Twelfth Post!

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Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/biblical/biblical-proportions

If you've ever wanted to measure out an egg-sized volume of vodka, now's your chance.

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

But an egg is the size of an egg and an olive is the size of an olive! It's right there in the name! :')

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

Egg-sized volume of vodka, casual method:

1. Get egg
2. Look at egg
3. Pour that much vodka

Egg-sized volume of vodka, deluxe method:

1. Get egg
2. Get water
3. Measure water
4. Displace water with egg
5. Measure water again
6. Get difference
7. Pour that much vodka

(Potentially you use a (sliced?) olive for measuring the water)

i'm not even in biblical times and i figured it out guys come on

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

Anyway, I laughed at it but I am an improv kind of cook and I roll my eyes so hard when people are like "how much salt is a pinch, exactly?" like there's suddenly going to be some specific measurement that maps to. I know baking is different, but who knows quantities of ingredients when cooking? You just put random amounts in and hope!

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

https://web.archive.org/web/20210316131232/https://www.biblicalnaturalhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TheEvolutionOfTtheOlive.pdf

Ah, but you see - the size of an olive (and thus, of the egg, as olives are frequently measured in fractions of eggs) is in fact the subject of much religious debate. Historically, different religious authorities have proclaimed that an olive is 1/3 of an egg, or 1/2 of an egg, or 1/6 of an egg. Given that eggs and olives do not, in fact, follow those ratios today, we can only assume that eggs and olives have simply shrunk over time, as everything is prone to do the further we get from God.

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

(Their olives are 27mL! Those are some big olives.)

Re: Random Internet Misc

[(Anonymous)]

I assume eggs have grown over time, with selective breeding. Olives might have shrunk for a similar reason; iirc small fruit generally taste better because they contain less water? I assume that principle extends to olives. Though if not enough people know it, olives might have grown, instead, because big ones would look impressive on a market stall.

But I also picture people, thousands of years back, hearing the authorities and just being like "wtf an olive isn't half the size of an egg" and just going by eye for their recipes anyway.