I grew up in America and I can confirm, Americans are very dumb.
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.”
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.
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.
No it’s 500 mL
SI says either 0.5 Liter or better 0.0005 m^3
I want a 0.5 liter burger, please.
? No it isn’t
Depends where you live, but it definitely is
Yes it is, living in Brazil all my life and one seen it and wrote it myself that way
Oh 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.
There is also a metric pound but honestly people don’t use it.
Do Americans need bigger burgers?
Yes
Fair question. ☝️
I’ve just had a radical idea to solve obesity in America
No, Americans could have had bigger burgers if they weren’t stupid.
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.
Absolutely. Throw on some cheddar or muenster and drizzle some hot bbq, we’re in business.
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.
1/3 equals 1/4 because in both cases you have 1.
[VINCENT]
And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?
[JULES]
They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?
[VINCENT]
No, they don’t have fractions, they wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter is.
[JULES]
Then what do they call it?
[VINCENT]
They call it Royale with Cheese.
No, they don’t have fractions, they wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter is.
“No they have the metric system, they don’t know what the fuck a quarter pounder is”
Fractions aren’t imperial, fractions are fractions, everyone has them. It’s the ‘pound’ that’s imperial and normal people don’t use.
How could OP have transcribed the movie clip so wrong, but still made an absurdist joke? Thanks for clearing it up.
I’ve been a victim of Poe’s Law, but there has to be some threshold where it’s not ambiguous.
#woosh
Recently it occurred to me that in the US we have 25¢ coins but $20 bills. It never bothered me before but it’s really odd. Especially when many other countries have 20"¢" coins.
20¢ coins would be better for transitioning away from smaller denominations of coins. If you got rid of everything smaller you could drop a decimal place.
We can already just round to the nearest quarter. Basically no machines take anything less than quarters.
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”.
Had they adopted the metric system
Or at least had an education system capable of teaching basic maths
You’re from the UK I presume then? 🙂
metric system
Is this one of those intentionally-obviously-wrong comments designed to encourage people to comment on the meme?
Worked didn’t it?
