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[Michael R Dolbear]

> From: Jill Tallman <lettuce_in_fl at yahoo.com>
> Date: 24 May 2007 16:21

> I *know* how much a pound is, but a kilogram? No clue. I can *see* with
my calibrated eyeball, an inch, foot and yard. Intellectually, I know that
a meter is a tad longer than a yard, but I don't really *know* it...

I only have half kilos in my head - a can of baked beans or an empty
standard wine bottle.

So two cans of baked beans ?

and a metre "is a good long yard".


Thanks for reminding me of Peg Bracken and the "I hate to cook book" series
- all recommeded, omnibus editions in print,

May not be the passage I remembered, but

" ... Few man-made things turn out to weigh a kilo either.
A large cabbage is considerably more; a large cauliflower is invairiably
less. A No. 2 can of peaches but who can remember offhand which size a No.
2 is ? And while five average bananas weigh almost exactly a kilo, it is of
no real help. Few people are that familiar with the weight of five bananas.
Finally I settled for an extra-heavy coconut (without the husk), a real
boomer, not the kind you commonly find in grocery stores or bopping
tourists on the head in tropical places. This is the closest I could come
except for a two-pound box of chocolates with an extra heavy bow.

So the kilo is basically a personal thing. It is recommended that everyone
that everyone find their own, to palnt solidly in their own head."


Little Egret ...