💰 Grifter "Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

[Hentai-Semitism]

I'm convinced that American food producers do this specifically to instill confusion in the minds of their customers.

The US: 90 servings per container, serving size: 1 tablespoon (14g) (example in the screenshot)
Europe and probably everywhere else: 100g or 100ml. Every single time, no exceptions.

It isn't even about metric vs. Imperial. Why can't Americans just use 1 oz. as reference? Who wants to calculate all this shit while shopping?

 

[shebangbinsh]

Why can't Americans just use 1 oz. as reference?

One Tablespoon is a half an ounce and White Americans know this. A stick of butter is 8 Tablespoons, or, 4 ounces, aka a half a cup, or a quarter pound.

 

[zeroapexpeak]

One Tablespoon is a half an ounce and White Americans know this. A stick of butter is 8 Tablespoons, or, 4 ounces, aka a half a cup, or a quarter pound.

You know for a populace that's bad at math you sure love to complicate shit with freedom units

 

[bookers]

You know for a populace that's bad at math you sure love to complicate shit with freedom units

You're likely scooping out the 'butter' with a tablespoon. Seems like the least complicated way to measure it.

 

[Legalize Asbestos]

You know for a populace that's bad at math you sure love to complicate shit with freedom units

Imperial system is just formalized folk knowledge. An inch is a thumb, your foot is a foot, an acre is how much your horse could plow in a day. One pound equals 16 ounces, a number that is easy to divide mentally for cooking and baking (halves, quarters, eighths). The gallon is divided into 4 quarts, 8 pints, and 128 fluid ounces. Again, easily divided.

The only thing the godless, heckin' science loving metric system gets right is Celsius pegging zero at freezing and 100 at boiling. Being a fucking leaf, I am cursed to use both metric and imperial and to know all conversions between the two by heart. Overwhelmingly we use imperial in daily life - again because it's intuitive and easy to portion. In carpentry it's fantastic since so much is based on body proportions. We only use metric for engineering and the CNC machines, where decimals trump fractions.

 

[bookers]

The only thing the godless, heckin' science loving metric system gets right is Celsius pegging zero at freezing and 100 at boiling.

farenheit is better for weather. 100 is hot as fuck and 0 is cold as fuck.

 

[Null]

I'm convinced that American food producers do this specifically to instill confusion in the minds of their customers.

They do. Serving size is not standardized and if you compare two of the same kind of product from different brands, you will often see different serving sizes. Additionally, there's no requirement that single serving packages list their total nutrition, so you will often see small dessert packages advertise 200kcal with "per serving" in small letters and then the little package is 2.5 servings. I have stood in aisles comparing shit like spaghetti because one brand is 83g per serving and the other is 90g and they've got slightly different protein and calories and I'm trying to figure out which is better.

Euros do consumer protection better and it's not even close.

 

[Sneeds]

@Null Is it true that these Vtubers don’t stream their Meet & Greets anymore because of Gaytor? (Link)

If that’s so it’s a shame that people can’t see these fans on stream and ridicule them

 

[Null]

@Null Is it true that these Vtubers don’t stream their Meet & Greets anymore because of Gaytor? (Link)

Yes, they all have a Gator encounter and learn why the other girls don't stream it and stop.

 

[Jotch]

I don't use Imperial because it's scentifically better, or because it's easier to use.
I use Imperial because it is the system of units my daddy gave me, and it works just fine.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

They do. Serving size is not standardized and if you compare two of the same kind of product from different brands, you will often see different serving sizes. Additionally, there's no requirement that single serving packages list their total nutrition, so you will often see small dessert packages advertise 200kcal with "per serving" in small letters and then the little package is 2.5 servings. I have stood in aisles comparing shit like spaghetti because one brand is 83g per serving and the other is 90g and they've got slightly different protein and calories and I'm trying to figure out which is better.

Euros do consumer protection better and it's not even close.

Yeah, I'd be pissed if I had to pull out a calculator just to see if something I want to buy doesn't have too much sugar. I wonder if there's some kind of Android software with OCR capable of translating American nutrition fact tables and converting them to something intelligible.

There's another problem where I live, though. Meat producers apparently aren't obligated to tell you how much meat is in food products containing GROUND meat (sausages etc.). So instead of "meat: 98g per 100g", they'll put "100g of this product was made with 130g of meat" on the packaging. It's up to you to figure out what that means.

 

[The Great One]

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