Re: Do you want a French "little" or a Dutch "little"? :))

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> > For Anglo-Saxon cooks, that is about 3 1/2 tbsp, or just under half
> > a stick.
>
> A stick?
Butter is sold by the pound, but the pound is divided into four individually
wrapped sticks.  Each stick is marked off in ounces (of weight), which
are near enough equal to tbsp.

> We buy things like butter and flour by mass but cook by volume.
As do we.

> To an Australian, 100 years is a long time. To an
> Englishman, 100 km is a long distance. (It implies the reversed views
> don't hold though, of course.) (I've also heard something similar with
> America instead of Australia but I don't know if it still holds (is 100
> year-old building really old?)
I would say so, yes.  New York City is notorious for demolishing its
buildings and building new ones -- until 1964 there were no legal
constraints at all -- and my building, which was built in 1872, is
quite old even for my fairly old neighborhood.  Most of its neighbors
were built under the Old Tenement Law (that is, 1889-1919).

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