[Coco] Off-topic: gallons

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

At 12:32 PM 4/14/05 -0700, Alex Evans wrote:
>On Apr 14, 2005, at 12:01 AM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
>
>> And what, pray tell, is measured in dry gallons?  (Dry paint, maybe?)
>
>Grain, fruit, vegetables, anything you may sell by volume that isn't a 
>liquid.

Not a country boy, eh? Grain is measured by weight. Fruits and vegetables
are sold by weight in small quantities or in dry volume of bushels and
pecks. Sometimes you'll see quarts and pints. Don't think you'll find a dry
measure gallon; that's 1/2 peck.

Try asking for a gallon of sweet feed someday, or a gallon of snap peas,
and live to tell. :)

Dennis