does it really matter

I agree it is tripe, but, at the end of the day we'll still be able to buy a half dozen or dozen eggs they'll just have the weight on them

I agree it is tripe, but, at the end of the day we'll still be able to buy a half dozen or dozen eggs they'll just have the weight on them

Do you seriously think rural french, greek or italian farmers will sell by the Kg?...

once again, its all aimed at making the UK bow and scrape

All you really want to know is the quantity....or logically both quantity and weight!

There was also anger that the move was hidden in 170 pages of amendments tacked on to the European Parliament's original proposals.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... z0sC24dnn7

The Europeans already sell by the Kg



You can tell you haven't done the shopping in your house for a while then Packets of bread rolls, cakes etc already have quantity and weight on them



Well all I can say is they should read everything before they agree to anything

You can tell you haven't done the shopping in your house for a while then

Go online set up an account with your favourite supermarket select all your usual stuff (Sizes quantity etc) save it as your shopping list.

Set the delivery time for when SWMBO is out but you are home and hey presto it's delivered you say to SWMBO "While you were out I did the shopping" instant brownie points

I only buy meat and vegetables at Butchers and Greengrocers. When a green grocer told me he would only be using SI units in future I told him I wanted 3.178kg of potatoes, 454g of apples and as he sold milk I would have 568ml.
We now agree that 3.178kg can have the nickname "Half a stone".
454g is infomally known as "a pound" and 568ml is requested as a "pint".

I notice that fast food chains sell Burgers singly and they are known as "Quarter Pounders" - will they soon be "113.5 grammers" due to the clowns in Brussels.

I do notice that younger passengers say to me - "it's about 200 meters" and older ones will say "Its about 200 yards". Strangely all speak in "Miles" for longer distances. Funniest of all, in meters, yards or miles they are always wrong, vastly under-estimating or wildly over-estimating.

As to eggs, I along with many others will continue to order and buy them in multiples of 6 (half dozen), 12 (dozen), and occaisionally by the 30 (Two and a half dozen or more likely Tray). If the shopkeeper then wants to weigh them should I ask for them to be weighed without the wraps?

Of course in the US it is confusing that unlike our 20 fluid ounce pint, theirs is 16 fluid ounces. This means our (imperial) gallon weighs Ten pounds (in water) as a "Pint of water weighs a pint and a quarter" as an American pint weighs a pound - their gallon is only Eight pounds. As a result when price per gallon is quoted in the US it reflects a unit that is only 80% of ours.