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Gotta give the yanks the w here. We're the real losers for poisoning ourselves ever so slightly more
Don’t stret too much about it, we’re poisoning ourselves with diarrhea lettuce and PFAS potatoes
I really miss the 1/3 lb burgers at so many places that dropped them because idiots don't understand fractions...
How is it even that difficult to understand? ¼ is 25% of a pound ⅓ is 33% of a pound.
33 is a bigger number then 25. Where is the confusion coming from?
3 is smaller than 4. And they don’t understand fractions
Not a teacher, are you? lol
You'd be surprised how bad our education system is.
Where is it they're getting confused is it that people don't understand fractions or that they don't understand percentages? Because fractions are taught to 12 year olds using cake or pizza is an analogy I thought Americans would be on board with that.
I poisoned myself with these once, so I can't drink them anymore.
Fun fact: because Canada and America's economies are so intertwined but we don't use imperial measurements for products anymore, our Monster drinks come in 473ml (16 oz) cans.
What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?
They don't understand imperial either though.
Nobody understands Imperial.
No it's simple see 16oz is 1.2 flasks which is easy to remember because it's based on King Ralph's favourite cup and Ralph famously died tripping over a cocksnake (unfortunate name but I won't censor history) and what do you trip with? That's right, your feet. And how many feet do you have? Exactly, 2. Hence 1.2 flasks to 1 16oz can.
That's a ridiculous mischaracterization. The word "Ounce" derives from a word meaning "one twelfth", so just like the inch to the foot, an ounce is either one sixteenth of a queen Anne pound of wine (which is itself based on the Queen Anne gallon of wine, or 231 cubic inches of wine), or one twentieth of an imperial pint, which is an eighth of an imperial gallon, which is ten water pounds.
Flasks are a unit of mercury weight, obviously.
To be fair, that marketing language is likely pointed at the main competitor of Monster drinks in US - Red Bull. Which is a European brand and is packaged in smaller cans.
I didn't know they were European, good times
It’s a Thai and Austrian company.
This is the original Red Bull
An Austrian dude found this drink in Thailand and then negotiated a deal with the family that owns Krating Deng (Red Bull) so he could sell a fizzy version in Europe and later the rest of the world.
Thanks to that Austrian guy that Thai family is now the richest family in Thailand.
If it’s Austrian why do they use a bull instead of a kangaroo?
This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!
Full load
Bursting with real juice
Why do I feel like I'm listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?
Still traumatised by the time I ordered a slice of cherry pie in an American diner, and instead of the brobdingnagian monstrosity decades of movies and TV had accustomed me to expect I got what I can only describe as minimum viable pie.
You experienced the on going desecration of the american social contract. The diabetic-coma inducing, entirely proposturously large servings of small town diner pie is absolutely a thing. I am sorry you were cheated of this.
I'll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.
You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss
I worked at McDs during the 1/3 Angus burger and... yes. It happened, more times than I'd like. I tried convincing a couple people, then after that who cared. I was getting $8/hr. Fuck it it's a worse deal and you get a smaller burger but you do you genius.
I used to work in a deli. Our scales gave weights in decimals, people always ordered in fractions. One day someone asked for an eighth of a pound. My coworker asks me "Is that .8?" I politely told her "it's .125, so it needs to say about .13." I guess part of it was panic, maybe if she had thought about it for a second she would have gotten it, but to think it's more than a half pound was crazy. People ask for a half pound all the time.
We here in America are proud to measure everything in hamburgers. You Europeans using standardized measurements can get bent.
It's like an AP Honors US History book
Tell me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about without telling me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
This is exactly how propaganda works
Ah, so that's what 16oz means.
Here in the UK I see more and more places (coffee shops modelled after Starbucks mostly I guess) and places serving soft drinks mention them in ounces and I have no idea what they mean. I'm 99% sure it's illegal to do so as well, but the relentless march of USI continues.