Gotta give the yanks the w here. We’re the real losers for poisoning ourselves ever so slightly more
Don’t stret too much about it, we’re poisoning ourselves with diarrhea lettuce and PFAS potatoes
I really miss the 1/3 lb burgers at so many places that dropped them because idiots don’t understand fractions…
How is it even that difficult to understand? ¼ is 25% of a pound ⅓ is 33% of a pound.
33 is a bigger number then 25. Where is the confusion coming from?
3 is smaller than 4. And they don’t understand fractions
No one in the world has ever accused Americans of being smart.
The bodacious bacon cheeseburger at Roy Rogers.
They were slightly elongated but otherwise the same, bacon, cheese, zesty ranch. Served on a matching elongated bun.
It’s like an AP Honors US History book
Tell me you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about without telling me you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Can someone tell me what they’re trying to say with that line? Does someone in the Monster marketing department think the covers of history textbooks are… Exciting?
“This isn’t a drink for some woke liberal blue-haired nerd!”
It almost feels like negging. They’re somehow trying to appeal to the non-nerd by playing up fake nerd cred? I don’t know. It’s entirely too confusing.
Well besides not having enough education to know AP and Honors classes are different things; they’re trying to raise a patriot boner when some maga walks up to the drink case so they’ll buy the can. ~“This drink is so patriotic that you’ll be an expert in US history, and (take a shot at europe because magas are anti-europe) this ain’t no small European can,” referencing the tendency for 330ml (11.1oz) cans in the eu instead of the 12oz (~473ml)
The funny thing is I don’t think I’ve ever seen the 330 ml monster can. Not that I really been looking since I’ve had one monster drink at one point in my life, and felt like I was gonna die.
I only do energy drinks if I’m on the road for long hours late at night, just before i know i’m going to get tired and I slowly ramp up until i get tired again anyway.
Caffeine has more of a subtle effect on me.
I’m convinced that most marketing copy is ai generated these days.
Appropriate since a lot of LLMs sound like their training data had way too much marketing copy in it. It’s like a circular human centipede.
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.
You experienced the on going desecration of the american social contract. The diabetic-coma inducing, entirely proposturously large servings of small town diner pie is absolutely a thing. I am sorry you were cheated of this.
“Contract” 💀💀💀
That’ll be 15 dollars
Full load
Bursting with real juice
Why do I feel like I’m listening to an ad on Radio Los Santos?
perfectly tart
What’s more ‘Murican than not understanding the metric system?
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.
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!
They don’t understand imperial either though.
Nobody understands Imperial.
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.
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.
This must be from AI since it is so confidently wrong.
Genuine curiosity, other than the Queen Anne pound of wine (a joke I meant to contrast the imperial gallon’s definition) and saying “Queen Anne gallon of wine” instead of the “wine gallon” defined by Queen Anne in 1707 (now referred to as the “Queen Anne wine gallon”), which parts are incorrect?
They don’t understand insert basically anything either though.
Understanding things is COMMUNIST! We have the FREEDUMB to be completely illiterate!
Tbf does anybody? It’s a pretty stupid system.
Tonnes of engineering white papers showing how much imperial measure errors cost US industry.
And what size are those white papers, that’s right US letter standard
Don’t you mean kilograms of white papers? :P
Metric ton (1000 kg), not imperial/long ton (2240 lbs) or US/short ton (2000 lbs).
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!
It’s a better system for weather, but that’s about it. 0 is very cold, and 100 is very hot. No decimals needed.
… Please stop. Its not only not true it is also very silly. No its not good for weather, 78 is not a temp for a room.
look at arizona and boil in the heat of the average house
78F is not a typical room temperature.
Yes! And how would anyone know one way or the other?! Its american madness
You’re just jealous you’re not made of malt
Oh then we both have terrible news today…
uh oh. you tell me mine. im pretty stupid
THAT’S WHAT IT’S BASED ON?
One of my pet peeves is people thinking units of the past or people in the past were stupid, as opposed to just prioritizing different things.
The low end was based on the stabilizing temperature of a solution of water, ice and salt in a proportion lost to time. The benefit was that a water/ice/salt solution will stabilize it’s temperature naturally until the ice melts, making it useful for calibrating something like a thermometer: “ice” can be below the freezing point, but you can use the solution to set a steady baseline: the liquid will be 0°F.
The next steady baseline was body temperature, available to anyone measuring.
The scale was then set so that the freezing and boiling points of water were 180° apart. This was useful because it put them on opposite sides of a dial.
It was before we decided that ten was the ultimate number that couldn’t be beat, so people still played with circular symmetry, thirds and so one.This meant you could calibrate your thermometer by setting 0 to bring, 100 to your body, and then pushing steam through it and adjusting the offset so that the intervals were right and you correct body temperature variance. Some specific numbers have changed over the years as we adjust the scale to be based on metric.
Not stupid or arbitrary, just prioritizing things we don’t care about so much any more.
Celsius and the other are both based on absolute zero and a very specific change in energy levels in the medium, so it’s ultimately moot. Neither is technically based on what they originally were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SINobody really knows for sure. It’s lost to history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit
Oh sure, it just so happens to line up just so and comes from a time where malt (max saturation of salt in water) was common.
Fun thing though is that due to this its the one thing f is good at. No point salting a road at or below zero f. Yeap that’s it, wooooo
I’ve always explained °Fwith:
0° = Cold AF
100° = Hot AF
50° = Chilly, but manageable
Why are you all like this?
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
FYI: Kelvin doesn’t use the degree symbol. It’s not degrees Kelvin, just Kelvin.
I’ll leave as a testimony of my idiocy. May those seeking to demonstrate my ineptitude never lack evidence.
25º - water is refreshing
Get the fuck out of here with your miserable warm water, water is refreshing between 3° and 10°C.
You want to take a swim in water at that temperature? Be my guest. And drinking water that cold? I don’t my teeth enamel redone.
This is not the explanation you think it is, over there.
So I take it 50°F is the ideal temperature for humans, since it’s halfway between cold and hot?
It’s not even about the units - a fraction is unitless. 1/3 of something is more than 1/4 of the same something.
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It is a reference to an ad from the 80’s. A&W ran an advertisement for 1/3 lb patties for the same price as the McDonald quarter pounders. It failed, because people from the U.S. can’t do simple math.
That one is an even dumber mischaracterization. If you offer a bigger, but shittier burger than McDonald’s, and people don’t buy it, you can’t just conclude that they didn’t understand your burger was bigger.
Definitely don’t quit your day job to become a bot detector.
Not understanding anything at all
The wut?
The 151.1959447 gram burger has such a nice ring to it!
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.
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.
It’s pretty easy to convert mentally using the Beer Standard, where 12 fl oz = 355 mL.
For added confusion, pints are different sizes on either side of the pond too
Its illegal if its US customary floz. Needs to be British imperial floz along side metric unless its for certain products (milk, beer etc)
Would you rather have a liter of cola?
If I had to have cola I’d probably prefer 250ml or 330ml depending whether I was sitting at a table or climbing a hill.
I don’t want a large Farva
I’d rather have 2
This is exactly how propaganda works
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.
That’s weird. Does the audience know that Monster is US American and Red Bull is European?
Red Bull is Thai, but its marketed as british in America.
I didn’t know they were European, good times
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.
If it’s Austrian why do they use a bull instead of a kangaroo?
This is a great TIL. I had no idea red bull was Thai!
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.
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Crazy story! I’m so glad it worked out for each party.
what is your stake in this?
Red Bull straight up own the Red Bull Ring racing track in Austria, formerly Österreichring i.e. ‘Austrian circuit’.
I hate to ruin things for you, but the founder was a right wing piece of shit.
Better than the other career path for an Austrian right wing piece of shit at least.
Oh, well it figures I guess
Yeah, Austrian with the original development done in Vietnam
Thailand I believe.
The US could never tell the difference…
/S
I don’t know about the US, but in Canada Red Bull comes in 250ml, 355ml, and 500ml sizes.
In the US you can get 8.4oz (248ml), 12oz (355ml), 16oz (473ml), 20oz (591ml).
The “euro can” is 33cl/330ml
jesus so many different sizes in this thread! we got 473ml, 500ml, 250ml, 355ml, 330ml
to top it all off I checked my collection and I got a 368ml one too!
anyone have a pic of the resaleable 24fl oz ones?
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I’ll never understand how people drink this axe spray flavored toxic piss. They all taste like what I imagine chemical runoff tastes like.
You can pry the chemical piss from my dead hands, which should be soon because I drink chemical piss
White Monster at least tastes pleasantly citric to me. Everything else is kinda ass.
Don’t think beverage, think drug.
Don’t think beverage,
chug beverage
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Cocaine has some additional interactions with the body that one might consider fairly pivotal.
I have never once heard anyone describe the scent of cocaine.
It’s the white can. It’s sugar free but definitely does something for my ADHD
It has other kinds of sugars in it, like inositol. Not to mention the caffiene.
Yup. Taurine for pep. Same reason they put it in cheap dog food.
I don’t know about dogs but cats can’t synthesize their own taurine, kind of like humans can’t synthesize vitamin C, so their food has to be enriched in it.
Speak for yourself
I understand it. That piss is good! They come in sugar-free varieties and the caffeine content is less than that of a large mug of coffee. I will never see a breakfast consisting of orange juice and coffee among other things as being better for you.
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).
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
People come to like what they consume regularly. People’s insecure clinging to dietary preferences is so short sighted, pointless, and harmful.
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.
If that’s how you want to take it, I’m not going to correct you.
I worked at McDs during the 1/3 Angus burger and… yes. It happened, more times than I’d like. I tried convincing a couple people, then after that who cared. I was getting $8/hr. Fuck it it’s a worse deal and you get a smaller burger but you do you genius.
I used to work in a deli. Our scales gave weights in decimals, people always ordered in fractions. One day someone asked for an eighth of a pound. My coworker asks me “Is that .8?” I politely told her “it’s .125, so it needs to say about .13.” I guess part of it was panic, maybe if she had thought about it for a second she would have gotten it, but to think it’s more than a half pound was crazy. People ask for a half pound all the time.
How old were they? That is forth grade math.
my brain has to be under very specific conditions to do math. if any of those conditions change i draw a blank. adding a $5 tip sounds easy right? it’s just +5. Not when some teenager is watching you. it’s like peeing in public. here it comes… damnit someone walked in… oh near they can instant piss. probably doing calculus in their head too.
I can get that. Whenever I am sharing my screen or someone is watching me use a computer I turn into a boomer. I can’t type. I can’t find anything. I lose where the mouse is. Very annoying!
Me too!
I still miss the grand Angus. It was a great patty that was usually seasoned well and the sauce was bangin
The mushroom Swiss was genuinely a great burger. Of course hardly anyone ordered it.
MANLY EXTRA STRAWBERRY DREAMS!!
Amateurs:
My mom bought me one of these from Estonia, 900ml.
Reminds me of this one I found in Germany, 1l & 10%
Ah Faxe, classic Pennerbier!
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.
12 volts, 900ml. It would be a 2 days hangover for me.
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.”
I didn’t even see the "4.9%“. I thought it was one of those horrible beers. Plato scale. OK, I learnt something.
What is 12% and what is 4.9%?
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.
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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?
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”
US or British Fartbuckets ?
Yeah, I know the prefixes, I just hadn’t seen it used with liquid like that
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)
right, I’m fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I’m guessing each country (or perhaps it’s more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I’m sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it’s just not something I’ve seen someone doing.
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.
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!
Because deciliters is proper metric notation. We don’t count large distances in millimeters.
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.
Faxe
KondiDanechad 1lt cans mog that
Imma grip n’ sip.
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?
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.
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)
Don’t forget your piss-poor food standards.
We have food standards?!?
Very appropriate username!
Wait but they do sell a 16 oz one according to redbull
I don’t live in the US of A, tho
Well… yes. Yes, kinda. The “1/3 is smaller than 1/4” is a real thing being referenced, and how smart is that?
We got got to go back to elementry school yo hahahaha 🤣
