Most butter has tablespoon markings printed on the wrapper, but lard and solid vegetable shortening generally do not.
Oh, I can understand using handfuls, cups, spoons, etc, _back then_, but not now. Many of them seem to think it's 'unAmerican' to use scales, especially if you measure in grams.
Often 2 or more sizes written on the sole of the shoe, for different markets. These are often meaningless if it's a narrow shoe design and you have a wide foot :(
No standard sizes for clothes marked in small, medium, large, XL etc.
Possibly the marking of weight/capacity for things like sand and compost which can be packed dry or wet depending on the weather doesn't guarantee the quantity you get. My last purchase of sand was in a bag marked large.
I think it will happen that way, but its not an emotional matter for me. I don't care what units are in play, as longs as I know what they are. Peole will go along with whatever seems best for them
Japanese post waq all used American threads..
Practice. About ten years ago I stared doing daily killer sudoko. Now I have so much stuff memorised that I simply don't need to even work out what three unique numbers add up to 23 etc etc. In order to get us through the 11+ we did at least one quick mental arithmetic test very maths lesson for 5 minutes at the end. Headmaster would fire stuff at us - whats 2/6d plus 1/8d?. What's 51 divided by three? We learnt.
Post war my mum never had scales, but she had teaspoons, dessert spoons and so on. I learnt to cook by just watching how much went in. Only with cakes did she weigh things out exactly, when we finally got an old set of scales
Butter used to be sold in 8oz blocks which was easy to cut in half and half again down to an oz. More difficult nowadays in 250g blocks as it has to be divided into 5 - though they do print a guide on the wrapping.
Do they still eat with their fork in their right hand as a family only has one knife between them?
Most are taught to hold a knife in the right hand and a fork in the left, cut a piece of food, then put down the knife, switch the fork to the right hand, shove the food in their mouth, then switch again for the next bite.
Only with heavys, light aircraft still use volume.
Not really and the fuel is actually measured by volume not weight when the heavy is filled.
Its more complicated than that with stuff that packs down differently like with flour etc.
And with modern digital kitchen scales much easier to do too.
And much easier to just keep adding incredients to the bowl with the scales zeroed between ingredients too. And you don't have the measuring cup to wash when you use the scales either.
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