Re: supermarket cashier again

Paul J Kriha wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:42B582BB.19C6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Paul J Kriha wrote:
> >
> > > > Home scales don't need
> > > > to handle both 50g and 5 kg (let alone stone -- surely if you're buying
> > > > that many potatoes, they're already in a sealed sack).
> > >
> > > The shops always have prepacked potatoes, oranges, tomatoes,
> > > mushrooms, redishes, and such like, often at lower prices than
> > > unpacked. Unfortunately, you can't see properly all the vegetables
> > > inside and often you find too late some proportion of them
> > > damaged or rotten. The advantage of selecting individual
> > > veges from an open tray is that you chose the best ones
> > > individually and if they are no perfect ones left you buy something
> > > else or go elsewhere.
> >
> > You buy oranges, tomatoes, mushrooms, or radishes by the stone??
>
> Hardly ever. Never outside of US. And in the US only when
> I visit with a family.

Not possible. No one in the US would know what a stone is.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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