/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17514036]

This is why metric system is superior for cooking, it has no misleading bs like this.

[Anonymous No.17514041]

>>17514036
It isn't misleading at all, American public schools are just utter fucking garbage.

[Anonymous No.17514046]

anybody who thinks a quarter is bigger than a third has far bigger problems than burgers

[Anonymous No.17514171]

>smaller number means smaller, right?

[Anonymous No.17514190]

>>17514036
Fractions aren't exclusive to the imperial system.

[Anonymous No.17514201]

are they sure people just didn't want to go to A&W

[Anonymous No.17514236]

>>17514041
It's not American schools that are the problem because I learned all that shit. It's retard niggers who pay no attention because they are too busy shuckin and jiven to earn any math beyond drug dealing. Which you'd think would teach fractions but it doesn't

[Anonymous No.17514246]

>>17514036
Or his taste was shit.

[Anonymous No.17514264]

>>17514236
If you're dealing drugs you know maths and weights

[Anonymous No.17514266]

>>17514036
"Can I get uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh 5.3 ounce burger?"
Of course this is just a hypothetical because europeans can only afford to have toast between their bread

[Anonymous No.17514290]

royale with cheese

[Anonymous No.17514356]

>>17514041
>>17514236
the event in his picrel took place in canada, not the US.
>>17514201
this is the right answer. A&W and Burger King completely misunderstood why McDonalds became such a dominant brand. it wasn't because of the size of the burger, or the amazing quality of their food, but because of the consistency of the experience that McDonalds provided. their stores were (at the time, haven't been in decades) always spotlessly clean, and you could be guaranteed that the fries and burgers etc were identical in quality at any McDonalds in the world, any time of the day, and everybody in the family could get their favorite McDonald's meal with or without happy meal trinkets.

[Anonymous No.17514602]

>>17514356
>the consistency of the experience that McDonalds provided
Even Julia Child referred to this. When she was traveling on a timetable and unsure about local restaurants, she always chose to get a quarter pounder at McD's because she knew what to expect and she knew the standards they were expected to maintain. It wasn't gourmet food, but it was good for what it was, fast food.

[Anonymous No.17514606]

>>17514236
i guarantee you drug dealers understand fractions. if you ever find a drug dealer who doesn't, please let me know their name and phone number

[Anonymous No.17514611]

>>17514190
Yeah but a 250g vs a 333g leaves little room to ambiguity

[Anonymous No.17514612]

>>17514602
she also loved wonderbread.

[Anonymous No.17514621]

>>17514611
if you know 333 is more than 250, you should know that a third is more than a quarter. people even pay for burgers with coins that say 'half' and 'quarter' on them and they know which is bigger. you'd have to be a drooling tard to not know 1/3 > 1/4. i guess a&w should have known their demographic a bit better

[Anonymous No.17514949]

>>17514621
but the number is smaller

[Anonymous No.17514993]

>>17514036
fuck metric :^)

[Anonymous No.17515021]

>>17514993
No surprise he got fired.

[Anonymous No.17515025]

>>17514993
>takes an entire leftist meme to cope with the fact that divisibility between units doesn't matter and all the benefits of imperial are obsolete when everyone carries a calculator anyway

[Anonymous No.17515027]

>>17514356
I was pretty sure the whole anecdote was bullshit anyways, like on what planet are you for thinking americans wouldn't be able to find a better deal on food?

[Anonymous No.17515032]

>>17515025
>reading makes something leftist
maybe they were right about you guys you really are that stupid

[Anonymous No.17515054]

>>17514606
What drugs do you plan on buying that comes in a 1/3 big guy?

[Anonymous No.17515058]

>>17515032
>>reading makes something leftist
It was more an assessment of the quantity of text it took him to say nothing

[Anonymous No.17515069]

>>17515027
it wasn't even a better deal, not when you looked at the meal as a whole. yeah you got slightly more meat in the burger, but their sauce wasn't as good and you were stuck with A&W soft drinks, no Pepsi or Coca-Cola. Also their fries were terrible compared to McD - until they changed the recipe in 1990 McDonald's fries were the gold standard, nobody else was remotely close.

[Anonymous No.17515087]

>>17515054
>1/3 is the only fraction
what's your phone number bro?

[Anonymous No.17515237]

Boomers are retarded, is this news to anyone?

[Anonymous No.17515713]

>>17514036
no one bought it because A&W is garbage not because they were stupid

[Anonymous No.17515740]

>>17514036
thinking 1/4 > 1/3 has fucking nothing to do with metric or imperial measurements. Dumb Europeans.

[Anonymous No.17515749]

>>17515027
True, it sounds like some cope from someone trying to explain away their failure to their boss.

[Anonymous No.17515784]

>>17515713
It's pretty good in Canada. That small victory is the least we can get compared to you guys hoarding all the other decent fast food.

[Anonymous No.17516113]

>>17514036
Should've went with the 33% Angus cheese burger slogan!

[Anonymous No.17516137]

>>17514036
>hurr do amerigans rally?
What alternate universe was this shit asspulled from? Everybody knows McDonalds themselves ran a successful lineup of third pounder burgers marketed as a premium burger. They sold very well and were only discontinued when the company started consolidating its menu back to the basics.

[Anonymous No.17516274]

>>17515058
it's literally a post defending imperial and leftists are the ones who want us to switch to metric. you're certifiable buddy

[Anonymous No.17516653]

>>17514036
What do fractions have to do with the metric/imperial system?

[Anonymous No.17517078]

>>17516653
The Imperial system like the Imperial Roman one, uses fractions based on 12 a lot. Because 12 can be divided by 2,3,4,6. Ancient societies often used 12 and 16, they can both be divided by 4 and 2, and 16 can be divided by powers of 2.

[Anonymous No.17517095]

you fucks don't seriously think that fractions are exclusive to imperial systems, do you?

[Anonymous No.17517138]

1/3 is literally less than 1/4 though

[Anonymous No.17517160]

>>17514036
Shoulda called it the megamunch instead of putting numbers in like some numberfag

[Anonymous No.17517178]

>>17517138

[Anonymous No.17517234]

>>17516137
Wasn’t McDonalds third-pounder launched something like 20+ years after A&W’s one?

[Anonymous No.17518128]

>>17514993
Lmao, I'm not touching that word diarrhea with a 3 meter pole.

[Anonymous No.17518144]

>>17514036
Why wouldn’t a Eurofag get confused about a 1/3 meter burger versus a 1/4 meter burger? It would not surprise me if euros thought the 1/4 meter burger was heavier just as we believed that the 1/4 pounder burger was heavier

[Anonymous No.17518179]

>>17518144
In metric, 1/4 lb burger would be called a 110 gram burger, and a 1/3 lb burger would be called a 150 gram burger. But even though I rounded the converted values, neither number would be used in real advertisements beyond stating the amount of meat in the burger in question.

[Anonymous No.17518195]

>>17514264
Yeah right. Street dealers just eyeball that shit.

[Anonymous No.17518199]

>>17514993
That was interesting and entertaining. Too long for 4chan though. This is the place where people reply to this comment or your mother will die in her sleep.

[Anonymous No.17518200]

>>17514356
This is how budwesier became such a big brand. Regardless of where in the world you bought one of their products it tasted the exact same.

[Anonymous No.17518544]

>>17514993
Yup, imperial measurements do have some legitimate advantages over metric. Too bad the person who wrote that critique is just as retarded as the people who think that metric is better in every way. Joan sounds like a cunt and I'm not surprised she got fired from her job.

[Anonymous No.17518604]

>>17514993
That part about Fahrenheit made me laugh.

[Anonymous No.17518892]

>>17514356
Canadian a&W is consistently better than McDonald's

[Anonymous No.17519233]

>>17514356
>in canada, not the US
Anon said "American". Canada is American.

[Anonymous No.17519242]

>>17519233
Absolutely nobody assumes that sort of nuance in casual conversation.

[Anonymous No.17519276]

>>17514036
That's a great argument senator, mind backing it to with a source?

[Anonymous No.17519289]

>>17514036
That's a great argument senator, mind backing it up with a source?

[Anonymous No.17519291]

>>17514036
>no misleading bs like this.
The meme IS bs.
There's no reason to believe this nonsense is true.

[Anonymous No.17519403]

>>17514036
to be fair, the 0.2268KG burger doesn't roll off the tounge very well

[Anonymous No.17519766]

>>17514036
>>17514041
It could have fooled me If I was tired though I work with numbers all day as an architect

[Anonymous No.17520106]

>>17518128

[Anonymous No.17520121]

>>17514036
damn that looks delicious

[Anonymous No.17520130]

>>17514236
That's still not a problem with the imperial system,

[Anonymous No.17520137]

>>17514036
change to the metric system already

[Anonymous No.17520140]

>>17514993
Base 12 is good for casual day to day math but you can still do that within the metric system as long as you're not a retard

[Anonymous No.17520163]

>>17514036
this was the 80s. I doubt you could get away with being this dumb today.

[Anonymous No.17520197]

>>17520163
people are dumber today, schools no longer require you to know how to do math or even read to graduate, it's fucking insane.

[Anonymous No.17520209]

>>17520197
Please say sike. Do they at least require you to understand things, you can be competent in many areas without being literate.

[Anonymous No.17520261]

>>17514036
wow what a surprise, people who stuff their faces with shitty fast food are idiots
more news at 11

[Anonymous No.17520269]

>>17514036
>"misleading"
Are you just genuinely fucking retarded, or what?

[Anonymous No.17520294]

>>17520209
If you're stupid enough to believe that then you're stupid enough to believe anything.

[Anonymous No.17520394]

>>17520294
Go build a house and forge a sword bro, if illiterates can do that surely you can easily figure it out

[Anonymous No.17520424]

>>17517078
>using a base 12 math system with a base 10 numeral system
I thought Romans were supposed to be smart?

[Anonymous No.17520458]

>>17520424
If you cant use the advantages of dividing by 4, 3, 6 and 2 within base 10 then I have bad news for you bro

[Anonymous No.17520470]

I think math sucks!

[Anonymous No.17520476]

>>17520394
they can't though, or the house/sword will be shit

[Anonymous No.17520483]

>>17514201
Clearly hasn’t been to Canada

[Anonymous No.17520494]

>>17520106
fucking based

[Anonymous No.17520528]

>>17520476
Most modern ones can't, because they haven't been taught how to. You can teach that skill without the use of reading and writing. Literacy is not a hard requirement for intelligence though it does help the teaching process we are familiar with

[Anonymous No.17520586]

Maybe most customers didn’t want to be disgusting fat sacks of shit and realized that a quarter pound of meat was more than sufficient?!?

[Anonymous No.17520719]

>>17520586
>Not wanting to be a fat shit
>Eating a McDonald's Quarter Pounder

[Anonymous No.17520740]

>>17514611
250g is bigger than both 1/4 and 1/3 of a pound, idiot.

[Anonymous No.17520760]

Stupid white males talking like you're immune to the science of advertisement psychology lol

You all think you're so flawlessly logical. Like a price ending in .98 has never influenced your purchasing decisions. You're not. Ironically, this hubris makes you all the more exploitable.

[Anonymous No.17520785]

>>17520760
go buy some more alcohol that you heard about from a rap song

[Anonymous No.17521699]

>>17514290
that's right!

[Anonymous No.17521771]

Another day, another thread about yuros seething about anglo-american superiority

[Anonymous No.17521774]

>>17514036
I guess you can have your opinion. but its wrong

[Anonymous No.17521779]

>>17514612
Most people of her generation did. Until the 1980s, white bread was considered more luxurious than whole-wheat

[Anonymous No.17521809]

>>17518179
In most metric countries, the quarter-pounder is still called a quarter-pounder. Even in countries that never had a unit called the ‘pound’, like Japan and South Korea.
I think France is the ONLY European country that calls it the Royale with Cheese. UK and Ireland definitely use ‘quarter pounder’, and most of the Germanic countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Austria, etc..) also do

[Anonymous No.17521817]

>>17518544
The short of it is Base 12 units (like feet) are easier to calculate in odd divisions without assistance, Base 16 units (like pounds and gallons) have a larger variety of subunits they can be broken down into, and Fahrenheit was designed to be replicable in the field even without fancy equipment.

[Anonymous No.17521823]

>>17520424
Typically romans only wrote roman numerals in shorthand. When writing maths problems they’d use word problems and spell out the numbers like ‘eleven’ or ‘twenty-two’. Arabic numerals (1234...) are, as the name implies, an Arab invention that were brought to Europe during the crusades. Centuries after the Roman Empire had collapsed

[Anonymous No.17522137]

>>17514036
>misleading bs

This shit is 5th grade math. What in the world?

[Anonymous No.17522156]

>>17519233
>North North America

Suuuuuure

[Anonymous No.17522161]

>>17520760
It doesnt

[Anonymous No.17522193]

>>17515054
what the fuck kind of retarded point is this?

[Anonymous No.17522309]

>>17515054
half 8th is $25, 8th $50, quarter is $100, half is $150 and a O is $300, quarter pound is $1000
If druggies can handle fractions what is your excuse?

[Anonymous No.17522312]

>>17514264
kek that's the truth man, knew a guy who sold drugs (clean now, went through the system and whatnot), he could do math in his head better than anyone else I ever met and I got a degree in chemistry.

[Anonymous No.17522314]

>>17514993
>blah blah blah I'm a retard
metric system is better and easier to understand. same goes for kilogram

[Anonymous No.17522316]

>>17520106
this is either made by a master troll
a schizoid or an absoulate buttmad American

[Anonymous No.17522331]

>>17522309
Notice that no drug measurements come in 1/3?
Fuckin' dunce.

[Anonymous No.17522348]

>>17514993
Who the fuck sells jam by fractions of a litre? It's either grams or millilitres. Stopped reading. There.

[Anonymous No.17522391]

>>17522331
a lid

[Anonymous No.17522398]

>>17522312
>I got a degree in chemistry
Weird flex but alright.

[Anonymous No.17522432]

>>17518544
Please refrain from posting reasonable takes on this forum. We only argue and bicker between Old and New World while disregarding every other part of this world with simple, yet catchy stereotypes.

[Anonymous No.17522440]

>>17514036
Metric is for people filtered by division.

[Anonymous No.17522555]

>>17514036
it's bait but ill bite
>1/6kg vs 1/5 kg

[Anonymous No.17522560]

>>17514036
If you can’t easily convert imperial measurements to metric in your head, you’re a failure as a human.

[Anonymous No.17522578]

>>17514036
>a comparatively minuscule company releases a product to compete with the largest company in the industry by a huge margin
>it fails
>definitely because of fractions and not because they’re a practically nonexistent company compared to the one whose product they tried to improve upon
This image is retarded and so is anyone who automatically believes the text attached to it.

[Anonymous No.17522611]

>>17522578
It's their flagship burger today. They changed the name.

[Anonymous No.17522632]

The funny thing about metric is that you could literally just do everything in metric with imperial base units. They literally made a nonsensical set of unit standards with no basis in reality or practical use when they could've just made kilofeet, or millipounds, or megaBTUs and called it a day.

[Anonymous No.17522647]

>>17514236
You're exactly right but why is that when I write that word I get banned for 3 days but I read it 50 times in the span of 10 minutes and all those posts stay up?

[Anonymous No.17522654]

>>17518199
ya got me

[Anonymous No.17522669]

>>17522578
The fact that McDonalds also released a very successful line of third pounders also kind of piles on the shit.

[Anonymous No.17523290]

>ameriburger recipe
>EASY 15-MINUTE RECIPE WITH INGREDIENTS FOUND IN EVERY HOME!
>take Safeway® easybake this
>add Costco® premixed that
>mix with Trader Joe's® instant this
>put in some Shartmart® precooked that
>make sure to add a lot of sugar
>and slather everything in soibean oil or some cancer-in-a-can cooking spray
>and for the final touch, add a spice mix only found in my hometown of Bumfuck Falls, Ohio
>your whole family will be begging for more! (once their arteries unclog)
Do Americans eat food that didn't partially or fully come from a factory of some kind?

[Anonymous No.17523342]

>>17514036
Mess with the bull and you get the horns

[Anonymous No.17523346]

>>17522312
>and I got a degree in chemistry
so did he

[Anonymous No.17523390]

>>17514236
>It's not American schools that are the problem

[Anonymous No.17523555]

>>17514993
In Slovenia we literally order drinks by the dcl.
We even tell the waiter the amount of decilitres of whatever mixture of substances we'd like in our drink and it's expected of them to do so.

[Anonymous No.17523621]

>>17522331
Wouldn't the same exact principle apply to 1/8 and 1/4

[Anonymous No.17523653]

>>17522331
Because it's a weird quantity? I guarantee you can buy whatever quantity in whatever weird fraction you want, your dealer won't give a single fuck.

[Anonymous No.17523657]

>>17514611
Okay now consider the effect on sales.
I sold four quarters. That adds up precisely to a whole unit. I sold three thirds. Is that 0.999999 units? 1.01 units?

[Anonymous No.17523930]

>>17523621
>Wouldn't the same exact principle apply to 1/8 and 1/4
those are extremely common drug weights, ever heard of a 8 ball

[Anonymous No.17523984]

>>17514993
This is fucking stupid. I could go through it point-by-point and show it, but that would probably be a waste of time.

[Anonymous No.17523998]

>>17523984
>I swear bros, I could totally own you with facts and logic, but I'm too cool.
Lmao, okay metrictard.

[Anonymous No.17524044]

>>17522560
Worse, if you can't tell size difference between common fractions like that you need to be exterminated.

[Anonymous No.17524065]

>>17523984
you could pick his strongest argument and make a counter point

[Anonymous No.17524083]

they always spin this story that americans are retarded and the third pounders failed because 4>3 but they never address the fact that they called them ANUS POUNDERS

nobody knew what the fuck angus meant and therefore they just ordered the "normal" burgers, because they didn't want to risk getting some crappy meat instead of the predictable mcdonalds beef

[Anonymous No.17524117]

>>17522316

The best trolls don't do it intentionally

[Anonymous No.17524138]

>>17524117
is that still a troll at that point or just a based retard?

[Anonymous No.17524178]

>>17523390
Collapse of American education quality neatly coincides with the shift in demographics of the US. In 1957, the US population was 90% white anglo protestant

[Anonymous No.17524189]

>>17514036
>>17514041
Don't believe everything you read in a macro image you retarded faggots.

[Anonymous No.17524219]

>>17523290
Yes, but apparently we're kinda rare.
Television is such a mind controlling force here, I've visited friends with whom I used to cook with for dinner parties, and was shocked to find that the go-to for them these days is either fast food, or processed, prepack garbage while they watch cooking shows/food pr0n.
My parents STILL get mad at me when visiting, when I tell them I won't eat their seed oil, corn syruped, GMO, sucralose/aspartame laden garbage.(This has been the case for 20+ years--NOT BREAKING NEWS. )
Both are retarded fucking boomers though, so of course, they don't want to hear WHY.
They're BOTH fat as fuck, btw, while I am fit.

[Anonymous No.17524221]

>>17514611
1/8 kilo yeah that won't confuse anyone.

[Anonymous No.17524238]

>>17518199

[Anonymous No.17524268]

>>17524221
anything south of a kilo is converted to imperial

[Anonymous No.17524280]

>>17520106
>Burgers get kiked again
Many such cases

[Anonymous No.17524308]

>>17514993
Stopped reading at the beer sizes. In Vic, Australia we have Pot, Schooner and Pint. Small, medium and large. No one cares about the actual volume, they're just names at this point.
The rest of the image must be autistic ramblings if he can't understand this.

[Anonymous No.17524319]

>>17524280
What measurement system does Israel use?

[Anonymous No.17524322]

>>17524268
Anything less than a kilogram is measured in grams.

[Anonymous No.17524323]

>>17524308
All of those are direct translations of imperial measurements. Sold in those sizes because any attempt to metricate pubs was met with fierce resistance by the local population. When you order a pint, you’re ordering in imperial

[Anonymous No.17524343]

>>17518199
Couldn't agree more.

[Anonymous No.17524346]

>>17524323
When I order a Pint, I'm asking for the largest glass they have. Usually cheaper per volume.
As shown in my image, a pint is measured differently in different states, it has nothing to do with imperial these days. It's just a traditional name for a large beer.

[Anonymous No.17524347]

>>17524238

[Anonymous No.17524361]

>>17524346
To further this, asking someone how much liquid is in a pint is like asking how much is in a large maccas drink. We don't know or care. All we know is it's the large.

[Anonymous No.17524367]

>>17524322
No it's measured pounds which is then fractionized into quarters the broken into ounces which get fractionized all the way down to half 8th' and anything smaller then that is moved back to grams then mg.

[Anonymous No.17524375]

>>17524319
shekels

[Anonymous No.17524378]

>>17524367
No, I definitely asked for 300 grams of ham at the deli and they measured and gave me 300 grams of ham. I didn't use pounds or ounces.

[Anonymous No.17524388]

>>17524361
there is exactly 1 pint in a pint because it is a unit of measurement not a nickname you fucking retard

[Anonymous No.17524393]

>>17524322
1134 grams just rolls off the tongue
>yes I'd like a 1134 grams with cheese please.

[Anonymous No.17524395]

>>17524388
Except in South Australia :^)

[Anonymous No.17524401]

>>17524378
we were talking about drugs

[Anonymous No.17524402]

>>17524388
mah lower class black fren!

[Anonymous No.17524410]

>>17524393
That's more than a kilo though, did you read the post?
And why would I order cheese like that? I'd just say
>A kilo of cheese please
Or
>Twelve hundred grams of cheese please
If needed that much.
>Ah yes, can I please have 2.204 pounds of cheese
Sounds retarded.

[Anonymous No.17524414]

>>17514036
you are now aware that there is pretty much no country on the planet that uses ONLY the metric system.

You are also aware that the US uses it as much or more than some countries.

and for the most part in most countries it's only scientists engineers and government types that use it at all.

[Anonymous No.17524415]

>>17524402
>towed by a truck and not a challenger
-1 point

[Anonymous No.17524416]

>>17524414
>there is pretty much no country on the planet that uses ONLY the metric system
Australia doesn't use any imperial

[Anonymous No.17524418]

>>17524410
sorry forgot the decimal point
>yes I'd like a .1134 kilogram with cheese.

[Anonymous No.17524421]

>>17524416
sure mate. sure.

so no pints in the pub eh!

gimme a litre o' beeh mate!

[Anonymous No.17524434]

>>17524421
A pint in my pub is not an imperial pint, it's just a name for a large glass.
Meanwhile most cars in the US have km/h on the speedo and I have never seen mph in Australia.

[Anonymous No.17524443]

>>17524434
betcha it measures as a pint...

[Anonymous No.17524453]

>>17524434
schooner 425 ml ~15 ozs (pretty close to a pint)
pint size 570ml ~20 ozs
Pony size 140ml ~5ozs

[Anonymous No.17524454]

>>17524434
>Meanwhile most cars in the US have km/h on the speedo
we can switch it to km/h in case we cross over to Canada but all American cars are MPH

[Anonymous No.17524478]

>>17524454
Basically the same in the UK. All the road signs are in miles so mph is the main one you use, but the km/h is there as well in case you head over to the EU.

[Anonymous No.17524522]

>>17524443
Are you talking about US pint or UK pint. Wait, I thought a pint was a pint...

[Anonymous No.17524528]

>>17524454
I can see km/h in the speedo

[Anonymous No.17524531]

>>17524346
In all states except South Australia, a pint is legally classified as 570ml. Which is the metric translation of the commonwealth pint. South Australia has a different pint because of alcohol laws that date back to the 1890s, and has nothing to do with metrication. You’re ordering an imperial size.
>it’s just easier to use the traditional name
Which is the crux of the image you were originally responding to. Rounded metric measure is clunky for day-to-day use, because metric wasn’t invented by tradesmen or other working-class folk. It was invented by pseudointellectuals dictating from on high about what they thought would be best for the peasantry.

[Anonymous No.17524545]

>>17524522
A pint is a pint is a pint is a pint...

[Anonymous No.17524548]

>>17524434
US cars have kmh in a smaller inner ring because we were originally planning on switching to metric in the 1970s. So the government passed a law that all cars needed to have both measurements, in anticipation of the widespread rollout of metric speed signs. Of course there was such massive public pushback against metrication that it never happened, but the law for speedometers having both units was never rescinded. It helps when crossing the border into Canada, though, because that way we don’t have to remember the conversions

[Anonymous No.17524551]

>>17524545
Also, that "Canadian pinte" is a very specific and irregular thing and 99% of the time a pint here is either the US pint or the imperial pint.

[Anonymous No.17524561]

>>17524528
yea that is standard in cheaper cars, my Buick has a button that changes the rate on the gauge to match km/h

[Anonymous No.17524564]

>>17524478
i did not know UK used MPH

[Anonymous No.17524565]

>>17524545
>different countries have different measurements
For most of human history, this is how it worked.
That being said, the Imperial and US pints are directly related, the French pint was widespread across the French empire prior to metrication, and the Indian pint originates from the British half pint.

[Anonymous No.17524572]

>>17524564
UK uses a mix of metric and imperial, though now that they’re out of the EU there are increasing talks to switch back to full imperial.

[Anonymous No.17524577]

>>17524548
It should be noted that the UK never changed their road signs over from miles post-metricization like most Commonwealth countries did, much for the same reason the US never went through. The UK system of roads can get horribly convoluted in some places, much like the US. Changing ALL the signs was seen as a hassle for a nation that was well used to the old style. Other changes like those in product labelling were seen as a lot easier, and matched up with the standards in most European countries at the time.
Contrast Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, which have very simple highway systems between their sparse populated areas.

[Anonymous No.17524583]

>>17524545
>scott pint =1696ml
I have a new respect for the Scottish

[Anonymous No.17524586]

>>17524531
What if I changed from using Pint to large.
>I want a large beer
I don't actually care how much is in there volume wise, because every pub charges differently. A name is a name.
>Rounded metric measure is clunky for day-to-day use
No, using metric conversion of imperial is clunky just like using imperial converted metric is clunky.
If we had no concept of imperial measurements, then a large beer world probably be 500ml or half a litre. Being that Australians like to nick name things, we'd probably end up calling it a halfa

[Anonymous No.17524588]

>>17524564
Just wait until you learn about the stones. Forget measuring in eagles per football field.

[Anonymous No.17524592]

Are anons ITT forgetting that America is not a pure imperial country either?

[Anonymous No.17524594]

>>17524592
More like they're coming to the realization that this isn't the memetastic black-and-white shitflinging it's purported to be. Most people nowadays learn more than one system of measures.

[Anonymous No.17524606]

>>17524586
>Pint? We don’t serve those. Only 500ml
Where have I heard this before...

[Anonymous No.17524608]

Nothing is as dumb as that stupid rocks and boulders measurement system that bongs use for weight. I would take brine freezing point and football fields any day over that shit.

[Anonymous No.17524613]

>>17524606
>t.

[Anonymous No.17524620]

>>17524606
i wouldn't know i only drink hard liquor and the bars around here have 2oz shot glasses

[Anonymous No.17524621]

>>17524606
>>17524613
I'm pretty certain he's referring to that bit in 1984, where Winston talks to an old man at the pub who complains about how a half-litre is too small and a full litre is too big compared to the old pint.

[Anonymous No.17524627]

>>17524621
Which pint though

[Anonymous No.17524628]

>>17524592
I deliberately avoid using metric in day-to-day speech as a matter of principle. My Golf doesn’t have a 2L engine, it has a 122ci turbo. I don’t buy 750ml of whisky, I buy ⅕ a gallon. When I take medication, I don’t take grams, I take a drachm. And so on
I hate the antichrist

[Anonymous No.17524631]

>>17524621
>it's actually "literally 1984" this time
My sides.

[Anonymous No.17524635]

>>17524594
>Most people nowadays learn more than one system of measures.
i agree, most Europeans know more then one language but they lose their shit when confronted with a second measurement system.
Imperial works better for human scale and metric works better for engineering

[Anonymous No.17524636]

>>17524627
They don't specify, but since the novel is supposedly set in the UK, I'd assume the typical British one.

[Anonymous No.17524645]

>>17524628
>I hate the antichrist
You say this, but the Bible describes the anti-Christ as being charismatic and appealing to even the faithful.

[Anonymous No.17524665]

>>17524645
so the EU?

[Anonymous No.17524714]

>>17524645
You’re describing metric. It’s practically a religion to the people who grew up using it, just look at the endless seethe caused whenever someone suggests imperial might be superior.

[Anonymous No.17524739]

>>17524714
I always saw imperial as a religion to the people
See >>17524628

[Anonymous No.17524741]

>>17524631
>missing the point
The little side story about the 500ml beer in 1984 was worldbuilding to show that in a socialist future, all vestiges of tradition and cultural identity would be erased specifically so people would no longer have a connection to the past. It’s the same reason the Party invented Newspeak. 1984 is filled with stuff like this; it’s not an argument about the abstract merits of metric vs imperial, it’s about culture. Orwell was alluding to how the Bolsheviks forcibly converted Russia to the metric system so as to divorce the Russians from their pre-communist history.

Me alluding to it in my earlier post was a social commentary on how Australia is going down the same path of divorcing the Australian public from their anglo ancestry, in a bid to make the country a cosmopolitan “multicultural utopia”.
If you couldn’t connect the dots on that and could only get your knickers in a twist over “muh imperial vs metric”, you are unironically ngmi

[Anonymous No.17524757]

>>17524739
That post was me btw
The vast majority of imperial users will, if pressed on it, just say it is a personal preference. Metric users actively try and convert anyone who doesn’t use metric. There are dozens of ‘pro metric’ advocacy groups, constantly trying to pressure the US and the handful of other countries that don’t use it to switch. How many anti-metric people exist in France? Japan? Brazil?

[Anonymous No.17524779]

>>17524741
Oh, no, I got the point, I just couldn't resist the joke.

[Anonymous No.17524797]

>>17524757
>How many anti-metric people exist in France?
More than you think

[Anonymous No.17524864]

>>17524797
Are they the same fringe group that advocate for Napoleon’s great great grandson to inherit the French throne?

[Anonymous No.17524991]

>uh I'll have a 0.26417 gallons of water please
Why are Americans so retarded?

[Anonymous No.17525219]

>>17514993
That part about "making your own thermometer" with a string is the most retarded thing I have ever read on 4chan and wouldn't even work reliablity in different altitudes

[Anonymous No.17525241]

>>17525219
Celsius doesn’t work reliably at different altitudes either. Water freezes at higher temperatures and boils at lower temperatures when at a lower air pressure.

The implication was obviously when at sea level

[Anonymous No.17525288]

>>17514993
>Less practical for ourselves

stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.17525348]

Fahrenheit is just all around better. Degrees are smaller so you have more precision without going to decimals. It’s also a very human -centric measurement: 0 is pretty cold, 100 is pretty hot. Anything outside that range is fucking cold / fucking hot. Basing your temperature scale on the states of water is sterile, heckin’ sciency, and soulless.

[Anonymous No.17525382]

>>17525348
>Degrees are smaller so you have more precision without going to decimals
Moot point
>0 is pretty cold, 100 is pretty hot.
For Celsius
0 expect ice
10 is cool, might need a jumper
20 is perfect, light clothing
30 is hot, light clothing a must
40 is really hot, will need to activately search for something to cool yourself down
What's hard about that?

[Anonymous No.17525393]

>>17525382
>oh man its 35 degrees out I’m roasting
doesn’t sound right, it sounds like something an alien who just arrived on earth would say. an atheist alien with thick rimmed glasses and a receding hairline.

[Anonymous No.17525400]

>>17525382
>10 is cool, might need a jumper
Fuck off, you need a parka mate

[Anonymous No.17525401]

>>17525348
Except it's not even heckin' sciency and soulless enough. Kelvin is the only non-retarded scale and people only use other scales because they are used to it. Imagine we did the same with velocities. Something like 30mph is 0 because it's "subjectively pretty slow", everything below is negative speed

[Anonymous No.17525403]

>>17525393
>It's 86 out today, might need a hat
Sounds like someone with dementia who forgot how numbers work

[Anonymous No.17525405]

>>17525401
Kelvin’s ‘absolute zero’ isn’t based on anything objective either.

[Anonymous No.17525409]

>>17525405
You mean the increments? The zero is absolutely based on something obvective.

[Anonymous No.17525417]

>>17525405
Heat = energy
Zero energy = zero heat = absolute zero

[Anonymous No.17525482]

>>17524178
I went to a shitty school and I turned out fine because I'm not a stupid subhuman that didn't pay attention. The schools themselves would be fine if it filled with whites and asians that at least retained the information taught. The issue isn't the teachers not teaching, it's when they let retards that don't take school seriously into the real world. My sister went to the same schools and same graduated the college still couldn't fucking tell you our state capital or do my seventh grade math homework. That's where the joke is.

[Anonymous No.17525577]

>>17524991
we don't give a shit about arbitrary measurements, we put a amount of water on a bottle that feels appropriate to the scale of a thirsty human

[Anonymous No.17525586]

>>17514036
Those kinds of people wouldn't do any better under the metric system.

[Anonymous No.17525601]

>>17525577
>What do we call our large beers?
>Let's just call them a pint
>No, they don't care if it's an actual pint, it's just a large drink

[Anonymous No.17525616]

>>17524375
criminally underrated post

[Anonymous No.17526062]

>>17525409
>>17525417
how is it not arbitrary? i could make something colder than "absolute zero" if i wanted, i'd just have to put it in the freezer for longer

[Anonymous No.17526148]

>>17526062
0K corresponds to a system where every particle in it is at rest. There is no speed lower than 0, mate.

[Anonymous No.17526161]

>>17522398
Not him but you do a decent chunk of mental math for chemistry.
e.g. when preparing 100mL of 0.1M NaOH, how much 1M NaOH should you use?

[Anonymous No.17526227]

>>17526161
Anon, the average person thinks molarity is something related to teeth and molality is a typo.

[Anonymous No.17526267]

>>17526148
i would simply take particles that are at 0K and put them in the freezer, thereby making them colder

[Anonymous No.17526271]

>>17521771
Aint it right? Everyday I come to literally any board and its packed to the gills with seething and dilating foreigners. Its rough, man

[Anonymous No.17526283]

>>17526148
>>17526267
There are definitely some people who need to be euthanized to prevent reproduction or any stupid ideas they have from spreading. You cannot take more energy out of a system than it has. Eventually it hits zero.

[Anonymous No.17526298]

>>17526283
did i say anything about taking energy out of the system? no. i said i would make it colder

[Anonymous No.17526317]

>>17526267
>he's joking
you really got me man.

[Anonymous No.17526757]

>>17525382
>Moot
Who?

[Anonymous No.17526835]

>>17514993
>haha shorthand terms exist, checkmate atheists
A 'pintje' is just a quick euphemism for a glass of beer of 250ml, roughly equivalent to old halfpints. When you're refering to something of 500ml, like a tall can of beer, everyone just says 'halve liter'. Similar to how people will refer to 500g as a 'pond' but 1kg as a 'kilo'.

t. Dutchfag.

Just because the advantage of metric is that it has easily divisible decimal units doesn't mean people autistically refer to the specific dimensions in daily life.

[Anonymous No.17526881]

>>17524548
>pushback against metrication that it never happened
incorrect. it happened almost everywhere EXCEPT mile markers and speed signs, and gas stations. also some food and drink containers.

[Anonymous No.17526888]

>>17524628
>I hate the antichrist
I hate trump or obama too.

[Anonymous No.17526960]

>>17526757

[Anonymous No.17526970]

>>17526757

[Anonymous No.17526985]

>>17524280
holy based

[Anonymous No.17526988]

>>17526757

[Anonymous No.17527016]

>>17526960
>>17526970
>>17526988
Bro, everyone knows who moot is. Twas a joke.

[Anonymous No.17527029]

>>17527016
Who?

[Anonymous No.17527048]

>>17527016
this nigga said Twas

[Anonymous No.17527066]

>>17514036
Because fractions are an imperial system thing, retard.

[Anonymous No.17527083]

>>17514611
This moron thinks that lbs are the smallest measurement in imperial. They could use oz, but they dont. They could say a 4oz burger instead of 1/4lb, but they don’t because most people understand fractions. If it was in kg, they still would use fractions most likely cause it looks better on a menu and is easier to comprehend than gram differences.

[Anonymous No.17528373]

Mass/volume imperial units are alright, Fahrenheit on the other hand, is absolutely abhorrent.

[Anonymous No.17528645]

>>17526988
Why are those digits in the 10000s? What board is that? Or were there barely any posters in 2012?

[Anonymous No.17528872]

>>17528645
When did /qa/ come out? Was that roughly when moot left and choot took over?

[Anonymous No.17529088]

>>17525405
I heard about that measuring system as a kid and it just made me think of Home Alone

[Anonymous No.17529102]

>>17524592
I only see drug dealers and users using metric desu

[Anonymous No.17529108]

>>17529102
I never see anyone using imperial desuu

[Anonymous No.17529936]

>>17514036
I heard something like that it was debunked and people didn't eat A&W one because it was shit and had nothing to do with the size

[Anonymous No.17530008]

>>17514036
this isn't true and was just what some retard journo thought was the reason it failed. more likely people didn't want or couldn't finish a 3rd more meat

[Anonymous No.17530012]

>>17520483
Nobody wants to go to Canada, Justin. Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.17530020]

>>17520106
>burgers calling anyone else jews
Kys

[Anonymous No.17530025]

this has been debunked anyways.

[Anonymous No.17530031]

>>17524280
>>17524319
israel uses metric

[Anonymous No.17530058]

>>17515740
0.25 and 0.33. How fucking substandard is your education in America?

[Anonymous No.17530063]

>>17521771
Seething? We're all fucking laughing at your education.

[Anonymous No.17530078]

>>17530031
Of course they do. There's only 454g in a pound but there's 1000 in a kilo.

[Anonymous No.17530093]

>>17529102
>>17529108
ever heard of a 8 ball?

[Anonymous No.17530098]

>>17530093
Yeah, it's the black ball in pool

[Anonymous No.17530123]

>>17530098
Man, fuck your gay ass bullshit

[Anonymous No.17530147]

>>17514036
Both metric and volumetric(burgers) have their place in cooking. No one is measuring spices by gram, everyone uses a teaspoon. For baking where measurements are more important metric makes sense.

[Anonymous No.17530161]

>>17530123
Nigger

[Anonymous No.17530441]

>>17519233
if you ask anyone outside the US or Canada who an American is, they will tell you it is a person from the US. In a /ck/ related way, Americanized pizza is what most of the world thinks of when they imagine pizza (if they know what it is).

[Anonymous No.17530807]

>>17530058
And you still dont understand lol

[Anonymous No.17530810]

>>17514036
>image therefore real

[Anonymous No.17530826]

>>17514041
The problem at this point would be literal retardation if uneducated people can't just fucking look it up.

[Anonymous No.17530884]

>>17528645
The Reddit invasions of 2012 and 2016 significantly increased the number of users. /pol/ and /v/ easily make up more than 3/4ths of the traffic these days.

[Anonymous No.17531042]

>>17526881
No industry in the US uses metric, save for pharmaceuticals and the military to a degree. Aerospace, construction, and just about everything else uses exclusively imperial.

[Anonymous No.17531046]

>>17530063
T. Obsessed

[Anonymous No.17531050]

>>17530147
How did people bake before the invention of metric? Or really any precise measuring equipment?

[Anonymous No.17531652]

>>17531050
by feel. my grandmother's oven growing up didn't even have a thermometer

[Anonymous No.17532616]

>>17514036
What would you even call a quarter pounder in metric? A 125 gramer? Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

[Anonymous No.17532634]

Fun Fact: in 1975, your american president gerald ford passed an act of law to make metric system the official system in the US. But so many kids failed to adopt and schools accused the metric system of being racist and particularly unfair to blacks that the law was eventually overturned.

[Anonymous No.17532640]

>>17532634
Sauce?

[Anonymous No.17532656]

>>17532616
Sure, but a weight statement isn't a particularly appealing choice of name for a food to begin with.

[Anonymous No.17532664]

>>17532656
it obviously works for the Quarter Pounder...

[Anonymous No.17532696]

>>17524414
you are aware that you are a retard
reddit space
you are also aware that most other countries only use some imperial for weird stuff because of the few countries that refuse to use metric

[Anonymous No.17532740]

>>17532664
It's an objectively awful name. So are Big Mac and McChicken. They only sound right to you due to saturation. Quarter Pounders don't even weigh a quarter pound.

[Anonymous No.17532766]

>>17532740
>Quarter Pounders don't even weigh a quarter pound.
No cooked item is going to predictably weigh something you autist. The more you cook it, the more fat and moisture it loses, and shrinks. That's why the precooked patties were above 4 ozs even in 2015, because they came out smaller than people liked and in the 2.5-2.6 oz weight range post cooking.

[Anonymous No.17532772]

I'd like a one third pounder, please
You already had two pounders???

[Anonymous No.17532775]

>imperial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUpwa0je6_Y

[Anonymous No.17532974]

>>17532772
Who talks like that?!

[Anonymous No.17532983]

>>17523657
3/3=1

[Anonymous No.17532988]

>>17532974
what are you supposed to call it?

[Anonymous No.17532994]

>>17532640
it's true, engineers have switched over but most of still use imperial in daily life

[Anonymous No.17533005]

>>17524545
If you order a pint(e) in Quebec, they will absolutely serve you 38.5oz of beer.

[Anonymous No.17533014]

>>17532994
No I meant about it being reversed due to holding back minorities. I wanted sauce on that. Plenty of us use both.

[Anonymous No.17533021]

>>17514041
>>17514046
>>17514171
That's the fast food audience.

[Anonymous No.17533334]

>>17524418
>I'll have a 100g with cheese
With the g pronounced as gee sounds fine.

[Anonymous No.17533439]

>>17514606
finna buy a whole weed

[Anonymous No.17533458]

>>17528645
>>17528872
>>17530884
It was /q/, you retarded newfags. The post count was low because it was disabled most days.

[Anonymous No.17533475]

>>17532640