/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11551915
They measure things like cavemen, with "stone"

>>11551926
Where ironically Americans weight things in bullets.

The fuck are you talking about mutt?

>>11551915
They do. The guy who answered that question was just being a retard. They use an alternative name for the quarter pounder in some metric system countries because that's what those countries use, not because nobody would understand otherwise. It's the same as knowing what temperature in Celsius or distance in kilometers mean as an American. Just because you don't use the other system doesn't mean you have no knowledge of the common units.

>>11551933
obviously since british people use pounds as money they understand pounds

>>11551926
What? Stone is imperial, the measuring system America uses.

>>11551933
Try using google or wikipedia before posting next time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_Pounder
>In most markets that do not use imperial measurements, the Quarter Pounder is known as the Hamburger Royale, Royal, McRoyal, or variants thereof. In France, Belgium, Portugal and Cyprus the Quarter Pounder includes cheese as standard and is named Royal Cheese. In Italy, formerly known as McRoyal DeLuxe, it goes by Deluxe, Cheese and Bacon variants.
>In English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand that have adopted metrication or have partially adopted metric units such as the UK, the product retains the Quarter Pounder name (although, in French-speaking Canada, it is known as Quart de livre). The term Quarterão com Queijo is used in metric Brazil, Cuarto de Libra con Queso in Spain and in Latin America, and Quarter Pounder Cheese is used in Sweden and Finland. In the United States and South Africa there are two variations: the Quarter Pounder with cheese, and the Quarter Pounder Deluxe. In some Middle-Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, McDonald's provides both a Quarter Pounder and a McRoyale burger on its menu, the McRoyale having slightly different ingredients. In Hong Kong, the Quarter Pounder is known as a "full three taels" (Chinese: 足三両) in Chinese because three taels is approximately equal in weight to a quarter pound, while the English name Quarter Pounder is retained. In Taiwan it is known as "four-ounces beef hamburger" (Chinese: 四盎司牛肉堡). The Quarter Pounder is unavailable in mainland China. In Russia and Ukraine, it was known as Royal Cheeseburger, and since 2016 in Russia it is called Grand Cheeseburger. In Japan, the name was a katakana representation of "Quarter Pounder" (Japanese: クォーターパウンダー Kwōtā Paundā).

>>11551915
"European name"
It's called a quarter pounder in Denmark. Trust Americans and Canadians to not know Europe isn't one country.

>>11551947
Oh right, I didn’t realise europoors was a term that excludes multiple European countries.

>>11551915
Nobody should, because they're trash.

>>11551949
>>11551958
When did OP say this applied to all Europeans?

>>11551941
Stone is how the British weigh people and animals.

>>11551968
When did OP say it didn’t.

>Americans have loved McDonald’s Quarter Pounder ever since a franchisee introduced the iconic burger to the country in 1972. In the 1980s, A&W attempted to capitalize on the success of the Quarter Pounder—and drum up a little competition for Ronald and friends—by introducing a third-pound burger. The bigger burger gave consumers more bang for their collective buck. It was priced the same as the Quarter Pounder but delivered more meat. It even outperformed McDonald’s in blind taste tests, with consumers preferring the flavor of A&W’s burger.

>But when it came down to actually purchasing the third-pound burgers, most Americans simply would not do it. Baffled, A&W ordered more tests and focus groups. After chatting with people who snubbed the A&W burger for the smaller Quarter Pounder, the reason became clear: Americans suck at fractions. Alfred Taubman, who owned A&W at the time, wrote about the confusion:

>'More than half of the participants in the Yankelovich focus groups questioned the price of our burger. "Why," they asked, "should we pay the same amount for a third of a pound of meat as we do for a quarter-pound of meat at McDonald's? You're overcharging us." Honestly. People thought a third of a pound was less than a quarter of a pound. After all, three is less than four!'

>Not understanding that a fourth is actually smaller than a third, many consumers eschewed the better-tasting burger in favor of the one they thought was the better deal. According to Taubman, A&W recalibrated their marketing, saying, “The customer, regardless of his or her proficiency with fractions, is always right.”

>Apparently undaunted by the average American’s less-than-average math skills, McDonald’s tried their own version of the bigger burger, the “Angus Third-Pounder,” in 2007. It didn’t last, but they gave it another shot with the “Sirloin Third Pounder” just last year. That one is gone now, too, but the mighty Quarter Pounder remains a mainstay.

>>11551930
wait, do we use a metric based on bullets? i only know about proof

>>11551968
Europoors = Europeans
Europeans = People who live in Europe

>>11551941
>What? Stone is imperial, the measuring system America uses.
Try using google or wikipedia before posting next time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_(unit)
>The United Kingdom's imperial system adopted the wool stone of 14 pounds in 1835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units
>The United States customary system (USCS or USC) developed from English units which were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country. However, the United Kingdom's system of measures was overhauled in 1824 to create the imperial system, changing the definitions of some units.

>>11551915
Do Americans? A Quarter Pounder doesn't weigh a quarter of a pound, yet the entire continent seems to find this acceptable.

>>11551947
>>11551987
autism

>>11551971
>>11551986
Why would you assume all in the absence of a qualifier for all? If someone says "pizza's here," you interpret that as meaning every pizza on the planet has been shipped to your home?

>>11551968
It says so in the fucking image, genius.

why is it called the double quarter pounder instead of half pound burger?

>>11551996
Just stop asking retarded questions that could be answered with two seconds of google-ing and I won't have to keep posting these.

>>11552000
It doesn't say "all Europeans" anywhere. Learn to read.

>>11551997
>If someone says "pizza's here," you interpret that as meaning every pizza on the planet has been shipped to your home?
No I’m not retarded. If someone says Europeans I assume they are talking about the people who live on the continent of Europe.

>>11552009
They're talking about people living on the continent of Europe. You're adding an extra assumption of all people living there for no reason.

>>11552014
Saying the "European name for it is Royale" is saying that's what it's called in Europe. All of it.
The answer was clearly written by some millennial faggot who didn't even get the reference. He could EASILY have said "French" instead.

>>11552014
OP never said he wasn’t talking about all Europeans either though.

>>11552023
It's not just France.
>Saying the "European name for it is Royale" is saying that's what it's called in Europe. All of it.
"Black people love menthols" means every black person on the planet smokes menthol cigarettes in your mind? The name "Buffalo wings" means every wing in Buffalo, NY is a Buffalo wing?

WUBALUBBADUB DUB!!!!
I need that Royale With Cheese like the gangsters in pulp fiction, Marty... I'm QUENTIN RIIIIIIIIICCCCCK

>>11551915
>>11551926
So it'd be a 0.35 stone with cheese

>>11552023
I doubt this is true. The millennial faggot would have Googled the term before responding (he should use a search engine that doesn't scrape your data, but the internet has been there his whole life and he has never paused to consider privacy implications). Pulp Fiction will have been every result on the first few pages.

>>11552043
No, but it's a reference to a line in a movie where it IS about France. And saying France would at least be true, while saying Europe is not.

>>11552039
Could you go ahead and write down everything OP didn't say he wasn't talking about? Bullet point list works fine.

>>11552054
Saying Europe is true. Saying all of Europe wouldn't be true. If you see a news article titled "Why Americans Can't Get Enough Ranch Dressing," would you assume every resident in the entire US is a ranch dressing fan?

OBSESSED

euros might now know what a quarter pounder is but at least they won't shoot up a school

>>11552099
No. They'd stab people instead.

>>11552067
I would assume they weren't only talking about three states out of the fifty.
I'm done arguing this with you. You're a fucking idiot.

>>11552135
Your* a moron

>>11551972
Welp, 'muricans BTFO once again, kek!

>>11552141
I hope this is grammarbait

>>11551947
>Japanese: クォーターパウンダー Kwōtā Paundā
>Kwōtā Paundā
KEK

No most people here would't know exaclty what that is, do you faggots know what 1kg is? 10 cm? Hence the renaming. Marketing.

It's called a quarter pounder in Denmark, but it still sucks no matter what it's called.

Did you guys ever notice how similar McDonalds is to Krusty Burger?
They call Krusty Burgers "Quarter Pounders" and Krusty partially gelatinated, nondairy, gum-based beverages "shakes"

>>11552735
Don't they cost like 30 kr. for just the burger as well?
I never go to McDonald's because I'm cheap and I'd rather make some burgers at home for less money and more deliciousness.

>>11552735
>smelteost med cheddar
>med

"cheese with cheddar"

>>11551969
>British
Since when do they matter?

>>11551983
Bullets are weighed in grains which really isn't used for anything else.

>>11553167
i like the super specific units of measurements. like hands, use that for a horse, nothing else. love it. leagues are super interesting too because they're based on paces iirc

>>11553167
That's not weighing things in bullets, that's a weighing system FOR bullets (and gunpowder).
A "grain" is an average weight of a single seed of wheat, it was normally used for farming. Bullets and gunpowder are measured in grains because people would use a scale to see how many grains the bullet or load of gunpowder equaled.

>>11551933
>calling them french fries when americans invented them
stupid dumb wrong yuropoors

>>11553912
>Bullets and gunpowder are measured in grains because people would use a scale to see how many grains the bullet or load of gunpowder equaled.
It's worth noting an anecdote of Benjamin Franklin, which may or may not be true. Just before the Revolutionary War, New England petitioned Pennsylvania for a grant to buy gunpowder. Of course, Pennsylvania being Quaker, they could not openly assent to this request, since gunpowder is an instrument of war and they're pacifists. Also of course, Quakers being hypocrites, they gave:
>an aid of 3000 Pounds, and appropriated it for the purchasing of bread, flour, wheat “and other grain.” Some of the council, desirous of giving the House still further embarrassment, advised the governor not to accept the provision, as not being the thing he had demanded; but he reply’d, “I shall take the money, for I understand very well their meaning — other grain is gunpowder.” Which he accordingly bought, and [Pennsylvania] never objected to it.
Gotta love them Quakers, as well as their modern intellectual descendants.

>>11551915
eurpoeans dont know much of anything