Butter in Canada: Why 454g?

[August1991]

I recommend that we move to the metric system.

250g or 500g.

400g is possibly a good measure - close to 454g.

We now use 2 litres for milk.

[Nefarious Banana]

Metric time should also be considered . . . 100 minute hours, 10 day weeks, 100 month years, etc.

Use oleo margarine . . . it'll make you healthier and you can lube up those squeeky U-joints with it too.

[CdnFox]

1 hour ago, August1991 said:

I recommend that we move to the metric system.

250g or 500g.

400g is possibly a good measure - close to 454g.

We now use 2 litres for milk.

Why are you getting weirder? Go the other way.

[August1991]

5 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Why are you getting weirder? Go the other way.

Huh? Butter at 400g (instead of 454g) would allow domestic milk producers to look European.

And exclude Americans.

 

[CdnFox]

54 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Huh? Butter at 400g (instead of 454g) would allow domestic milk producers to look European.

And exclude Americans.

having weird and irrelevant numbers rather than rounded ones makes us look MORE european not less. 

And the americans will be excluded either way, they're still trying to figure out how many meters in a quart. 

 

[August1991]

9 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

having weird and irrelevant numbers rather than rounded ones makes us look MORE european not less. 

And the americans will be excluded either way, they're still trying to figure out how many meters in a quart. 

 

Agreed.

Butter at 400g would look European - and appear to lower the price for a pound.

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BTW: All foreigners are excluded from dairy sales in Canada. 

[CdnFox]

41 minutes ago, August1991 said:

Agreed.

Butter at 400g would look European - and appear to lower the price for a pound.

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BTW: All foreigners are excluded from dairy sales in Canada. 

I swear to god i'm going to beat you with a cow. 

[Legato]

8 hours ago, CdnFox said:

I swear to god i'm going to beat you with a cow. 

Would that be a 85 stone 10 lbs cow? or one in kellograms.

[Moonbox]

Can we just start downvoting these threads and not responding?  

Unintentionally, August is helping us find common ground.  All of us are just "WTF?"ing his pointless threads.  

[Michael Hardner]

1 minute ago, Moonbox said:

 

Unintentionally, August is helping us find common ground.  All of us are just "WTF?"ing his pointless threads.  

Still, we get along.

[CdnFox]

43 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

Still, we get along.

Herd that before

46 minutes ago, Moonbox said:

Can we just start downvoting these threads and not responding?  

Unintentionally, August is helping us find common ground.  All of us are just "WTF?"ing his pointless threads.  

Considering the thread, we could report him to the steer-ing committee.  bwaahhahaahha!!

(don't look at me like that, you snickered i know you did. )

[Legato]

5 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

Herd that before

Considering the thread, we could report him to the steer-ing committee.  bwaahhahaahha!!

(don't look at me like that, you snickered i know you did. )

Bull.

[herbie]

Jesus!

Because all the production machinery is made in the USA.
That's the ONLY reason

Just like 284ml tin cans and 355 & 509 ml bottles.

Buils an aluminum can factory in Canada, create jobs and demand and to hell with Trumps tariffs

 

 

 

[August1991]

On 3/17/2026 at 10:30 AM, Legato said:

Would that be a 85 stone 10 lbs cow? or one in kellograms.

I'm fat but I'm not 85 stone -fergawdsakes.

We sell milk in Canada in litres.

But we still butter by the pound.

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I recommend that we sell butter by 250g -or better, by 400g.

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, August1991 said:

I'm fat but I'm not 85 stone -fergawdsakes.

You might be 85 METRIC stones?  that's 8500 kilogravel

Edited March 19 by CdnFox

[Barquentine]

On 3/17/2026 at 5:12 PM, herbie said:

Buils an aluminum can factory in Canada, create jobs

There are some but not enough. Economics of scale, I guess.

[WestCanMan]

On 3/16/2026 at 6:55 PM, August1991 said:

I recommend that we move to the metric system.

250g or 500g.

400g is possibly a good measure - close to 454g.

We now use 2 litres for milk.

We are bimeasural in Canada. We go both ways.

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TBH the reason it's like that is because British food sucks, so when people were faced with the choice between using British and American recipes, we went with American ones.

Plus our grandmothers all handed down recipes using imperial measurements, and we don't F with grandma's recipes, ya hear? A rolling pin will fly outta the grave if we mess up her butter tart recipe during the Christmas holidays. 

When was the last time you saw a recipe call for 200g of butter? Right on the outside of the pkg it shows you where to slice it for a 1/4 cup, half cup, etc.

The quickest way to lose an election is to get into women's kitchens and mess things up.

[cougar]

On 3/16/2026 at 6:55 PM, August1991 said:

I recommend that we move to the metric system.

250g or 500g.

400g is possibly a good measure - close to 454g.

We now use 2 litres for milk.

They use 454g , 247g, 315g and the likes, so you have no chance to figure out what is less expensive per 100g, unless you  read fine print or carry a calculator.

Same with bags of chips and anything else. 

[herbie]

As far as butter thing goes, the machinery has probably been in constant use since the 1950s - 1960s

Think about it ENJUNN-EARS how much wear is butter gonna cause to machines? Maybe when they need to replace them in 2226 we'll have 500g bricks. Hell, the Yanks might even figure out metric by then.

[August1991]

On 3/19/2026 at 8:58 PM, herbie said:

As far as butter thing goes, the machinery has probably been in constant use since the 1950s - 1960s

Think about it ENJUNN-EARS how much wear is butter gonna cause to machines? Maybe when they need to replace them in 2226 we'll have 500g bricks. Hell, the Yanks might even figure out metric by then.

ENJUNN-EARS?

In Canada, we  sell milk by the litre.

But we sell butter by the pound. Why?

[herbie]

We are we are the Engineers, we can we can drink forty beers..

When they moved from glass quart bottles, they made the coated paper cartons here.SaBe as milk bags (that never caught on in BC)

Bacon was something that went from pounds to 500g - at least until they shrinkflated it to 375g
Need an example of a total mishmosh? Tires! Inches diameter, mm width, oercentage sidewal. 

My last physical the nurse recorded ny weith in kilos then without even blinking told me in pounds.... same qith my height. I wanted to ask her Och! Hoiw many stone is that?