On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:04:00 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> But can you actually do anything remotely "useful" with it?
>> 
>> Add up calories for a recipe.  :-)
> 
> Yes... Easier than it sounds.
> 
> - If you ask about "cheese", it defaults to wind weird variety that
> nobody has ever heard of. Gotta specify "cheddar" specifically.

For me it says "any type" - what do you get?

> - If you ask about "cheddar, toast", it tells you the distance fro
> Cheddar, UK to Toast, USA. (WHY do you have a place named Toast?!)

Same reason you have a place named after a sauce. (Worchestershire) ;-)

Or perhaps maybe the same reason we have a place called "Hell".  Really.

> - It seems Alpha doesn't know what "toast" is. But it knows about
> "bread", and one of the kinds of bread you can select is "wheat,
> toasted". Go figure.
> 
> So there we are. Apparently the default serving sizes of cheddar + toast
> gives me 33% of my RDA for saturated fat. I wonder what the hell that
> default serving size actually equates to, if anything...

:-)

Jim

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