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Akima:

--- Quote from: lepetitfromage on 30 Dec 2013, 08:56 ---This is one of my biggest pet peeves. I can go into the shower a perfectly happy individual and exit it a raging lunatic if the shower curtain adheres itself to my leg too many times.
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According to my father, this problem is caused by incorrect mounting of the curtain-rod. His idea is that the rod should always be far enough "outside" the open perimeter of the bath/shower-tray that the water-proof curtain "breaks" on the inside edge of the shower, and the optional outer curtain hangs straight. I'm not so sure myself, but I prefer a shower cubicle with a door anyway.

Another thing that struck me as weird in the USA was "sticks" of butter. In Australia, butter usually comes in 250g blocks.

Method of Madness:
Is that an actual difference, or just semantics? What's the difference between a stick and a block? If memory serves, the stick is about half that size, but it wouldn't be wrong to call it a block.

LTK:
We have cylindrical sticks of butter in the supermarkets here, roughly the size of two fists; is that normally how a 'stick' of butter is shaped? I don't know anyone who buys them, we just have blocks of butter. Margarine (and other butter-esque products that aren't butter) is sold in plastic tubs, but since it turned out margarine is disastrous for your health, my family doesn't buy it any more. (Also, margarine is disgusting.) Blocks of butter are preferable to tubs anyway, because the paper-wrapped butter (which you unwrap and put in a butter dish) is way more resource-efficient than the plastic tubs.

Question: Do you refrigerate your butter?

Method of Madness:
On my side of the pond, sticks/blocks of butter are rectangular prisms.

LookingIn:

--- Quote from: Akima on 30 Dec 2013, 16:56 ---Another thing that struck me as weird in the USA was "sticks" of butter. In Australia, butter usually comes in 250g blocks.

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It's all about portioning and recipes. Eachbox is one pound which is also two cups and also is 16 ounces. Each of the sticks is a quarter of a cup as well as four ounces as well as eight tablespoons. Plus it is a lot easier to store single sticks than it is a whole block.

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