My American wife: "My mom called, she was gonna get us a bushel of apples but she accidentally bought two pecks..."
Me: 😐 "OH MY GOD USE KILOS"
🇺🇲👰: "It's a volumetric measurement"
Me: "LITRES"
4-year-old daughter: "Dad, litres aren't real"
🇺🇲👰: I just saw your BLATANT MISREPRESENTATION of our conversation on Mastodon
Me: I thought it was pretty accurate
🇺🇲👰: My mom got us a HALF BUSHEL when we wanted a PECK
Me: ...
🇺🇲👰: You country invented this measurement you know
@ifixcoinops How many cups are in a bushel, and tablespoons?🤣
@ghostdancer don't get me bloody started on cups
@ifixcoinops I recently discovered that there are US cups and English/British cups, as if it were not already a crazy way to measure.
@ghostdancer It's like that for everything, there's the actual imperial units that nobody uses and then there's the VERY SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT American units with the same names for no reason
@ifixcoinops @ghostdancer yeah, but the US cup is 250 mL and the UK cup is "whatever holds liquid and is in the cupboard"
Quite frustrating when you find a recipe using cups. I have lots of cups, and they are all different sizes.
@keverets @ifixcoinops
@keverets @ifixcoinops @ghostdancer I have a set of physical measuring cups that's labeled in both cups and ml.
1 cup == 250ml
1/4 cup == 60ml
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@T045T The Heisenberg cup , it only decides which kind of cup it is when you pour something to it 🤣 @keverets @ifixcoinops
@keverets@social.librem.one @ifixcoinops@mastodon.social @ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org the UK cup is not used for measurement because it's already full of tea
@keverets The US cup is 240 ml , the metric cup (yes there's another one) is 250 ml and the Imperial one IIRC is something around 280 ml. What I still don't understand is why use them instead of weight for solids. @ifixcoinops