YOU CAN AVOID the pointless drudgery of weighing everything you eat by comparing portions to common household objects.
Cheese: One ping-pong ball
Sauerkraut: Half a golf club
Water: A small fax machine
Spinach: The carburetor of a 1934 DeSoto Airflow
Butter: One lump of butter
Beef: 1/482 of a cow
Pasta (cooked): A stapler
Fruit Jelly: One of the fruit from which it is made, minus a gross of “falcon” steel pens
Dinner Roll: One dinner roll
Fish: One volume of the 1834 edition of Isaac Disraeli’s Curiosities of Literature
Potato: One hamburger
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Curiosities of Literature was published in 2 volumes in 1794 not 1834
Isaac Disraeli’s great work was enormously popular; there were two series and multiple editions, each with additions and revisions. A six-volume edition was published in London in 1834. There was also a five-volume edition published in Boston the same year, but this is (of course) illegitimate, since there was then no copyright agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom. It is therefore the London edition that should be used to measure portions of fish.
40 years between my edition of 1794 and yours of 1834! Weights of measure themselves being measured over 40 years. Sounds fishy to me.
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