My cup doth not run over ☕

=> Sean Conner discussed measuring ⅚ of a cup...

Outside the US, I'm scatching my head. What sort if cup? OK, I admit, I do know that there's a standard cup size in the US, but why? If you don't want to use metric, the fluid ounce is fine for volume. More weirdly again, do Americans use a measuring device that's exactly one cup? I have a measuring jug with a scale up the side, and just guesstimate intermediate numbers.

=> Sean also showed an equivalency chart for volume measures

So a cup is half a pint. That's huge! I'd call that a mug, and a big one too. [pause for experiment] I find that the biggest mug I possess is half a pint. But then a nagging doubt: US measures are different to ours, aren't they? Sean called the US measures "imperial" but on checking I find they're 20% smaller. It's a minefield, and I give up.

Oh, except for one thing. In the chart, I suspect that "tablespoon" is what I would call a dessert spoon. What I know as a table spoon is much bigger. Again, minefield.

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