{"id":141,"date":"2011-03-10T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T04:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-03-10T23:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T04:49:21","slug":"when-is-a-cup-not-a-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/2011\/03\/10\/when-is-a-cup-not-a-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a cup not a cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When did a cup become only three-quarters of a cup?<\/p>\n<p>When recipes say to use a cup of this or that, they mean a cup of this or that. That is, they mean 250ml, which is the definition of <em>one cup<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it that food stuffs like cup-of-soups, hot-chocolate mixes, powdered punches, and the like always say to add \u00becup of water to the mix for each cup? (No, they do <strong>not<\/strong> provide \u00bccup of mix per cup.)<\/p>\n<p>It seems that in ready-made food math, 3=4!<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/food\/\" rel=\"tag\">Food<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/math\/\" rel=\"tag\">Math<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When did a cup become only three-quarters of a cup? When recipes say to use a cup of this or that, they mean a cup of this or that. That is, they mean 250ml, which is the definition of one cup. So why is it that food stuffs like cup-of-soups, hot-chocolate mixes, powdered punches, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,38],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}