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It's not that crazy. Canada is metric, but meat is usually labeled in ounces in restaurants.


Some products just has it by tradition, even in the most metric parts of the world like Scandinavia we still do wheel sizes and screen sizes in inches. It's a bit weird but I assume everyone buys camera lenses in mm too out of tradition.

I was really surprised when I went to Australia and found tv's sold with centimeter diagonals.

Oz weights on steaks is not used outside North America though I'm quite sure.


Canada is sadly perverted by its proximity to the States. I would have hoped dual labelling would have eroded imperial by now but no.




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