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huhtenbergyesterday at 1:45 PM0 repliesview on HN

Canada is even weirder.

After switching to the metric system ('70-80s) some things are still measures in imperial units. If you slice some ham at a counter in a grocery store, it's in grams. You then turn around and get a pound of apples and a gallon of milk. Nuts are in grams, and soda is in liters. Also the body weight tends to be in pounds. Tools are both metric and imperial. Speeds and distances though, thank god, are metric.

All this is just kinda there and everyone's OK with it, but it is an epic mess if you think about it.