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Originally Posted by Benipete
I'm still paying in bushels and pecks  s it an age thing? |
They're a bit further back than I remember! I still prefer to buy things in imperial measures though and I was brought up learning metric but it's getting harder. I asked a young Asian lad on Blackburn market for a quarter of sarsaparillas over Christmas and he said, 'Quarter of what?' He said he got people asking for sweets like that but he couldn't understand it.
The day I'm forced to buy half a litre of beer at the bar is the day I give up drinking. For pity's sake, don't ever let that happen.....