[HPFGU-OTChatter] Back to Puddings: A Recipe

[Kathryn Cawte]

 Stacie said -

:). Funnily enough, I remember being so excited in the fifth grade learning 
about the metric system since this would be the new measuring system for the

States - whatever happened to that (1970's era)? I think Burma is the only 
other non-metric country left in this world. 

<snipped one delicious sounding recipe) 

lol - yeah right (insert significant amount of sarcasm there)
Technically the UK is metric (and it's illegal to give prominance to
imperial measurements over metric when selling stuff, but OK to use both)
but I couldn't tell you how much I weigh in kilos or begin to guess at my
height in metres. I estimate distances in feet (or miles), my dad's car
takes gallons of fuel and travels in mph. I buy stuff from the deli in
quarters and halves (of a pound). etc etc. And I'm 26 - officially we've
been using the metric system my entire life and I *never* learnt the
imperial stuff at school - but as far as I'm concerned (with the exception
of HomeEc) you use metric for academic purposes and imperial for everything
else.

Oddly I don't think it odd to calculate in feet and inches but when I have
to calculate pounds, shillings and pence while reading documents it makes my
head hurt.

K