So yeah, we don't have milk in baggies here. But why on earth would the mom be appalled? People are so lame. Like my friend asking me if some street snack was "safe to eat." Um, how do you think they stay in business?
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Natter 36: But We Digress...
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Jesse - Jul 11, 2005 5:54:36 am PDT #8622 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
flea - Jul 11, 2005 5:55:13 am PDT #8623 of 10001
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Raquel, this site [link] looks like it has a lot on making your own baby cereals.
Hil R. - Jul 11, 2005 5:56:32 am PDT #8624 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil and Nilly, did you two ever meet up, when Hil was in Israel? I've either forgotten, or missed it, or nobody said.
No, sadly. We talked on the phone for awhile, but bus schedules were conspiring against us actually meeting up. We'll see each other next time I'm in Israel, definitely. (Hopefully, that'll be next summer.)
Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2005 5:56:42 am PDT #8625 of 10001
What is even happening?
The automatic way was "a quarter of a liter", but then I had no idea how to translate that, so I just said "small enough to hold", which is supposed to be more international.Since a liter is just a little more than a quart(er of a gallon), I think the chocolate milk baggies would be roughly equivalent to a half-pint, I think, and/or a "cup" (8 fluid ounces) of milk. This is the size our milks are packaged in, for schools, only in mini paper cartons, rather than bags.
JohnSweden - Jul 11, 2005 5:56:45 am PDT #8626 of 10001
I can't even.
Yeah, and before you had the metric system you had imperial gallons, which made buying gas slightly confusing.
Buying gas in the states is still confusing as a result of that, because the imperial gallon is a secondary reference. Of course, we had imperial gallons -- hello, empire!
-t - Jul 11, 2005 5:57:30 am PDT #8627 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Quarter of a liter ~= a cup, which is the size of boxes of milk, I think.
Are they refrigerated, Nilly? It's sounds like not, if you can carry them around with you. I bet that was the "problem".
Gudanov - Jul 11, 2005 5:58:12 am PDT #8628 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
"a quarter of a liter",
Well, a quart here in the U.S. is pretty close to a liter. So you could say "about a quarter of a quart", which sounds funny but would be pretty close.
Jessica - Jul 11, 2005 5:58:12 am PDT #8629 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I gave up trying to figure out the price of gas in Canada YEARS ago. It goes on my credit card, and I assume I can afford it.
(I'm leaving for Hilton Beach in exactly 10 days, so bear with me if I'm all Canada-likes-carrots until then. Hilton is, not to be too melodramatic about it, where my soul lives, and I want to be there so badly I can taste it.)
Jesse - Jul 11, 2005 5:58:31 am PDT #8630 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We get soda in liters but milk in gallons/quarts/pints/etc, which has always been a mystery to me.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 11, 2005 5:58:51 am PDT #8631 of 10001
What is even happening?
Was the imperial gallon equal to 5 quarts, American? I vaguely recall conversation by my folks, when buying gasoline during trips to Nova Scotia and PEI (which has long had the litre of milk in a plastic bag that you put in a pitcher doohickey). First, they'd calculate the Ca-US $ exchange rate, then the size difference of Imperial vs. American gallon. It was very mathy.