Let's just pretend that metric doesn't have fractions.
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Not that they don't exist, but in my experience I have never seen them used, if something is, say, 1/2 liter you see it written as 50cl...
For burgers, I have seen
- 150gr
- 250gr
- 2 x 150gr
- 500gr
- 1kg
But maybe it's only my experience and in other parts of Europe it's different
1/2 liter is usually marked as 0,5 liter.
I want a 0.5 liter burger, please.
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Viertel Pfünder und Drittel Pfünder isjust as confusing.
Would you rather eat the 113-grammer burger? Or the 151-grammer burger?
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We can't afford bigger burgers now anyway, the price of beef is insane. And when bigger burgers are desired, they'll sell "double quarter pounders". Not that Americans generally need bigger burgers anyway, but that's a different topic.
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Do Americans need bigger burgers?
Yes
Fair question. ☝️
Had they adopted the metric system
Or at least had an education system capable of teaching basic maths
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No, Americans could have had bigger burgers if they weren't stupid.
I grew up in America and I can confirm, Americans are very dumb.
The funny thing is McDonald's also tried 1/3 lb burgers later on, and also failed.
It's probably also why they don't advertise a Big Mac is 1/5 pound of beef, because it would make the Quarter pounder lose interest I assume.
They are actually 1/10 lol. I think that's why, they don't want ppl to know how tiny those patties are. I add two patties to bring it up to 4 total at 4/10 lb, puts it 1 patty shy of a double quarter pounder.
Should have sold it as a 2/6ths burger.
The maths teachers wouldn't have been happy, but apparently the buyers would have.
"Woah, 2/6 is waayyyy bigger than 1/4, not like that teensy 1/3 burger they used to have"
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TIL fractions don't exist in the metric system.
We wouldn't normally say "I'd like a 18/100 kilogram burger"...
Yup for us its 250g vs 333g burgers. Or 0.25 vs 0.33kg
And these signs could have used ounces instead. But they didn't. We had other units available. The units weren't the issue
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well they do, but since it's metric it's always 1/10 1/100 ... and they have their own name so no math needed
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I'm gonna move the goal posts here and say smaller burgers are inherently better. I don't want to chew on a giant pile of ground beef.
You must love the smashburger trend
I love them, but I wouldn't consider them a trene. It's one of the original burgers in the U.S.
Before BK or MCDonalds. And sold at places like Steak N Shake which is fairly common.
I'd consider them a trend, at least in my area. Maybe they're not new, but I never saw them until last year and now they're everywhere.
They are less prominent by location I suppose. A lot of it likely had to do with speed. Places like McDonald's went with thin patties to compensate for speed. Krystals was one of the first chains, and they press 5 holes in each patty before they hit the grill. The smash burgers were just another way to cook them high and fast. I like them a lot but it's something I rarely do at home because the odds of setting off the smoke alarm is high. And that's annoying as all hell. Flat tops on outdoor grills are becoming more of a thing from what I've heard, which may be lending to more people making them at home. I've heard several people talking about Blackstones or what not. The American family was known to make burgers on a grill from most films, which you couldn't really make smash burgers like that with grates
Absolutely. Throw on some cheddar or muenster and drizzle some hot bbq, we're in business.
[VINCENT]
And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
[JULES]
They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
[VINCENT]
No, they don't have fractions, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter is.
[JULES]
Then what do they call it?
[VINCENT]
They call it Royale with Cheese.
No, they don't have fractions, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter is.
"No they have the metric system, they don't know what the fuck a quarter pounder is"
Fractions aren't imperial, fractions are fractions, everyone has them. It's the 'pound' that's imperial and normal people don't use.
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Sounds to me like they missed the opportunity to sell a 1/5 burger for more instead.
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I've just had a radical idea to solve obesity in America
It was more because there weren’t many A&Ws around. Closest to me was over an hour away.
This is so dumb
No one went to A&W for burgers back then, footlong chili dog and root beer.
This, exactly.
Anyone repeating this 1/4 vs 1/3 bullshit never had one of their 1/3lb burgers. They were fucking terrible. Sysco prison-grade burger patties, drowned in store-brand ketchup with a thin slice of "American"-flavored yellow #5.
Absolute worst burger I've ever had.
Growing up, A&W was for chili dogs and a big glass mug of rootbeer. Never order anything else; its always a fat sack of disappointment.
I miss it. We’d get footlongs and a gallon of root beer then go to the park across from it. I wonder if it’s still there.
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It's not like Americans need bigger food.
I see this repeated all the time and I'm sure there's some truth to it, but A&W burgers are also disgusting and more expensive than their competitors. So there's that.
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