Had they adopted the metric system
Or at least had an education system capable of teaching basic maths
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Americans if they adopted the metric system: ".25kg > .5kg"
Classic.
".25kg > .5kg"
Which one of those is a third?
Deoends on whether you're asking for a third of 0.75kg or a third of 1.5 kg
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Sounds to me like they missed the opportunity to sell a 1/5 burger for more instead.
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TIL fractions don't exist in the metric system.
We wouldn't normally say "I'd like a 18/100 kilogram burger"...
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?
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Pretty sure fractions are pure math & not metric or imperial.
Americans do be dumb AF, though.
Yes and no. Imperial measurements that are not integers are displayed in fractions. Hence quarterpounders and thirpounders. In metrics, fractions are rarely used. Because the scales are more granular and because non-integers are usually displayed in decimals.
People thinking a third-pound-burger being smaller than a quarterpounder could not have happened with metrics, because, well, look at the title.
I’m from a country where we use metric and can’t think of anything that would normally be displayed as a fraction. Sure we know what half and third are, but they’re not used officially for anything
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Are Europeans afraid of fractions or something? It's way quicker to mentally add 9/16 and 3/8 compared to 0.5625 and 0.3750...
Like I get that metric is better but "metric is when no fractions" make 0/1 sense.
Edit - tfw you get ratiod by "9+6 is hard" in a thread about people not understanding basic arithmetic
I’m a lifelong American and neither of these are easy, but the decimals are much more like real numbers to me.
I encounter decimal points in my day to day interactions with numbers. Not so with fractions.
I will start learning fractions when restaurants put them in their prices.
“That will be $4 and 3/4,” said no one ever, thank gob.
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Let's just pretend that metric doesn't have fractions.
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
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No, Americans could have had bigger burgers if they weren't stupid.
It's not like Americans need bigger food.
metric system
Is this one of those intentionally-obviously-wrong comments designed to encourage people to comment on the meme?
Worked didn't it?
Why does this meme have a veggie burger?
Is it a vegan meme?
How do you spot a meat eater? They'll tell you.
Just pointing out the odd choice of pictures.
It’s obviously not a A&W burger or from McDonald’s.
In fact I don’t think either chain had a vegetarian option in the ‘80’s but I could be wrong.
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The meme is literally about two fast food restaurants and the quantity of ground beef they sell. It’s not like he was stretching to point out that’s a plant based burger…
I just used the opportunity to flip some of what vegans come across daily.
No one went to A&W for burgers back then, footlong chili dog and root beer.
This, exactly.
Anyone repeating this 1/4 vs 1/3 bullshit never had one of their 1/3lb burgers. They were fucking terrible. Sysco prison-grade burger patties, drowned in store-brand ketchup with a thin slice of "American"-flavored yellow #5.
Absolute worst burger I've ever had.
Growing up, A&W was for chili dogs and a big glass mug of rootbeer. Never order anything else; its always a fat sack of disappointment.
That must have been a US thing. A&W in Canada has had excellent Teen burgers for decades.
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But that can't be right! I have it on good authority that A&W stands for Amburgers and Woot beer!
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"
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[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.
#woosh
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Americans are every bit as capable of assuming a 1/8 kg burger is bigger than a 1/6 kg burger.
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.
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I will make a 1/100 pound burger, instant money machine
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.
I've just had a radical idea to solve obesity in America
1/3 equals 1/4 because in both cases you have 1.
It was more because there weren’t many A&Ws around. Closest to me was over an hour away.
This is so dumb
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