Pretty much the title. I’ve noticed lately that more independent and non-grocery roasters will have 12 ounce bags instead of one pound.
Is there a special reason for this beyond, I assume, bringing the price of more gourmet-ish coffee to a price point comfortable for the average consumer?
Also, shout out to King Bean in South Carolina, I love their Capers Blend.
Now we have usdefaultism here, too. Yay!
Hey, that’s not fair! OP could also be from Myanmar or Liberia.
But, for those not in Myanmar, Liberia, or USA: the reason this seems to be an issue is that a pound is apparently 16oz (not 12).
I was wondering what the fuzz is all about, thanks for saving me a Google!
I’m sorry if my post or question offended you. I’d be appreciative of any constructive feedback but I was simply asking a question about my experiences where I’m from in the measurements used here.
I did read the sidebar and look for any rules before posting, I was simply looking to a hobbyist community whose members likely know a lot about the topic.
Na, not offended, just amused. It would be nice though to provide some context on which region of the world your question applies to. Also, not everyone knows that a pound would be 16 ounces not 12.
I appreciate the feedback. I didn’t see location callouts common in other posts and kind of assumed based on measurements and the shoutout to a coffe shop in SC that it would be clear I was talking US but I shouldn’t assume. I’ll try to be more cognizant of that. Thank you!
Gee, maybe, just maybe, you could understand that people will default to using what they know and what is common to them, instead of thinking it’s some attack on the rest of the world. I’m an American and I certainly wouldn’t hold it against anyone from the rest of the world coming in and using metric because I realize other places use other measurements. I’m also quite capable of converting between other measurements. Hell, you used more energy to bitch about it than it would have taken to google it.
Sad that there’s simply no easy way to do the conversion math!
If you insist of using funny units derived from metric, you should to the math, why should I do it?
I’m curious. What size bag is standard for specialty coffee in your neck of the woods? I can think of several reasonable sizes (250 g, 330 g, and 500 g) but haven’t the foggiest which or if it might be some idiosyncratic number arising from some tradition or other.
And the instance is called lemmy.world, and lots of downvotes, this is just like the good olden days on Reddit tears of joyous nostalgia
You do realize how federation works, yeah? OP isn’t on lemmy.world. I’m reading and replying to this on kbin.social. This isn’t a monolithic site like reddit.
I do, hence I would expect folks to clarify a bit context and not just assume everyone one knows how USAians weight stuff.