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.
the price of beef is insane
Good
“Uh a 151.197 grammer with cheese.”
Let’s just pretend that metric doesn’t have fractions.
Viertel Pfünder und Drittel Pfünder isjust as confusing.
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
Depends where you live, but it definitely is
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
It depends on the country.
Would you rather eat the 113-grammer burger? Or the 151-grammer burger?
Yes.
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.
I grew up in America and I can confirm, Americans are very dumb.
Do Americans need bigger burgers?
Yes
Fair question. ☝️
I’ve just had a radical idea to solve obesity in America
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.
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.
Quar ter poun der. Perfect size. Good marketing.
“A ThIRd PoUnDeR pLeASe”. Too much to chew. Bad marketing.
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.
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”.
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
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
Fractions still work the same way. The thing is Americans would think the 1/100 is bigger than 1/2, because 100>2. Doesn’t matter what unit you start with
Edit: I see what you’re saying with the names. But do you think the average american knows that a quarter pounder is less than a third pounder?
Had they adopted the metric system
Or at least had an education system capable of teaching basic maths
1/3 equals 1/4 because in both cases you have 1.
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.
metric system
Is this one of those intentionally-obviously-wrong comments designed to encourage people to comment on the meme?
Worked didn’t it?
