• shawwnzy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They use metricification as an excuse to shrink packages in Canada a ton.

    Bacon, butter and a ton of other products used to always come in pounds, labeled as 454 gram packages. Lately they’ve all shrunk to 400 or 350 gram packages.

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      9 months ago

      Yep the progress is 500g -> 1lb (454g) -> 400g or

      20 US fl oz (591mL) -> 500mL -> 16 US fl oz (473mL) -> 400 mL -> 12 US fl oz (355mL), and so on and so forth