Back to Puddings: A Recipe

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at b...> 
wrote:
>  
>  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

Annemehr:
I'm surprised!  I'm American, but when I was 11 we lived a year 
('71-'72) in Abingdon, and it was metric everywhere!  I know the road 
signs and speedometer, etc. were in km, and I'm pretty sure the food 
packages were g & ml.  The money seemed to be newly gone metric also, 
and they were minting new coins, but there was still plenty of "old 
money" about -- like those really huge 2p pieces, I remember those.  
Coming from the completely Imperial US, I don't remember it as being 
particularly difficult to adjust to, either.  Wonder what happened?

SPEAKING of Abingdon -- did you guys move it or something?  I'm sure I 
remember letters from the States being addressed to me at "Abingdon, 
Berkshire, England" but when I tried to look up any news on the BBC 
site, they have it in Oxfordshire.  Am I going nuts?  Or getting old 
(sheesh, I'm only 42 until July)?

Annemehr
dreaming of taking her kids to Britain for a nice long tour some 
day...