I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

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    11 months ago

    Not surprising but: metric units, and they are the units of the finished product not some arbitrary historical size lumber used to be

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      11 months ago

      47 x 100 as I recall from my days working in a Builders Merchant, still referred to as ‘four by two’ by builders though