Comment on Need those unit conversions

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yo. I was at an apple orchid and there was a bag of apples and it stated 1/2 peck bag. I didn’t know that this means. I still don’t. Volume? Weight? Whatever, do you want some apples or not?

  I asked the cashier, “Hey, so what exactly is a peck? Like what would the amount be?”

  He responded, " Well, like , if you took this bag and filled it up with apples then that would be 1/2 peck of apples."

  I didn’t want to explain to him why that didn’t help because I thought he might have been a bit too high to give me a valid answer. They made good apple cider donuts there, though. Yum.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume,[1] equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, are still often sold by the peck in the U.S. (although it is obsolete in the UK, found only in the old nursery rhyme “Peter Piper” and in the Bible – e.g., Matthew 5:15 in some older translations).

    so 8.81 liters for the rest of us. Now we just need to work out what a dry gallon is.

    The dry gallon, also known as the corn gallon or grain gallon, is a historic British dry measure of volume that was used to measure grain and other dry commodities and whose earliest recorded official definition, in 1303, was the volume of 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of wheat.[1] The US fluid gallon is about 14.1% smaller than the US dry gallon, while the Imperial fluid gallon is about 3.2% larger than the US dry gallon.

    No… No!

    The dry gallon’s implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an exact value of 9.252 × π cubic inches. Since the bushel was later redefined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, 268.8025 became the exact value for the dry gallon (268.8025 cubic inches is 4.40488377086 L).

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s why they talk so easily about unities like “goalposts per supercarrier”, US people are used to the confusion.

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    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      😂 well thanks for this. I feel somehow more informed and also more confused.

      I corrected the orchid/orchard thing so at least I got that going. 😊

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  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its just a ‘pack’ of apples, but the farmer was from new zealand

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m going coke

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• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably not weeded. Where is weed sold in single gram increments? At least in the US, the most common increment is 3.5 g which is also an eighth of an ounce.

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  • Lauchs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ohhhhhh, British Columbian and ex professional here on this one.

    Personal “bulk” sales are usually some in 1/8ths (3.5 grams) or more but in stores, the first page of their lil booklet is usually half or full gram pre rolled joints.

    Admittedly, for what it’s worth, first time I saw this meme in the wild was at a pot shop while buying a pre rolled gram.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are either young or have middle class dealers. In 2007, you definitely did buy weed by the gram, and hydroponic stuff could be $20-$30 per gram in some areas if supply was scarce. Of course, places with competition had better prices, but some rural areas really price gouged.

    Ghetto dealers often sold bags by the price alone. $10 was usually 2 grams to an 8th of either backyard weed or Mexican weed that often had little bits of twine and the occasional Hispanic hair in it from when it was put in a bale and taken across the border. Some dealers would also sell nickel bags ($5) that was .75 to 1 gram—basically just enough for one blunt.

    I have been glad that I’ve gotten to see the weed industry evolve heavily over my lifetime, and I know that I only see about 20 years of it. I’m sure the old heads from the 70’s would have real stories to tell. In the words of Bill Burr, “you used to buy your weed by the pillowcase.”

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    • sploosh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      $30 a gram?!? I was paying $35 for 1/8ths of top shelf stuff in the rural western US in 2007. Then again, the rural west is where all the good stuff was grown pre-legalization.

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      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The struggle was real, and there was a lot of variance in prices back then. $30 was in Denton, Texas where they knew they had a captive audience. It was cheaper in Dallas, and much cheaper in Austin.

        As they say in real estate, “location, location, location!”

        For what it’s worth, I didn’t pay that price very often—I’m no rube, lol.

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  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Perhaps outside of the US?

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Lol wherever high-school kids and budget minded people buy weed. That is where you buy in gr increments. Also any store I have ever been in has sold grams.

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• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Graham

  I’m Graham.

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  • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is this a Craig/Cregg thing? Do you pronounce Graham as Gram instead of Grayam?

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Haha, yup. That’s my savage yankee pronunciation at work.

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