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On 7/4/2014 1:39 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/4/2014 1:02 PM, James Silverton wrote:
>> I noticed recently that Trader Joe's has a replaced their line of
>> preserves with those from E.D. Smith of Winona, ON, Canada.
>> The jams are pretty good but I wonder why they use 17.5oz jars? That
>> doesn't seem any likely metric measure either.

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> Sure it is. Rounded off from 500 grams. True conversion is 496.116655
> grams 500g is actually 17.63698 oz.


I wonder what the jar actually contains: 500g or 17.5oz?

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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