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How Canadians measure

Stopsignhank

Stopsignhank

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I saw this on Reddit and thought of all the Canadians that frequent this board. According to the responses this is accurate.

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It all depends on age. Those of us who are older will remember US measurements and also know of the metric system. Younger people will know the metric system far more.

Also, the mass section is missing food. It is usually advertised here in price per pound with metric in small print.
 
I'm a bit of special case, because I moved to Canada from Europe after college, so I'm all metric, and the only part that's true is "cooking" - I didn't cook as a kid or in college, and all the ovens and grills I've used in Canada were in F, so what you gonna do...
 
iCyborg said:
I'm a bit of special case, because I moved to Canada from Europe after college, so I'm all metric, and the only part that's true is "cooking" - I didn't cook as a kid or in college, and all the ovens and grills I've used in Canada were in F, so what you gonna do...
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Those must be ancient appliances.
 
Well, my building is 20 years old, so I assume the oven is from that time. As long as it works fine, I'm not buying a new one.

But e.g. a quick search: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/...yer-convection-toaster-oven-0439587p.html#srp
It's a new toaster oven, and only F. You can check others, almost all have F only.
I can't find definite examples for conventional ovens since they tend to be digital, and while the images are in F, it might be selectable C/F, but, for example, mine is digital with no option for C. I've looked 🙂
Stuff like car dashboards can't be legally in mph (only), I'm guessing it's not mandatory for everything, and stuff from US will be in F.
 
Hey...um...... guys I'm gonna go ahead and let you in on the secret. I think the chart was just a joke and not meant to be taken seriously..........
 
How strict are you with booze measures in the pub there? Its proper serious business here if you short measure people, you're likely to get fined in the thousands and get shut down. And its pretty rigorously enforced as well!
 
i agree with @brianmanahan C is not granular enough. Having worked in both metric and standard units in a job where it matters a great deal.

my truck is from Canada, it averages fuel mileage over 62 miles, ( 100 km) and the speedo goes to 200. it's hard to read a 1 mph difference, which is around the width of the indicator. the US one goes to 100 and has a separate scale for kph printed on it.
 
The chart brings back memories. In the 80's when the metric conversion took place in Agriculture the Ag-Canada recommends, a roughly 100 page soft covered book published a conversion chart. When I visited a research station they would ask me to take a case of them to get to farmers. In those days I ran a lot of research trials . You guessed it. The conversion chart was bad. The panicked call came to bring back the books.
 
herm0016 said:
i agree with @brianmanahan C is not granular enough. Having worked in both metric and standard units in a job where it matters a great deal.

my truck is from Canada, it averages fuel mileage over 62 miles, ( 100 km) and the speedo goes to 200. it's hard to read a 1 mph difference, which is around the width of the indicator. the US one goes to 100 and has a separate scale for kph printed on it.
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Eh? Your truck measures speed in °C?
 
paragraph breaks are so hard to understand. the speedo is half the sweep distance per mph as the US version, making it harder to read at a glance.
 
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