kcal vs. cal PLEASE HELP!

FredDoyle

This is why it should be measured in joules!
I am so sick of the Kcal Illuminati.

You're just a shill for the Big Metricists obviously.
...and if Canada is on the metric system, why is it still using Calories on nutrition labels? hmmmm...

Because we Canadians believe in diversity and are all accepting - Honestly the metric system was introduced when I was in grade school and it would probably confuse the majority of our population if everything was converted totally to the metric system. Half of my cookbooks are in imperial measures :indifferent:

Oh I know, I was being facetious. I was in high school for the switch so I grew up with both. I still mix them.
Worse was trade school. I had to write the electricians test in metric, but the industry, being next to the American elephant was still using imperial. 10' pieces of pipe, 4" couplings etc. But the electrical code was in metric. Straps 500 mm away etc.
I still think I'm 5'-7" tall and weigh 170 lbs, but I buy 250 g of sliced ham and 355 ml cans of beer.
My car gets 25 miles to the gallon but gas is $1.20 per litre and it's 250 km to the cottage. It's really cold, 20 C below zero, but soon we'll be complaining cause it's almost 100 F in August.

knra_grl

This is why it should be measured in joules!
I am so sick of the Kcal Illuminati.

You're just a shill for the Big Metricists obviously.
...and if Canada is on the metric system, why is it still using Calories on nutrition labels? hmmmm...

Because we Canadians believe in diversity and are all accepting - Honestly the metric system was introduced when I was in grade school and it would probably confuse the majority of our population if everything was converted totally to the metric system. Half of my cookbooks are in imperial measures :indifferent:

Oh I know, I was being facetious. I was in high school for the switch so I grew up with both. I still mix them.
Worse was trade school. I had to write the electricians test in metric, but the industry, being next to the American elephant was still using imperial. 10' pieces of pipe, 4" couplings etc. But the electrical code was in metric. Straps 500 mm away etc.
I still think I'm 5'-7" tall and weigh 170 lbs, but I buy 250 g of sliced ham and 355 ml cans of beer.
My car gets 25 miles to the gallon but gas is $1.20 per litre and it's 250 km to the cottage. It's really cold, 20 C below zero, but soon we'll be complaining cause it's almost 100 F in August.

:drinker: