On Dec 29, 6:03*pm, Robert Neville wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

Which makes the server's question utterly impractical and
incomprehensible.

Sorry - I should have made it clear - the ham was presliced, with pricing in
metric and imperial units by weight. I assumed as it was priced by weight that
it would be sold by weight and that my stating "approximately" 100g would have
been sufficient for the server to work out how many slices that would equate to.
Later I noticed that other customers were asking for sliced lunchmeats by the
slice count as well - so it must be a local custom.

That seems rather unsanitary -- every pass of the knife or the slicing
machine exposes futher surfaces to possible contamination, and the
longer it sits, the staler it becomes! Not sliced to order -- or not
sealed in an airtight package -- isn't the way to go.