Regarding your photograph of April 5th @ 8.14 a.m.
''Look at this Crystal Geyser label. It's got 1 fl.cup (240 m/l). Up till now all 1 fl. cups I've seen with frenchy labels, have shown 2.36 di/l. Why are frenchy weights & measures so erratic?''
Johnny, you are confusing four different problems. The first, second, & third problems do not apply here. You've come across the fourth problem.
FIRST PROBLEM
The Napoleon Emperor's Republic of Europe Decadent Weights & Measures do not form a complete system, it is therefore impossible to establish some standards.
SECOND PROBLEM
The use of the same word for completely different numbers. Take ''milli/-'' for example. It is supposed to mean 1/1000, & it does, & it doesn't. It can mean either 1/10, or 1/100, or 1/1000, or 1/10000. Most folks can only make sense of it all, if they treat each N.E.R.E. standard as having no relationship with any other N.E.R.E. standard. Although that works, it destroys the whole concept of having any weights & measures. (Of course ''milli-'' also means 1000, but if we go there, folks will just give up.)
THIRD PROBLEM
Different countries have different N.E.R.E. equivalents for Common Weights & Measures. It's not a real problem in most cases. But if people say it's a problem, then I guess it is. For instance, some countries show 1 fl. cup as 2.37 di/l, others as 2.36 di/l.
FOURTH PROBLEM
This is the problem you've stumbled across. In 1968, Betty Crocker & the U.S. Commerce Dept. in an effort to promote N.E.R.E. Weights & Measures to the U.S., published an official government list of N.E.R.E. cooking weights & N.E.R.E. fluid & dry measures. In it, 1 fl. cup is 2.4 di/l. Believe it or not, they were trying to be helpful to the N.E.R.E. scheme.
Napoleon Emperor's Republic of Europe Decadent Weight
bottled at the source
CRYSTAL GEYSER
natural
alpine spring water
by CG Roxane
1 fl. cup (240 m/l)
Bottled at the CG Roxane Soucre at the Mountains of Tennessee
CG Roxane, Benton, Tennessee 37307
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SPRING SOURCE
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ME 5c.
CT 596
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