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Americans definitely love their larger 1/4 lb’ers over the smaller European 1/3 lb patties (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Is that centiliters? I wasn't aware that was a commonly used unit. I've only ever seen ml. But how does the 50+6.5 thing work? Is there like a second reservoir, or is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes, Switzerland is weirdly obsessed with centilitres, not sure why. But it's metric so it's not a big deal.

    is it just a different way of saying 56.5cl?

    Yes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    We have cl on a lot of stuff here too, in northern Europe. And many recipes use deciliters! Love deciliters! Metric is fun! And as a small side rant, honestly cups can go to hell, worst way to measure for a recipe! Liquids, sure if you must, but flour and sugar needs to be by weight goddammit!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Common enough in a drinks context. But really, that doesn't matter because it's metric: you're not going to end up with 4269 fartbuckets to the whateverthefuck. Instead it says centi so it's a 100th of the thing, which is barely even mental arithmetic at all.

    It's slightly larger than the standard 500ml can, the + is because they'd like to emphasize the "bonus"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I know the prefixes, I just hadn't seen it used with liquid like that

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Prefixes aren't specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you're talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux... go nuts.

    (This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone's height are common)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    right, I'm fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I'm guessing each country (or perhaps it's more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I'm sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it's just not something I've seen someone doing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's basically just saying "hey, it's more than 50cl!" (Which is a common can size). It's a pretty stupidly small amount to have different cans and advertise for IMO, at least make it 10cl more.

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