Used a couple of US recipes recently and most of the ingredients are in cups, or spoons, not by weight. This is a nightmare to convert. Do Americans not own scales or something? What’s the reason for measuring everything by volume?

  • MonkderDritte
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    So why are young women called chicks, even if they’re grown up?

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      Because slang doesn’t follow rules