Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Metric vs. US/Imperial Date: 21 Oct 2026 13:57:13 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <18df0d1075e60834$2732$2693458$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <6ad3783b$0$7098$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <18df56f2b859344d$1690$25751$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11b2c82$vg3b$1@news.xmission.com> <20261018145916@news.eternal-september.org> <11b37e5$1dsuc$10@dont-email.me> <11b6fkm$2jehe$2@dont-email.me> <11b72b2$222bd$1@news1.tnib.de> <11ba09b$3p0ft$10@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net A34AXo+X0UN9BaPLwJs2HAh58EOcQ3u/uPZogR1lLfPi8gYuep Cancel-Lock: sha1:/cKoamEiuU7Nh6C5M5JRYDZRZ+U= sha256:4HBmMo4w62sJ9wqmczNKuwwYW4EDIlenLGGIO+GyxFU= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:94489 On Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:22:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> The Irish must be catering to the Americans. The Kerrygold butter box >> says 4 8 ounce sticks with the grams in parens. > > Expensive way to buy butter. How do you buy it? Walmart shows $9.27 for 16 oz in sticks, $5.56 for an 8 oz tub. Tub butter is suspect in the US. If you're not careful it's adulterated with canola if not pure margarine. When I was a kid margarine came in a sturdy plastic bag in its natural white color, The was a small capsule of yellow die that had to be kneaded in to make it look like butter.