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[Tamas]

 

[The Brain]

How high does the stone scale go? I'm asking for a katmai.

[celedhring]

Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, never seen dekagrams used everyday life before.

When I was a kid, some grocers still used the Spanish pound.

[Josquius]

As said I've never used pounds for anything. I have no concept of them.
Oddly however I always grew up using, and still do use, quarters. Which is a quarter pound though never thought of that way.

[The Larch]

Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, in Italy they use "etto" also for cold cuts, which is 100 grams.

[Maladict]

Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, never seen dekagrams used everyday life before.

When I was a kid, some grocers still used the Spanish pound.

We still use ons (ounce) and pond (pound), but they have been recalibrated for the metric system. A pond used to be rougly 480 grams and was changed to 500 grams. Ons, like the ounce, used to be a 16th of a pond (~30 grams), but is now one decagram.

[Sheilbh]

No idea about quarters. Also obvs I use imperial for human heights. So thinking about it, it's basically imperial = human size measurements, distance and things that are measured in pints and metric = everything else.

[Syt]

Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

Heh, never seen dekagrams used everyday life before.

When I was a kid, some grocers still used the Spanish pound.

We still use ons (ounce) and pond (pound), but they have been recalibrated for the metric system. A pond used to be rougly 480 grams and was changed to 500 grams. Ons, like the ounce, used to be a 16th of a pond (~30 grams), but is now one decagram.

In Germany we still used Pfund, i.e. 500 g. Mostly when buying groceries (apples, ground beef, potatoes ...). Austrians looked at me weird when I described the default 500g bag of coffee beans as "a pound".

[katmai]

How high does the stone scale go? I'm asking for a katmai.

Always looking out for me. 

[Josquius]

How high does the stone scale go? I'm asking for a katmai.

53. 53 stones is a rock.

[Zanza]

In a addition to the pound, the hundredweight ("Zentner") is used in Germany to indicate 100 pound (i.e. 50kg).

Inches are used to measure tires and screen sizes here.

[The Brain]

How high does the stone scale go? I'm asking for a katmai.

53. 53 stones is a rock.

katmai = 30 rock?

[Sheilbh]

Are pounds and inches the same everywhere?

I know there's multiple different tonnes but at the lower end is it all the same?

[celedhring]

Are pounds and inches the same everywhere?

I know there's multiple different tonnes but at the lower end is it all the same?

The pound is slightly different everywhere. But I'm not sure if the countries that still kinda use it (besides US/UK) have standardized it.

Spanish pound was 460 grs, for example.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting - apparently UK and US measurements are the same for ounces and pounds and then start diverging. So a pound is 453g here and there

This would be useful if US cookbooks didn't use cups as the measurement which can present challenges