• FluidBeef@quokk.auEnglish
    24 minutes

    Still traumatised by the time I ordered a slice of cherry pie in an American diner, and instead of the brobdingnagian monstrosity decades of movies and TV had accustomed me to expect I got what I can only describe as minimum viable pie.

  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Full load

    Bursting with real juice

    Why do I feel like I’m listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?

  • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 hours

    Ah, so that’s what 16oz means.

    Here in the UK I see more and more places (coffee shops modelled after Starbucks mostly I guess) and places serving soft drinks mention them in ounces and I have no idea what they mean. I’m 99% sure it’s illegal to do so as well, but the relentless march of USI continues.

    • Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4 hours

      Its illegal if its US customary floz. Needs to be British imperial floz along side metric unless its for certain products (milk, beer etc)

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
      1 hour

      As funny as it is, someone could just as accurately say to you “What’s more Lemmy than commenting without understanding?”

      This is a marketing statement against the smaller cans of other energy drinks on American shelves next to it. They are well under 500ml, usually closer to 250ml.

      Nobody should buy this garbage anyway, but that’s just my opinion.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        45 minutes

        Nooo they can’t mean the most famous energy drink in the world with its uniquely small can that shares a shelf with it! They MUST mean the European Monster cans that exist on the other side of the planet!

    • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      It’s not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.

      • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
        16 minutes

        found the bot (i.e. responding to a throwaway joke in the text whilst completely oblivious to the image that made it clear what it was actually about)

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
          1 hour

          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.

          • prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
            48 minutes

            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.

      • M137@lemmy.world
        10 hours

        They don’t understand insert basically anything either though.

        • darthelmet@lemmy.world
          10 hours

          Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!

        • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
          8 hours

          I mean, one would hope that a nation would know at least one system. If they tell me one more time “it just makes more sense” about stupid fahrenheit it will be too much.

          The freezing and boiling points of MALT does not a good system make!

          • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
            6 hours

            I’ve always explained °Fwith:

            0° = Cold AF

            100° = Hot AF

            50° = Chilly, but manageable

            • qyron@sopuli.xyz
              3 hours

              For Celsius

              0º - water becomes solid - it’s cold

              25º - water is refreshing - ideal temperature

              50º - water is scalding - dangerous

              100º - water is boiling - guaranteed serious injure territory from this point forward

              And, since nobody seems to reach an agreement…

              For Kelvin

              0º - matter has ceased to move; collapse of matter and reality as we understand it - it’s cold

              273.15º - water is remains solid - still cold

              298.15º - water is a fluid, drinkable, safe to enter - ideal temperature

              323.15º - water is capable of delivering serious injuries upon contact - dangerous

              373.15º - water is passing into vapour form at high rythm - avoid proximity and all contact from this point forward

            • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3 hours

              This is not the explanation you think it is, over there.

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      6 hours

      I accidentally put my rental car into kph, and it really threw me. I glanced down and it said I was doing 119. Panic face for a minute there.

    • Varesti@lemmy.zip
      5 hours

      The 151.1959447 gram burger has such a nice ring to it!

  • Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
    13 hours

    I’ll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.

    • Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf
      13 hours

      You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss

    • M137@lemmy.world
      10 hours

      I really like the taste, I wish I could get something with it that wasn’t an energy drink and with a lot less sugar (light/sugar sugarfree anything makes me feel sick so that’s not an option).

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        1 hour

        People come to like what they consume regularly. People’s insecure clinging to dietary preferences is so short sighted, pointless, and harmful.

        • pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
          1 hour

          I buy energy drinks once in a blue moon, and they taste like nothing else. Chastising people for their taste preference is short sighted, pointless, harmful, and stupid.

      • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pub
        3 hours

        I dont like the normal energy drinks, they indeed taste like piss, but oh my gawd all these fucking sour apple guava fruit punched in my face shit tastes great 😭 please Lemmy, give me an alternative

  • pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    20 hours

    To be fair, that marketing language is likely pointed at the main competitor of Monster drinks in US - Red Bull. Which is a European brand and is packaged in smaller cans.

      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
        14 hours

        It’s a Thai and Austrian company.

        This is the original Red Bull

        An Austrian dude found this drink in Thailand and then negotiated a deal with the family that owns Krating Deng (Red Bull) so he could sell a fizzy version in Europe and later the rest of the world.

        Thanks to that Austrian guy that Thai family is now the richest family in Thailand.

        • taj@lemmy.world
          12 hours

          This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!

        • Airfried@piefed.socialEnglish
          11 hours

          It’s an Austrian company even though 51% of it is still owned by the Yoovidhya family. They co-founded the company in Austria with Mateschitz and hold the current patent. But it’s still an Austrian company, not a Thai one. At least I could find nothing that clearly states it’s legally Thai in any capacity.

        • Malyca@lemmy.zip
          13 hours

          Crazy story! I’m so glad it worked out for each party.

      • horse@feddit.org
        7 hours

        I hate to ruin things for you, but the founder was a right wing piece of shit.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      18 hours

      I don’t know about the US, but in Canada Red Bull comes in 250ml, 355ml, and 500ml sizes.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip
    13 hours

    Wonder if this could be a lawsuit like that dude that sued redbull for not really giving you wings.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
      13 hours

      Probably not since the actual thing they are likely referring to with that sentence is the 250ml Red Bull can.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    22 hours

    Pretty sure this is a poke at 8oz Red Bulls and not their own brand… But, you know, anything to make fun of the idiot Americans, eh?

    • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Well… yes. Yes, kinda. The “1/3 is smaller than 1/4” is a real thing being referenced, and how smart is that?

    • Codpiece@feddit.uk
      22 hours

      I thought it was that most Americans would be too ignorant to know that the European one is larger anyway and they wouldn’t bother to check. They’d just think “fuck yeah, murica” or something, and get back to their 78 hour working week.

      • Zulu@lemmy.world
        21 hours

        Hey! Thats 78hr workweek, no healthcare, and poorer living conditions to you! (Plus delivering food on the side so we have money to lose on sports betting)

    • Axolotl@feddit.it
      14 hours

      Wait but they do sell a 16 oz one according to redbull

      I don’t live in the US of A, tho

        • Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
          55 minutes

          4.9% is the alcohol percentage, 12% is the sugar percentage that was present at the start of the brewing.

          Didn’t find a better source that this wiki page. There’s another similar sugar related unit which is degree…

          All inferior as it is an indirect measure of the amount of alcohol in the can.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
        20 hours

        Funnily enough, that would be pretty hard to find in Estonia these days, only a few alcohol stores carry Russian stuff anymore

        Very multi-cultural though, you got a “czech style” beer made in Russia from Estonia

        Of course the truly big beers come in 2 liter bottles and are consumed by… well let’s say not the favourite customers of store clerks working in small grocery stores in small towns.

        • 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world
          17 hours

          Apparently that is actually the measurement of gravity in the Plato scale. The beer has 4.9% abv, and 12 degrees of gravity (??)

          Here’s what I found from wikipedia

          “By considering the original gravity, the brewer or vintner obtains an indication as to the probable ultimate alcoholic content of their product. The OE (original extract) is often referred to as the “size” of the beer and is, in Europe, often printed on the label as Stammwürze or sometimes just as a percent. In the Czech Republic, for example, common descriptions are “10 degree beers”, “12 degree beers” which refer to the gravity in Plato of the wort before the fermentation.”

          • cabillaud@lemmy.worldEnglish
            16 hours

            I didn’t even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
      19 hours

      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?

      • M137@lemmy.world
        11 hours

        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.

      • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 hours

        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”

          • amio@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3 hours

            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)

      • remon@ani.social
        19 hours

        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.

        • Butiki@mander.xyz
          18 hours

          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!

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
          13 hours

          Because deciliters is proper metric notation. We don’t count large distances in millimeters.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21 hours

    Sucks, too, because 1/3 pound was the right size. Two 1/4 pound patties are too much, which is the only option now, since, yes, Americans are poorly educated. And, it’s getting worse.

    I’m not blaming teachers, at all. Their hands are tied by admin and parents.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19 hours

      just get the 1/10 lb patties like the value burgers and add 2 more on.

  • Jax@sh.itjust.works
    12 hours

    Imagine drinking and eating garbage when it’s literally cheaper, healthier, and tastier to cook for yourself

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        1 hour

        Flavour is one of the lowest dietary priorities. If you eat it regularly and it is remotely similar to food, you will come to enjoy it. Why not fall in love with something you control rather than with something a corporation is openly trying to use to control YOU??