So, I got the question of what a carton of ‘Meyer' lemons weighs
Because different types of fruit are different sized, but usually the container in which it is sold stays the same, the product is going to have a different weight for the same volume. Big fruited pummelos fit fewer fruit and weigh less in a given volume than little kumquats will. However, some varieties are also sold by the weight. California ‘Valencia' oranges for some reason used to weigh 37.5 pounds per carton until 2010 when it was restandardized to 40 pounds. That kind of makes sense.
A local tangerine packer/grower says that they have always packed into half-bushel “cartons” which are 38-pound cartons. More and more the “Cuties” and “Halos” go into 5-pound equivalent cartons.
A California carton is different from a Florida carton which is 4/5 of a bushel box or a ½ field box. There a field box is 1 3/5 bushel or a 2-compartment open-top wooden container equivalent to 90 pounds of oranges or 85 pounds grapefruit or 95 pounds tangerines.
From Google:
A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel was equal to 2 kennings , 4 pecks or 8 gallons.
The name comes from the Old French boissiel and buissiel, meaning "little box". It may further derive from Old French boise, meaning "little butt".[
The butt was a measure of liquid volume equaling two hogsheads. This equated to 108 imperial gallons (490 l) for ale or 126 imperial gallons (570 l) for wine (also known as a pipe), although the Oxford English Dictionary notes that "these standards were not always precisely adhered to".[1][2]
The butt is one in a series of English wine cask units, being half of a tun.
The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine,[1] oil or honey. Typically, a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons), was also used.
So that's what a carton of ‘Meyer' lemons weighs.
Avocados are usually packed into lugs which weigh 25 pounds and can hold a variety of different sized fruit, but they all fit into the same sized carton.
