In my local market, Ridley road, Dalston, the a new unit of measure has emerged, the Bowl. Some stalls sell an assorted number of apples &c in a large metal bowl for a pound.

I prefer the traders further up who all still use lb-oz scales.

You don't know how much you're getting in a bowl. So much for metric and progress.

Well, when you outlaw sensible measures, what do you expect to happen? Unless they also make a law forbidding any non-metric measure, a new form of customary measure will arise. I, myself, am looking forward to a 4 liter gallon :)

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In my local market, Ridley road, Dalston, the a new unit of measure has emerged, the Bowl.
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This is not a new measure. I saw it in use in the 1980's in the market in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). I also saw a row a vultures above the bucther's stalls. (I jest not - I was on a trans-Sahara tour at the time. Our party met the Paris-Dakar rally cars coming in th eopposite direction and at the end of our journey we learnt that a British enterant had been stuck in the sand for a week before being found).

Is there a butcher's stall at the Dalston amrket, and if so, does it also attract vultures?