re: #654 jwb7605

from Maine’s Michael.
I like to do that to my wife … she is one of those that can’t get her head around the “milligram” thing. She’ll say “this has 980 milligrams of salt”, and I’ll say “wow. that’s almost a whole gram”. She’ll say “no — its a lot more!”

Reminds me of the way lots of people (Americans, in particular) think of foreign currency. If one US dollar is equivalent to several units of a given country’s currency, they assume that “wow, the dollar is really strong there!”, and therefore everything there must be really cheap if you’re an American.