• Comment105@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    By now it’s already been a meme for a while. That’s how these people learned that the ⅓ was bigger than the ¼.

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      4 months ago

      Nah, if you look in any American kitchen, you’ll find 1/3 cup and 1/4 cup measuring cups. They may not use them, but everyone has them, and it’s painfully obvious that the 1/4 nests inside the 1/3, therefore the 1/3 is bigger. If you want to make mac 'n cheese, you use the 1/4 for the milk, which means you’ll take it out of the 1/3 cup.

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        4 months ago

        Americans are so bad at measurements that graduation marks don’t work for them.

        They need an individual container for each common measurement.

        It’s absurd.

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          4 months ago

          Lol.

          But yes, we do have graduation marks like this one, which would also clearly label the 1/4 cup and 1/3 cup parts. Whichever one you have, it’s pretty intuitive that 1/3 > 1/4. I prefer the separate ones since they take up less space so they can go in a drawer instead of the cupboard (and I have 2-3 of each size), but to each their own.