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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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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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

    This must be from AI since it is so confidently wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Genuine curiosity, other than the Queen Anne pound of wine (a joke I meant to contrast the imperial gallon's definition) and saying "Queen Anne gallon of wine" instead of the "wine gallon" defined by Queen Anne in 1707 (now referred to as the "Queen Anne wine gallon"), which parts are incorrect?

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