29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
1:59 p.m.
On 29/06/07, Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
People don't want to be bothered to convert their
recipes into units of
kilograms and liters, among other excuses. The power of resistance to
change should seem especially obvious to anyone that reads this mailing
list. :)
Well, there /is/ that - but of course, nobody has to. Just about every
domestic measuring device in my life is calibrated in imperial down
one side and metric down the other. For most of my life, recipe books
have come in both units. My scales aren't, but that's because they're
Norwegian; all the Continental countries have been metric for
centuries, as far as I know.
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