John VanSickle wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I must say, having spent another couple weeks in Europe, metric 
>> measurements for food and drink no longer seem awkward to me. :-)
> 
> One week of physics class cured me of all distaste for the metric system.

I never disliked metric in the science classes. I actually have a better 
feel for how much a kilogram weighs than a pounds, and a better feel for 
centimeters than inches. (I even think of a "pound" as "somewhat less 
than half a kilo", when I pick up a rock or something.)

It just seemed inconvenient for everyday things like food, where it's a 
rough estimate rather than a precise measure. But that seems to have 
been simply unfamiliarity.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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