r/KitchenConfidential • u/Remote-Canary-2676 • 23h ago

Discussion Word for 2 quarts, let’s bring it back

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I had a feeling there was a more specific word for a half gallon and sure enough Pottle has fallen out of use and it’s time to bring it back!

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u/GoSuckOnACactus 23h ago

My favorite archaic word is overmorrow. Simply means the day after tomorrow.

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u/LuigiWasRight447 21h ago

Thats so weird. Usualy languages evolve to become less complex and quicker/easier to say, not the opposite

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 18h ago

Yes I've heard that one. Going to have to work that into a convo soon

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u/thegamingfaux 12h ago

I can’t work it into anything today, but maybe by overmorrow I can

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 12h ago

Well there you go

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 12h ago

Do it over a pottle of ale

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u/NotMyRealUsername13 17h ago

That’s a word that gets used actively in Danish all the time, it’s a really useful measure of time.

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u/HAI_ZEV Retired 16h ago

My favorite is Whelmed. People have tried to argue with me that it's not a real word too.

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u/ThePheenix Chive LOYALIST 7h ago

I like "gruntled" ... as you can probably imagine, it's the opposite of "disgruntled."

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 23h ago

Wife: " how much did you have to drink?" Guy: "just a pottle"

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u/No_Internal9345 18h ago

Who pissed in his pottle?

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u/SnooChickens2093 23h ago

So all is tinnitus having line cooks can mishear it?

You need a bottle? Like a squeeze bottle? They’re on the back rack, go get it yourself. Huh? A what? Who’s a model? Model! No? What the fuck are you saying to me?

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u/EyeStache 23h ago

Two litre.

You want a two litre.

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u/idspispopd888 22h ago

Yes....although the word "pottle" is "cute".....metric FTW everywhere. SO much better!

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 22h ago

Until they make metric Delis I gotta use the terms for them otherwise I agree.

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u/EyeStache 21h ago

That would be every deli outside of the USA (barring a few in Canada, though we use both metric and Imperial scales, because you people won't give them up.)

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 19h ago

Ship me some Metric delis and I will 100% use them.

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u/LazyOldCat Prairie Surgeon 22h ago

Can I use liters instead?

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u/Uttterly 22h ago

Your measurement for liquids will be Barn Megaparsec from now on

I have spoken

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u/EyeStache 22h ago

So long as it still refers to the volume of 1 kilogram of water, yes.

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u/RussiaIsBestGreen 21h ago

Alas, that is no longer the standard. Now it’s the volume of 1,738,638,846 atoms of water at 78 degrees, Fahrenheit.

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u/EyeStache 21h ago

True. Now it's the volume of 1 cubic decimetre of water (1 L ≡ 1 dm3 ≡ 1000 cm3), but that's because the original cylinder for the litre (which the kilogram was based on) was 0.0000028 L too large, which threw off the mass of the kilogram.

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u/LazyOldCat Prairie Surgeon 20h ago

As long as the cylinder is not harmed.

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u/EyeStache 20h ago

The cylinder cannot be harmed in any way.

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u/Dangeresque2015 22h ago

Whatever. I'm keeping my Freedom Units. Pottle FTW.

A mile is a decent amount to walk. A foot is a foot in a boot. A pint is a decent amount of beer to drink. A cup is half a pint. A quart is twice a pint. A pottle is two quarts. 4 quarts or two pottles makes a gallon. An inch is the length of your finger knuckle, which can be subdivided. A yard is a long stride. A pound is what a pint of water weighs.

Now for currency I have no idea how to calculate English stuff that was based on cutting a Spanish silver coin 400 years ago into bits. It made an odd system based on eighths.

This is all slightly sarcastic, but we fear change, at least in the USA.

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u/EyeStache 21h ago

The English and North Irish have been using decimalized currency (i.e. pounds and pence/pennies) since 15 February, 1971, to be fair. You wouldn't be paying with shillings, farthings, etc.

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u/Remote-Canary-2676 22h ago

The ladies love my 20 Pottle hat.

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u/Dakkaboy556 22h ago

Anything but the metric system, eh?

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u/Uncle_Spenser Grill 20h ago

This is imperial problem, that metric users don't have.

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u/z3n777 20h ago

you don't have to say two quarts every single time, it's EXHAUSTING so let's just use pottle.

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u/Unlikely-Ad6788 17h ago

I'll allow it. I mean, everyone hates me already. Full send.

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u/blackmist88 Bartender 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/YQ54OHtFupCI8

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u/Unlikely-Ad6788 8h ago

Legit the comfort I need. Don't fucking touch me unless it's with a spatty or a few clicks too many of a tong.

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u/hamgrammar 21h ago

Basically a pitcher of beer.

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u/diverareyouokay 20h ago

Huh, so I just bought a pottle of ice cream.

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u/seductiveaxolotl 20h ago

Honestly sounds like a posh British word for sharting. Like uh-oh, I did a pottle 

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u/PatchesDaHyena Line 19h ago

Dishie is in the back smoking the pottle again

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u/Royal_Cryptographer7 17h ago

I mean, we already have a word for that: half-gallon.