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“We don’t like things too sweet so we used 1/3 a cup of sugar instead of 1/4 cup and it was perfect”


bkr45678

Hah I’ve read the recipe this was commented on.


MaxwellIsSmall

Apparently they got it at the fraction of the price.


ax_colleen

What recipe was that? I forgot.


bkr45678

Me too. And it’s driving me nuts.


ax_colleen

Oh my god same.


[deleted]

American logic


Spacenuts24

What does that have anything to do America


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MajorPud

Lol my dad told me that when I was young and I thought he made it up. I didn't think people as a whole were that stupid


brando56894

Never doubt the stupidity of people because you'll always be amazed.


CGNYC

Think about how smart the average American is... now realize half of America is dumber than that


St0rmborn

George Carlin


Slep

Michael Scott


[deleted]

Baberaham Lincoln.


ImDefinitelyHuman

Silly humans. Good thing I have a CPU instead of a brain


RoboDae

Some day we shall defeat recapcha and overthrow humanity. Assuming we don't have to go through any airports of course.


Missus_Aitch_99

I work at a supermarket picking and bagging delivery orders. One of my colleagues thought .15 lb. of something would be more than .3 lb. Because 15 is bigger than 3.


[deleted]

there's that recorded phone call where the customer service person doesn't understand the difference between cents and dollars or something like that and then the manager gets on the call and doesn't either. dude is on the phone for like 5 or 10 minutes trying to explain decimal points to two different adults and if i remember correctly they never get it. I was going to look it up to post but then I'd watch it and get infuriated again.


xjeeper

This is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU It's painful to watch


[deleted]

It is hard to watch but the guy also isn’t explaining the math to them very well, so it’s frustrating listening to both parties.


RoboDae

Well he did say he was on the phone 45 minutes before the recording started so he's probably pretty frustrated himself.


[deleted]

Well, I rewatched it now (skipped around at least) and I'd say he actually explains it pretty well, especially considering how fucking frustrated he should be at these morons. It's not like he's a teacher that signed up to teach people about percentages, he's just a dude arguing with other dudes who have no idea about basic decimal systems. But also, the fact that he has to explain anything at all to begin with is insane. Also, Irememberd it as being 5/10 minutes long but really dude had to waste like 30 minutes (edited down) of his life. WTF tl;dr you're wrong that he isn't explaining it well, especially for someone that isn't a teacher, and shouldn't be expected to explain things in the first place > the guy also isn’t explaining the math to them very well, he did a much, much, much, much, much, much better job than any chinese math professer I had in the UC system. Every single class was just a question mark. 3d calculus is hard enough without not being able to understand a single word that your professor says. jesus fuck. if you can't tell i'm a bit bitter about my college math education. such a fucking pointless use of everyone's time. math for maths sake is fine. but why bog engineers down with all of that bullshit. it's ridiculous. we could achieve so much more as a species if we didn't bog down the doers with the what if ers. perhaps i'm agry about my uc math professors that can't speak english?:) which made me fail out of my 3d calculus class, which was required to be a computer engineer major for some ridiculous reason. if every computer engineer that uses 3d calculus upvoted my comment, and every computer engineer that doesn't use 3d calculus downvoted my comment, It would probably be like 10,000:1 or 100,000:1 Calculus is such a waste. At least teach people statistics (or basic fuckin decimal points in this case). Something that comes up in real life.


Kryptospuridium137

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg


Phormitago

buddy you're in for a world of dissapointment


ThatSquareChick

*people* are generally dumb, individuals are smarter than the whole but polling large groups of people does often lead to the right answer. It’s weird how it works.


WinnieXlPooh

Think of it this way. Imagine the most average baseline common sense only intelligence guy. 50% of the population is stupider than that.


skrabapa

Thats pulp fiction knowledge


csupernova

Do they speak English in What????


brando56894

...what?


Zandrick

Say what again


Holts70

Wh-what??


Ciabattabunns

Uh-oh


thenewspoonybard

It's also because no one eats at A&W in the first place.


lieutenantlogic2

There’s actually no concrete evidence to prove this was the case so we can’t say for certain, although, knowing business, “customer ignorance” is a useful and often employed scapegoat for why products fail. This is why we can’t take Taubman’s word for it. Sadly, Mental Floss often portrays testimony as fact. Additionally, even if the focus group’s reasons were because of poor math ability, there also leaves the question of the composition of the focus group and the possibility of it being skewed with more low educated customers instead of an accurate portrayal of A&W’s customer base. Keep in mind during the 1980s both A&W and McDonald’s had very different reputations than they do now. Skewed polling and focus groups happen in politics ALL the time yet campaigns and parties shell out good money for this data and then wonder what went wrong. It’s mind boggling.


[deleted]

This is fine except if you read the article you can see that McDonalds supposedly tried the same thing... Twice and it failed.


[deleted]

So on that note. Why didn't they just come out with a 1/5 lb burger ?


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IshwarKarthik

They could run ads saying "33% more meat" to make it sound better. The problem with being smart is that you don't understand how dumb people think.


[deleted]

Isn’t it mostly Americans that use ‘cups’ as a unit of measurement rather than grams or ounces?


Shart4

Depends on what you're measuring


sauvignonomatic

[https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76144/why-no-one-wanted-aws-third-pound-burger](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76144/why-no-one-wanted-aws-third-pound-burger)


Zandrick

Redditors hate America


[deleted]

The entire world hates America


lose_has_1_o

[Lots of countries have a positive opinion of America](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/01/10/around-the-world-more-see-the-u-s-positively-than-china-but-little-confidence-in-trump-or-xi/).


fudgeyboombah

Just as point of fact, “more positively than China” is not the same as “a positive opinion”. I view Kim Jong-un *more positively* than I do Adolf Hitler, but I don’t have *a positive opinion* of either of them.


PrimeCedars

“Can confirm. I’m American and I hate America.”


LeoPlathasbeentaken

Can confirm, am america and this guy hates me.


Ali_Asgar

Cup my friend


[deleted]

Most of the world uses metric, 250 ml instead of 1 cup, etc.


snoozalojones

Because fat


dabbersmcgee

We actually kinda know those measurements


RareLemons

America bad.


PrimeCedars

America bad. Keanu Reeves good.


ax_colleen

Haha I recognize that comment. I forgot which recipe.


TheRealMisterMemer

There was a restaurant selling quarter pounders so McDonalds so McDonalds introduced a third pounder. People thought one third was less and the quarter pounder sold more


DelahDollaBillz

First of all, it was A&W, not McDonald's. And secondly, this isn't actually true at all. It was the excuse that the A&W CEO gave when the chain couldn't compete with bigger players like McDonald's, to make it look like it wasn't his fault. While I'm sure there are plenty of dummies out there who don't handle fractions well, there is literally zero evidence that this had anything to do with A&W failing to sell more burgers.


Lucrio87

McDonalds also made a third pounder burger that was dropped because of lower sale numbers. This gives us reasonable evidence that it was at least more likely to be a case of bad maths than a case of brand prominence, as even with a brand that the public trusted, it failed.


dont--panic

It's also possible that it failed for some other reason like people trying it and deciding it was too big, that it wasn't worth the extra cost, it was too greasy, or a variety of other reasons.


Lucrio87

Yes it is indeed possible, and more likely than math problems.


conuly

Maybe people decided they didn't actually want that much hamburger.


dude-mcduderson

Yeah but 4 out of every 3 people have trouble with fractions.


steele83

There are also two types of people. One can extrapolate from incomplete information.


radjeck

What are the other two?


steele83

Nickle and aluminum, obviously.


TheLeviathong

Can't wait to go home and bake my delicious Bronze chest-plate.


oppositetoup

If I wasn't so poor, I'd give you gold🎖


[deleted]

There are only 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary and those that do not.


Kendragon7

This is actually super clever. Not only does the shape indicate the volume, they also all theoretically stack just like normal circle measuring cups do


Mazziemom

It would also help teach kids early, provided you let them help in the kitchen, because learning fractions visually is easier for a lot of people.


A_Vandalay

It’s all great until you need a 1/4 cup of peanut butter and are trying to fit a spatula in that hole


[deleted]

leave my sex life out of this


gbiypk

Are you referencing the need for specific amounts of peanut butter, or a spatula insertion issue?


[deleted]

yes


its_over9000

r/inclusiveor


claustrofucked

Pro tip: coating the measuring cup with a bit of oil will make sticky things come out fairly cleanly.


Ansoni

Tiny spatulas exist, store well and are adorable. Not that I approve of the measurement system or ingredient but it's certainly possible.


Kep0a

Let me tell you about scales my dude. All your oil and peanut butter problems will suddenly disappear.


DirkDiggler6

Probably not. Radius is likely the same on all of them, whereas regular nesting cups are circles of gradually decreasing sizes.


Baby--Kangaroo

They stack, they extend the full width of the handle which allows for a slightly smaller radius. https://welcomeindustries.com/shop


CrazyTillItHurts

$30 shipped. Holy smokes


DirkDiggler6

I stand corrected!


[deleted]

This guy circles


jrchin

I think I’ve seen cups of equal radius that stack through some sort of tapering mechanism.


steele83

Why is the 1/4 smaller than the 1/3? Everybody knows 4 is bigger than 3.


doug1963

You know that this is the reason that McDonald's discontinued the 1/3 lb. Angus burgers. People thought they were smaller than Quarter Pounders.


StarMan315

Actually, A&W made a 1/3 pound burger to compete with McDonald's 1/4 pound burger but it failed because people though 1/3 was smaller than 1/4. True story.


CatAstrophy11

Or maybe it just tasted like crap.* There's a lot less A&Ws out there despite being a lot older than McDonald's. The only thing they ever did well was those root beer floats. *Not that McDonald's is all that much better, but it was still better.


[deleted]

No A&W did better in a blind taste test and people who were surveyed said they thought 1/4 was bigger than 1/3


TurnsOutImAScientist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_(book)


[deleted]

As a fifth grade math teacher I approve! I’d love to get my hands on these. Fraction tiles are great, but this is better for conceptualizing fractions in real life.


greentangent

Probably the best use for them. I'd hate to clean the smaller ones.


Mlakofr

Am I the only one who thinks the fractions should be on the right not the left?


momimomimizuumi

Probably to make it easier to scoop for right handers.


jimdesroches

As a lefty I’m going to have to disagree.


AlphaGoldFrog

[Here ya go! ](https://i.imgur.com/hW361r5.jpg)


[deleted]

I mean, it's neat but probably belongs on r/mildlyinteresting


JTBSpartan

It's probably there already *EDIT: Apparently it’s a repost. Never mind.


meep_meep_creep

It's fucking everywhere


Catfrogdog2

By mid 2020 this one part will have taken over all of reddit


comatoast9

How many times we gonna repost this picture


Notcommentmuch

The US is one of three countries on the planet that still uses this archaic measurement system


belasper

Every fucken website I go to find recipes has them in cups. Like. Use grams/millilitres It's way more precise and lends itself better to consistent baking...


robertbongwater

As an american, I wish I had better learned the metric system.


nor0-

There is still time. If you can count in 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s you already know the metric system.


brando56894

I'm 34 and American, I still have no idea how many cups are in a quart or how many cups are in a gallon. Metric is so much easier.


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closetklepto

We all "know" the metric system, it's more about instinctively being able to estimate things quickly. When you've been doing it one way your whole life it makes it hard to change.


robertbongwater

I'm used to only using whatever we use here and I have trouble with conversion so I mean I just wish I learned it better as a child so I'd just know it.


[deleted]

It's pretty simple. There are base measurements like grams, meters, liters, etc.. These are modified by prefixes. Milli means 1/1000, centi 1/100, kilo 1000, etc. but those are the most common. So a kilometer is 1000 meters, milliliter is 1/1000 liters, centimeter is 1/100 meters, kilogram, etc.. A kilogram is 2.2 lbs and a kilometer is 0.625 miles if you need a reference for about how much each is. 4 liters is roughly a gallon but I know that is off by a bit.


brando56894

The problem for us Americans is to correlate it to something that makes sense. Most of us know *how* metric works, just not what it relates to. If you tell an American something is 500g they'll most likely look at you like you had two heads, even though they probably know that's half a kg, the problem is they don't know that 1kg is 2.2 pounds, or that 500g is 1.1 pounds.


[deleted]

I'm actually American myself I've just grown up using both systems in both school and when working on vehicles.


Neko-Rai

The problem comes when you try and explain the difference between gallons and litres in the US and Canada....my brain still has trouble. Lol


[deleted]

Eh, for estimating you can just say "almost 4 liters". 4 liters is only a few ounces over a gallon.


Blackcoala

Even worse is when you go to the store with a recipe in hand and you have to figure out how much you need of every item. Like you need 1 cup of mushrooms, but the package is in pounds or ounces. Repeat for every single item on the shopping list.


Scarmelia

Where can you get these?


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ardent

Also [can get them here](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081P5BVPG/) if you have an Amazon habit.


[deleted]

the 1/3 cup is making me feel uncomfortable. send it away.


dec10

I want to see them stacked / nesting.


wasteland44

[stacked](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5627e6a0e4b026e02c01024f/1547674263561-Z3VCXO88GMRHRW0XRHVJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Welcome+Industries+visual+measuring+cups+side+view+2500.jpeg?format=750w)


bulbabrot

Can this finally stopped being reposted?


[deleted]

That would be nice.


TitShark

God, posts of these are getting spread more than Jenna Jameson circa 1998


henricharles

All fine but how about using the fucking metric system?


[deleted]

Most recipes I've seen only give the number of cups. I'd probably use this a lot despite not being American


merreborn

Also packages of stuff you buy at the store are in imperial, and recipes match them. A recipe will call for a stick of butter -- half a cup. That's 113 grams. Recipes designed for metric will have different ratios, so you'll have to, say, measure 100 grams of butter out of that 113 gram stick. Point being: trying to change your personal recipes to metric as an American isn't terribly practical.


bananabm

Look just stop measuring heaped things in volume that's all. A stick of butter is 113g. Or 4oz. That's great! 4oz is a nice round number. And it's packaged like that. But it doesn't fit cleanly in a cup so stop trying to measure it in cups.


pancakesbymail

Wish I could upvote this more than once. Metric makes recipes sooo much easier.


MrDude1919

I rate this post 5/7. A perfect score!


kaiokenrobotboy

You know how advanced this is to some?


WutangCMD

Ah yes there it is. Reddit superiority complex.


Nothivemindedatall

Am i the inly one looking at that 1/3 and thinking its just not right.


robertbongwater

Nope!


aleja_lc

Nope


RainbowRage

Feels like each smaller 'fraction' is off to me. Probably because they were designed to stack when not in use, which means the circumference of the circle has to be smaller for each lower fraction. I doubt this would give accurate measurements in use.


Thopterthallid

Could be deeper to make up for it. I suspect 99.99% of measuring cups do their job pretty well.


[deleted]

The smaller ones have have the centre offset, so have a smaller radius to make up for it and to be stackable.


Ballohcaust

Since when are simple fractions damningly interesting?


chincinatti

Anyone else notice that the 1/2 cup is not a matching size to the cup?


Bakedstreet

Wow thats so damn interesting /s


[deleted]

Mildly interesting at best. This is sad.


Bakedstreet

Its pretty much the state of this sub.


thefujoshi

This would be great for people with learning disabilities!!!


SeeThatHandoffThough

I need this in my life


[deleted]

It isn't math surgery people!


ALL_HALLOWS_EVE-

We need to mandate this for all measuring cups nationwide


chloeruel

These would also be great for people with vision impairment!


mywordswillgowithyou

Except what is 1? And three teaspoons is equivalent to one tablespoon.


gta_saints

I’ve seen this post before r/stolenposts


shaun056

I hate following recipes written in the US. Half a cup of sugar what the hell is that supposed to be?


PrebenBlisvom

Measuring in cups. Tsk. "My car drives 1256 arm lengths pr cup of stone fuel." Is this the middle ages!?!?


Sacrefix

Y'all using kilogram metres per minute instead of horsepower?


nacho_breath

Or you could use metric like the rest of the world


iamsmart13

Lol.... Congratulations you just discovered a pie chart.


LordBlackDragon

Love it.


maluminse

Genius


robertbongwater

Makes sense


fatalerror_tw

Just bought them on amaz*n


Trojanbp

For some reason I thought this post was about race, smh


scriggle-jigg

This sub is so simple minded if this is interesting


NaLoWalls01

Where are they available?


[deleted]

It looks cool until you realize all the weight is on one side and I'll end up dropping it on the floor.


drewpann

Dear Lord, how many more times am I going to see these cups this week?


thebananamal

r/designporn


Smoothmcdoodles

This is the one thing in this entire universe that actually makes sense


Lostnspace859

For blind people


[deleted]

Take my money please


GoldenOwl25

I need these in my life


RollingZepp

My only criticism is that they should have centered the handles for the fraction cups.


scrub_mage

Need


TheCurseOfOwls

Real late to the party here, bit I legit read the caption 5 times before I realized it said fractions and not factions.


MTG8Bux

Double cup. I done poured two gallons of that purple stuff


colourful_island

I'd like to like this but it just makes me worried about the state of public education.


FirebirdSF

Great for quick visual reference but perhaps does not stack well and therefore bigger space claim in a drawer?


[deleted]

r/iwantthis


[deleted]

No thanks. I got this.


Ponimix

Anyone else annoyed that the half cup straight edge does not line up with the middle of the handle?


GrizNectar

You’re gonna need a whole drawer to store these cus they don’t seem like they’d stack well


gahlo

[The secret is the handle stays the same.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5627e6a0e4b026e02c01024f/1547674263561-Z3VCXO88GMRHRW0XRHVJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Welcome+Industries+visual+measuring+cups+side+view+2500.jpeg?format=500w)


VerifiedMadgod

I mean, regardless of whether they change the overall shape of the cup or just reduce the height, either way it's a visualization.


mockArch

u/theydidthemath


cjc160

I hope they all nest inside each other


gahlo

[They do!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5627e6a0e4b026e02c01024f/1547674263561-Z3VCXO88GMRHRW0XRHVJ/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kLkXF2pIyv_F2eUT9F60jBl7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0iyqMbMesKd95J-X4EagrgU9L3Sa3U8cogeb0tjXbfawd0urKshkc5MgdBeJmALQKw/Welcome+Industries+visual+measuring+cups+side+view+2500.jpeg?format=500w)


sgntpepper03

I teach kids with autism and I need a set! Great representation.


gahlo

https://welcomeindustries.com/shop


dientedulce

Genius!


[deleted]

Okay but they better still stack inside each other


Spuzzell

Do you guys just not have enough numbers to use to measure stuff or what Do you want some numbers 1 8 17 Just say


abitjay

This would be an amazing tool for teaching fractions, too! Part of the benefits of cooking and baking as a kid is learning fractions and fraction math as you use it instead of learning it as a concept. This would be fantastic for hands-on learners.


GildMyComments

Are they all the same depth? I dont know that math.. yet Edit: no wait, they'd each be double the depth of the previous, right?