legally metric.
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  2.  @Adscam  huh? How did you get that irrelevant non-sequiter from my comment? I was just showing the oddities of sizes in the UK which imperial masquerading as metric.
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