Warp wrote:

>   No, it's just that Americans, once again, cannot use the same units of
> measurement as Europeans. Thus what's "kilocalorie" here is "calorie"
> there, just for the sake of creating confusion.
> 
>   (I wonder what "kilocalorie" means in the US. Is it the same as a
> megacalorie here?)

They tried to switch us to metric. We kept our confusing customary 
measurements, because why on earth would I want to measure out 14.8ml of 
sugar...?

(I'm being facetious...)

My dad got all agitated when I was describing the size of something in 
mm instead of inches... The item was only about 1 or 2 mm in length. He 
couldn't handle mm. Well, err... less than 1/16 of an inch, I suppose..

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