You Won’t Believe What Americans Use Instead of the Metric System—These 72 Hilarious Posts Reveal All!
Ever wonder why an American might describe a distance in tomatoes or measure a giraffe in bananas? Yeah, me neither—until I stumbled into the wild world of US customary units, where a mile turns into “five tomatoes” (really, that’s how folks remember 5,280 feet). While most of the planet happily uses the neat, numercial bliss of the metric system, our American cousins march to the beat of their own drum, juggling feet, yards, stones, and occasionally potatoes. It’s baffling, hilarious, and oddly charming. So, if you’ve got a taste for measurement madness and the quirky creativity that keeps the imperial system alive, you’re in the right place. Dive into this curious mix of logic-defying units and see why Americans have a flair for anything but metric. LEARN MORE
Four bananas deep, half the size of a giraffe and the weight of three apples… While the rest of us get by just fine using the good, old metric system, our friends in America are always daring to be different.
The International System of Units (SI) is a base-10 decimal system used by almost the entire planet. Think meters, centimeters, kilometers or grams. The US customary or imperial system, on the other hand, prefers to count in inches, feet, yards, miles, stones or sometimes even tomatoes. To ‘simplify’ matters, Americans have devised this clever trick: To remember how many feet there are in a mile, think of “five tomatoes” because it sounds like “five two eight oh.” Wait, what?
There’s an entire online community dedicated to shining a light on the United States’ strange way of measuring things. Anything But Metric is a laugh a minute, or a pint… or a potato. The posts prove that Americans will do anything to avoid using a system that’s worked just fine for pretty much everyone else. Here are some perfect examples.
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