A pound is equivalent to 454g, or alternatively an ounce is just a little bit over 28g.
In Canada, we are completely schizophrenic, we use both. Supermarket flyers use pounds, as well as the price displays for produce and meat. However, at the checkout till, the slips are in kilo. This make it look cheaper! Deli meat is listed as per 100g which makes it even look cheaper. The only food store that display produce and meat in kg is Costco - an American based store! Go figure....
When you talk to somebody about your weight, it is in pounds, however at the doctor's office it is kg. The same goes for one's length, in general parlance it is feet and inches - in official parlance it is cm.
In Quebec, they use use the decimal comma as in continental Europe, whereas in the rest of Canada we use the decimal point.
Although all our road signs are in km, when one asks somebody about the distance between two places it is either miles, or worse minutes (?????).
The size of a house is in square feet - nobody would understand if one talks about square meter. The same goes for acres, against hectares!
I suppose some of it has to do with our proximity to the United States. My highly controversial point of view is that it is because Canadians are secretly wannabe Americans - the Canadian psyche is built on the notion that we are not American!
In Canada, we are completely schizophrenic, we use both. Supermarket flyers use pounds, as well as the price displays for produce and meat. However, at the checkout till, the slips are in kilo. This make it look cheaper! Deli meat is listed as per 100g which makes it even look cheaper. The only food store that display produce and meat in kg is Costco - an American based store! Go figure....
When you talk to somebody about your weight, it is in pounds, however at the doctor's office it is kg. The same goes for one's length, in general parlance it is feet and inches - in official parlance it is cm.
In Quebec, they use use the decimal comma as in continental Europe, whereas in the rest of Canada we use the decimal point.
Although all our road signs are in km, when one asks somebody about the distance between two places it is either miles, or worse minutes (?????).
The size of a house is in square feet - nobody would understand if one talks about square meter. The same goes for acres, against hectares!
I suppose some of it has to do with our proximity to the United States. My highly controversial point of view is that it is because Canadians are secretly wannabe Americans - the Canadian psyche is built on the notion that we are not American!
