On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:59:39 -0700 (PDT), pat wrote:

> blake murphy wrote:
>>>US Federal law (the FPLA, for example) forbids metric-only labels
>>i think it's more that they require imperial measurements, not that they're
>>forbidding metric.
>
> Yes. Mandating something has the effect as forbidding the absence of
> it.

since when? i just looked at a half-dozen random items in my fridge and
they had both imperial and metric units on them.

(liquor and wine seem to be exclusively labeled in liters, but god knows
the rationale for that.)

your pal,
blake