"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:32:30 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/2013 1:55 PM, sf wrote:
>>
>> >> It's usually sold in 5-pound bags.
>> >
>> > I thought they downsized flour to four pound sacks years ago. I can
>> > only tell you that years ago, an entire sack of flour wouldn't fit
>> > into my current container - but now it does.
>> >
>>
>> Must be a regional thing Still 5# here.
>
> Call me wrong, it doesn't matter. I sifted the barely used volume of
> flour from my old container into my new container and it barely made
> half way. Okay! Let's say flour is sold as 5 lbs and what I had was
> 4.5. There's no way a full 5 lb bag could come close to filling it
> up. 'Nuff said. Nobody told me what I needed to know.
>
> Feeling proud now?

I couldn't tell you because I don't buy much flour. I have a box of sweet
rice flour and what is probably a 1 pound bag of regular flour. Both are in
the original packages slipped into larger, cheap plastic containers. I do
have larger bags of whole wheat and whole wheat pastry flour. I just put
big plastic bags over them.