Had they adopted the metric system
Or at least had an education system capable of teaching basic maths
You’re from the UK I presume then? 🙂
Americans if they adopted the metric system: “.25kg > .5kg”
Classic.
“.25kg > .5kg”
Which one of those is a third?
0.25 > 0.3
0.03333333333333333~
Missed a bit
The likely answer lol
But that’s easy to solve by just adding a zero to .5
.25kg < .50kg
Though I could see some profit seeking companies selling a .250 burger for 25% more than their .25 burger.
Let’s just pretend that metric doesn’t have fractions.
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.
No it’s 500 mL
SI says either 0.5 Liter or better 0.0005 m^3
? No it isn’t
It depends on the country.
Yes it is, living in Brazil all my life and I’ve** seen it and wrote it myself that way
Edit: one to I’ve, stupid gboard has gotten so fucking bad with
shippingswipping latelyOh ok cool never been to brazil
Depends where you live, but it definitely is
Would you rather eat the 113-grammer burger? Or the 151-grammer burger?
Yes.
metric system
Is this one of those intentionally-obviously-wrong comments designed to encourage people to comment on the meme?
No, Americans could have had bigger burgers if they weren’t stupid.
It’s not like Americans need bigger food.
Why does this meme have a veggie burger?
Is it a vegan meme?
How do you spot a meat eater? They’ll tell you.
Just pointing out the odd choice of pictures.
It’s obviously not a A&W burger or from McDonald’s.
In fact I don’t think either chain had a vegetarian option in the ‘80’s but I could be wrong.
I just found the picture with the caption during a web search for such an infographic. Only the Goodfellas-part is from me. But does it matter what kind of burger it is?
Only for the quality of the meme. And seeing as this is the comment section of the “memes” comm, it seems like the perfect place to discuss just that topic. If this was in shitposts then yeah, who cares. But since it is this comm, people are going to critique things more minutely.
If you’re happy with it that’s all that matters.
I almost commented that I’d never seen the burger attached to this story before and if that’s what it was, it may not have been the fractions!
The meme is literally about two fast food restaurants and the quantity of ground beef they sell. It’s not like he was stretching to point out that’s a plant based burger…
I just used the opportunity to flip some of what vegans come across daily.
No one went to A&W for burgers back then, footlong chili dog and root beer.
But that can’t be right! I have it on good authority that A&W stands for Amburgers and Woot beer!
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”
Lol that’s amazing, I’m not American so I’ve not come across this ad before. Thanks.
[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.
How could OP have transcribed the movie clip so wrong, but still made an absurdist joke? Thanks for clearing it up.
I’ve been a victim of Poe’s Law, but there has to be some threshold where it’s not ambiguous.
#woosh
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
Absolutely. Throw on some cheddar or muenster and drizzle some hot bbq, we’re in business.
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
Quar ter poun der. Perfect size. Good marketing.
“A ThIRd PoUnDeR pLeASe”. Too much to chew. Bad marketing.
Do Americans need bigger burgers?
Yes
Fair question. ☝️
I will make a 1/100 pound burger, instant money machine
Americans are every bit as capable of assuming a 1/8 kg burger is bigger than a 1/6 kg burger.
It was more because there weren’t many A&Ws around. Closest to me was over an hour away.
This is so dumb
the whole meme is just euro cope
I think you meant to type “nearly every country on Earth”.
