/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>13071803
>Animal Planet

>>11553912
>Bullets and gunpowder are measured in grains because people would use a scale to see how many grains the bullet or load of gunpowder equaled.
It's worth noting an anecdote of Benjamin Franklin, which may or may not be true. Just before the Revolutionary War, New England petitioned Pennsylvania for a grant to buy gunpowder. Of course, Pennsylvania being Quaker, they could not openly assent to this request, since gunpowder is an instrument of war and they're pacifists. Also of course, Quakers being hypocrites, they gave:
>an aid of 3000 Pounds, and appropriated it for the purchasing of bread, flour, wheat “and other grain.” Some of the council, desirous of giving the House still further embarrassment, advised the governor not to accept the provision, as not being the thing he had demanded; but he reply’d, “I shall take the money, for I understand very well their meaning — other grain is gunpowder.” Which he accordingly bought, and [Pennsylvania] never objected to it.
Gotta love them Quakers, as well as their modern intellectual descendants.