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minus-square_bcron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·27 days agoIt’d be cool if they used kilograms but it’s ~.5kg, or a 1 cornish game hen for the Americans
minus-squarehalcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-227 days agoAmerican here, we don’t use those dumb measurements over here. Cornish game hen, what a stupid name for a unit of measurement, probably named after a place in England. That’s roughly the equivalent of 500 Skittles, a standard unit of measurement.
It’d be cool if they used kilograms but it’s ~.5kg, or a 1 cornish game hen for the Americans
American here, we don’t use those dumb measurements over here. Cornish game hen, what a stupid name for a unit of measurement, probably named after a place in England.
That’s roughly the equivalent of 500 Skittles, a standard unit of measurement.