hectograms

Hectolitres and hectograms are used fairly often (the latter, daily) in Italian, for example.

My experience in Sweden is that things sold in the 1/2 and 1/4 kg sizes are often measured in grams or sometimes hectograms rather than kg.

In Norway hectograms are frequently used.

There's no practical advantage to the average person to learn their height in meters instead of inches and feet, or to have to start shopping for hectograms of food when ounces work just fine.

Are they going to insist that folk desist from labelling things in: milligrams, centigrams, decigrams, grams, dekagrams, hectograms, kilograms, and megagrams?

When I was a child growing up in Norway, we went to the kiosk on Saturdays to buy my lørdagsgodteri and I was given a very specific small amount of money to buy a couple of hectograms of candy for or thereabouts.

With the metric system it can happen that some products use grams, and some kilograms (some countries use hectograms while others prefer decagrams, for some uses like food) and you have the same potential for inconsistency, however since there are only factors of ten at play, it doesn't take many brain cycles to quickly compare the numbers in your head.

"I'd like 2 hecto ham" means 2 hectograms (200g, or 0.2kg) It may sound strange if you are not used to it.

Also missed the opportunity to say "10M hectograms" or "100M decagrams".