Royale with Cheese

I went to Mcdonald's today for lunch. The instant I stepped in, I remembered this memorable exchange from Pulp Fiction:

Vincent: And you know what they call a... a... a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?
Vincent: No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f*ck a Quarter Pounder is.
Jules: Then what do they call it?
Vincent: They call it a Royale with cheese.















I'm not exactly in Paris, and its not a "Royale with Cheese" here. As you can see from the picture, its called "McRoyal" - I'm not sure where they got the "royal" bit, but I suppose it sounds a lot better than ".113 kg with Cheese."
Strange though - when I mentioned this observation to an Italian friend afterwards, he asked me what system we used in the Philippines. I said we used both, and it actually depends on what we were measuring:

Weight (or Mass, if you want to be all technical) - we use Metric (Kg) for stuff like meat, veggies, etc. and English (Pounds) for a person's weight, or the weights in the gym.
Distance/Length - we use Metric (Meters/Kilometers/Km per Hr/Square Meter) for speed/distance/area, and English (Feet/Inches) for a person's height. We likewise use English for various other things, like if you wanted to buy a piece of cloth (Yards), or in Golf, if you wanted to measure the distance from the tee box to the pin (likewise in Yards).
Temperature - we use metric (Celsius).

I'm not sure how we ended up like this - I guess like a lot of things in the Philippines, when we were shifting to Metric a couple of years back, the shift wasn't as thorough as it was supposed to.
Just remember, when you hear someone say that he's "almost 2 meters tall," that means he must be very very tall indeed.