https://royale-with-cheese.com/tags/metric/Recent content in Metric on Royale with CheeseHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://royale-with-cheese.com/posts/2025-04-12-metric-menus/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://royale-with-cheese.com/posts/2025-04-12-metric-menus/<p>I spent a long weekend in Amsterdam last month, mostly eating. This is not a confession, it&rsquo;s a research methodology.</p> <p>The thing that kept catching my eye was the menu board. Every burger place in the Netherlands seems to list the patty weight in grams, right there next to the price. 150g. 180g. 200g. It&rsquo;s matter-of-fact, like listing the ABV on a beer. Nobody thinks this is strange. You can compare two burgers across two menus and know which one is bigger without asking.</p>https://royale-with-cheese.com/posts/2025-02-05-royale-with-cheese/Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://royale-with-cheese.com/posts/2025-02-05-royale-with-cheese/<p>The Quarter Pounder doesn&rsquo;t translate. That&rsquo;s the short version. If you walk into a McDonald&rsquo;s in Lyon or Milan or Hamburg and ask for a Quarter Pounder, the person at the counter will give you a blank look, because the name refers to a unit of weight that almost nobody on the continent uses. A quarter of a pound is 113 grams, which is not a number anyone here has any reason to carry in their head.</p>