• Emilie Easie@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 days ago

    Nutrition is in grams on purpose to be confusing to a population corpos knew weren’t really raised with it. By 9th grade all Americans have studied the metric system for science class, but it never really becomes intuitive for most people whereas we can hear “a cup of sugar, oh wow that’s a LOT of sugar for just one pitcher of liquid” without doing any in-head conversions

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      21 hours ago

      When you use a cup, we use a deciliter-cup. I agree that cooking gives intuition on units. But who will buy a deciliter cup if no recipe uses deciliters?

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s an important point. Someone needs to think of the deciliter cups if they try to get rid of imperial units in the US.