RE: Re: [FT] Scale in Full Thrust

From: "Ryan M Gill"
> Course I could have just used the South Eastern US unit of measure 
> for weight (and volume or quantity, its really flexible)...its rarely 
> heard outside of the South....it is of course the "mess".
> 
> "Your Grandpa brought home a mess of tomatoes from the farmers
market..."
> 
> I think the conversion factor from mess to ton is 134 or so.

AEBrain asked:
How many messes in a passle?

They don't convert, any more than perch and cord convert to each other. 
I only recall "mess" being used for produce or fish.

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