The disconnect is fascinating, but it truly was a different era -- though the Brits had a long & glorious history of taking a while to get familiar with new foo

The disconnect is fascinating, but it truly was a different era -- though the Brits had a long & glorious history of taking a while to get familiar with new foods (insert the story, which may be apocryphal, regarding the arrival of potatoes - lacking an instruction manual, people were eating the leafy bit, feeling very sick indeed, and then swearing off the awful plant). Twenty years after the Spaghetti Tree broadcast, a vox pop of some gorgeous Brits painfully misunderstanding how, well, everything works, is my favourite 'I can't believe people thought that...' historical video. https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1092120538259038209 https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1092120538259038209 I wonder if there's any contemporary examples of otherwise seemingly modern societies resisting something like metrication due to a basic comprehension failure.