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		Symbiote on July 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes I lived in Britain for over 25 years, and never saw British cups used as a measure. A recipe given in ounces and pints might be using Imperial or US ounces and pints, but a recipe in cups is American. (It can matter when something is in another unit, like "4 eggs".)

OJFord on July 4, 2020 [–]

They're extraordinarily rare in recipes for sure, basically only in old ones.

But if you buy a 'cups' measure it ~never says which of the four it is, and it may well be there old Imperial size. (I have one. Was a popular one on Amazon, nothing obscure.)

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