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Einstein-Landauer culinary units (www.smbc-comics.com)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (26 children)

Still a more acceptable measurement than “1 cup”.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 weeks ago (25 children)

The whole point of cups is that you can buy an ingredient by the gallon and it's very likely that you can double or halve the recipe to your heart's content and eventually use up the entire package with no waste.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

What’s a gallon?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

A little more than 4.5 liters. Except a certain nearby country uses a little less than 3.8 liters as their gallon, so we get all sorts of "smaller than a gallon" packages labeled as a gallon, leading to people getting ripped off if they don't realize they're being sold something less than a gallon as if it were a full gallon.

In other words, the gallon is the original shrinkflation unit of measure.

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