I was shocked when I went to the shop this morning for a bottle of MILK

jon81uk

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

I'm still buying 4pint bottles of milk, nothing really changed other than it has both imperial and metric measurements on the pack.

Also sausages are sold in 454g (1lb) packets, jam in 454g (1lb) or 340g(3/4lb) jars, coffee often in 227g (1/2lb) bags and many more similar things. We still use imperial pack sizes even if the writing on the pack is in metric.

p00hsticks

jon81uk said:

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

Also sausages are sold in 454g (1lb) packets, jam in 454g (1lb) or 340g(3/4lb) jars, coffee often in 227g (1/2lb) bags and many more similar things. We still use imperial pack sizes even if the writing on the pack is in metric.

I think far more now is metric - looking round our household just now for things to hand we have fizzy pop in 2 litre bottles, spreadable butter in 500g packs, ice-cream in litres, coffee in 300g jars etc..... (and our jam form LIDL is in a 340g jar). I confess I never look at the weight of sausages - just buy packs of 6, 8 or 10 depending on how many I need.

As far as I can see all that's going to happen if the government waste any time pursuing this is that manufacturers will have to (or being given the choice to) go back and include imperial weights and meaasures as well as metric ones on their labels - they're not going to actually alter the package quantities in which they sell things, in the same way that they didn't when told to switch from imperial to metric.  

jon81uk

p00hsticks said:

jon81uk said:

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

Also sausages are sold in 454g (1lb) packets, jam in 454g (1lb) or 340g(3/4lb) jars, coffee often in 227g (1/2lb) bags and many more similar things. We still use imperial pack sizes even if the writing on the pack is in metric.

I think far more now is metric - looking round our household just now for things to hand we have fizzy pop in 2 litre bottles, spreadable butter in 500g packs, ice-cream in litres, coffee in 300g jars etc.....

As far as I can see all that's going to happen if the government waste any time pursuing this is that manufacturers will have to (or being given the choice to) include imperial weights and meaasures as well as metric ones on their labels - they're not going to actually alter the package quantities in which they sell things, in the same way that they didn't when told to switch from imperial to metric.  

Oh yes what the government is saying isn't going to change anything at all.

Its Shrinkflation that will alter the pack sizes.

elsien

As far as metric goes, it doesn’t bother me for shopping although a lot of my recipes are in lb and ounces.
Height and weight need to be in real money. Telling me I weigh x kg is meaningless. 

njm123

p00hsticks said:

jon81uk said:

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

Also sausages are sold in 454g (1lb) packets, jam in 454g (1lb) or 340g(3/4lb) jars, coffee often in 227g (1/2lb) bags and many more similar things. We still use imperial pack sizes even if the writing on the pack is in metric.

I think far more now is metric - looking round our household just now for things to hand we have fizzy pop in 2 litre bottles, spreadable butter in 500g packs, ice-cream in litres, coffee in 300g jars etc..... (and our jam form LIDL is in a 340g jar). I confess I never look at the weight of sausages - just buy packs of 6, 8 or 10 depending on how many I need.

As far as I can see all that's going to happen if the government waste any time pursuing this is that manufacturers will have to (or being given the choice to) go back and include imperial weights and meaasures as well as metric ones on their labels - they're not going to actually alter the package quantities in which they sell things, in the same way that they didn't when told to switch from imperial to metric.  

The Government will waste time on this, because it appeals to a section of their voters.  Whilst being oblivious to the obvious inflationary pressures it adds to the system - much like a lot of Government policies, you could think they had a large debt to inflate away.

It's only effects for most people will be to give producers an excuse to further inflate prices due a requirement for new labelling and resizing of some packets (Shrinkflation or adjusting prices upwards more than necessary if larger packets are introduced). 

p00hsticks

njm123 said:

p00hsticks said:

jon81uk said:

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

Also sausages are sold in 454g (1lb) packets, jam in 454g (1lb) or 340g(3/4lb) jars, coffee often in 227g (1/2lb) bags and many more similar things. We still use imperial pack sizes even if the writing on the pack is in metric.

I think far more now is metric - looking round our household just now for things to hand we have fizzy pop in 2 litre bottles, spreadable butter in 500g packs, ice-cream in litres, coffee in 300g jars etc..... (and our jam form LIDL is in a 340g jar). I confess I never look at the weight of sausages - just buy packs of 6, 8 or 10 depending on how many I need.

As far as I can see all that's going to happen if the government waste any time pursuing this is that manufacturers will have to (or being given the choice to) go back and include imperial weights and meaasures as well as metric ones on their labels - they're not going to actually alter the package quantities in which they sell things, in the same way that they didn't when told to switch from imperial to metric.  

The Government will waste time on this, because it appeals to a section of their voters. 

And I'm sure there were probably a few music lovers who enjoyed listening to Nero fiddling whilst Rome burned.....

MalMonroe

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That's a bit of a sweeping statement! Who are these old fuddy duddies of whom you speak? And also, you are so very, very wrong.

MalMonroe

olgadapolga said:

prowla said:

Apparently we're going to bring back the good old British pint!

No more of that continental litres rubbish.

Which only the older generations "get". I'm in my fifth decade on this earth and I was taught metric measurements, not imperial. I only know of imperial measurements due to my parents refusing to use "that continental rubbish". My children don't use imperial measurements at all.

Well that's not true. I'm in my 70s and I was so happy when we switched to the metric system. It's SO much easier to work with. I remember at school having to learn that stupid Imperial system. It just didn't make any sense whereas things divided into and by 10 is so much easier.  Same with money. We used to have pounds, shillings and pence. SO difficult to get a handle on. I love that 'continental rubbish'. My daughter is in her 50s and she's never known anything but decimalisation. It makes far more sense. 

MalMonroe

Descrabled said:

Imperial measures

We're still buying a 1lb jar of jam and often sausages in 1lb packaging.

Who can envisage the size of a gram or the length of a mm.

We still compare weight to 2lb bag of sugar even though it's now 10% heavier.

That may be true but packages are supposed to also have the metric weights on them. It's the law, "You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres) when selling packaged or loose goods in England, Scotland or Wales". Different in N.I. though. 

Coffeekup

Kim_kim said:

tizerbelle said:

Do you really think it tastes better/different?

I'm with tizerbelle... For me it does taste different (creamier) and the consistency is different too, slightly thicker.

I live close to a row center with a Iceland, sainsburys, Morrison's and a couple of corner shops near me. The milk all taste different, sainsburys bis by far the sweetest, Morrison's tastes the most bland/watery, with the corner shops tasting quite sweet too, but its shelf life lasts no where near as long as "supermarkets"