On 7/4/2014 1:51 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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?
>

If packed in Canada, I'd guess at 500g. I don't know all the
regulations, but there has to be some tolerance for rounding conversions