From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 5/2/24 6:58 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:   
   > That's an oddity to UK cooks.  You rarely ever measure things in cups.   
   > Liquid are measured by volume - usually millilitres - and dry goods are   
   > measured by weight - grams.  (Well, technically mass, but let's not go   
   > there, especially with in the US a pound is a unit of force, whereas in   
   > the UK, it's a unit of mass, and the Imperial unit of force is the   
   > poundal, the force needed to accelerate one pound mass by one foot per   
   > second per second.)   
      
   I thought the Imperial unit of force was the star destroyer.   
      
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