From Jeremy Humphries
Finstall, Bromsgrove
I agree that the Sainsbury recipe sounds silly, but there is an explanation
for it: 397 grammes is 14 ounces. You often see it when recipes have been
translated from one system, usually Imperial, to another, usually SI. I suspect
that Sainsbury at one time sold 14-ounce cans of tomatoes, and now they’ve
rounded up the can but not the recipe.
But you’re right not to let them get away with it. Give them 2.54 centimetres
and they’ll take 1.61 kilometres.
