One ounce of adult breakfast cereal (like Special K or Corn Flakes) contains more sugar than an ounce of Coca Cola, and more salt than an ounce of potato chips. A fact clearly stated on the label of each product.
Dry ounces and fluid ounces aren’t the same. And if they were, I don’t eat 1.33 pounds of cereal in one sitting.
Yes they are. A fluid ounce is an amount equivalent to one ounce (by weight) of water. Different fluids have slightly different specific gravity, and a fluid ounce by volume is easier to measure accurately in trade, with the difference in weight being trivial.
You may have given a reason why my statement may not have real-world relevance, but you have not shown my statement to be untrue. The concentration, by weight, of sugar and salt in the products I mentioned are what I said they are.
But the amounts listed on the labels are based on a serving size, which, while I don’t have packages of any of those items in front of me, I’m pretty sure is not equal among all 3. So it’s not exactly “clearly stated” on the label. You have to do calculations to compare by ounce.
Also, just from the nutrition labels, we don’t know that the cereal contains more salt (i.e., sodium chloride,) only that it contains more sodium. It probably contains sodium in a bunch of other compounds which don’t taste salty.
So 1/16 pound of rice krispies, grape nuts, water, and lead all fit in 1/8 cup?
1/16 pint (one fluid ounce) of all comestible fluids will come pretty close to weighing one ounce avoirdupois. That is how and why the “fluid ounce” was created for trade and commerce.
One interesting exception is molasses, of which one fluid ounce weighs a great deal more than one ounce avoirdupois, more like 1.5 ounces, I think. Some brands of molasses mark them by fluid ounce, and some by ounce avoirdupois, which makes them really hard to price-shop.
NO, I don’t want to talk about it.
YES, I’m sure.
I’m a GUY.
Yeah, I was once riding on an inter-city bus and staring at the moon (which was readily visible). My neighbor asked what I was looking at. I explained and she was astonished. A middle aged lady who had never noticed the moon in the daytime.
Even less well known is that it you know where to look and its phase is right, you can see venus in the daytime. One day, I was walking to my office, starting a bit before sunrise and followed venus through sunrise and for nearly an hour after. When I left my office I looked for it, but could not find it.
And finally: Evolution is real!
Inspired by another thread: you do not need to change your oil every 3000 miles. This is an outdated concept which hasn’t been true in decades. My 1999 car recommends every 5000 miles, and it was not a new concept then. Some manufacturers may recommend 7500 or even 10,000 mile changes. And quite frankly they will err on the side of caution, so you can probably let it go longer to no harm. Yet I still have to convince people, that no, you don’t need to rush to the shop. I’ve been somewhat successful, but let so in just convincing them to give me the money that they’d save.