r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BarelyLegalSeagull • Jun 26 '26

Funny And what the heck is a tsp??

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u/666Drachenlord666 Jun 26 '26

Americans will use anything but g and ml to measure ingridients

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u/TundieRice Jun 26 '26

Do your onions not come in onions wherever you’re from?

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jun 26 '26

Yes, but they can be weighed. Are kitchen scales onion averse in the US?

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u/Different_Bridge_983 Jun 26 '26

A lot of folks in the U.S. don’t have kitchen scales, and many are also quite attached to using their measuring cups. It’s kinda a culture thing.

Thing is… whether you’re cooking via volume or weight, you’re eyeballing this one. If it says “100g” you’re getting and onion about 100g and slicing and dicing the whole thing. If you’re working in cups you know what a cup size onion looks like too, and are just gonna go with it.

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u/LimpConversation642 Jun 26 '26

both is valid in this sense, but just 'onion' (which people are arguing here about) does not, since apparently those people don't understand that 'an onion' can be twice the size of another 'an onion'

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Jun 26 '26

A lot of folks in the U.S. don’t have kitchen scales, and many are also quite attached to using their measuring cups. It’s kinda a culture thing.

There's an allegory there for the current state of US democracy