As a Vermonter that’s been told that we have a lot of British influences I’m surprised beens are not common in our diet. Like the only times I’ve ever had the chance to eat beens is when their mashed up for the 2 times I’ve had tacos. Tbh I didn’t even know the Brits even had beens. Granted I’m presuming they are common over there due to the context of this meme.
They also tell you this nowadays. All my good teachers taught me the logic to solve problems and the ability to calculate small things fast because they knew they only had to optimize for me getting my phone out of my pocket.
Having lived in the UK and near the US southern border, they’re both great. Charro and frijoles are sublime, and Heinz baked beans are a superb side dish for potato or meat.
I still can’t enjoy sweet BBQ beans though, Bush’s just tastes like corn syrup with fiber blobs 🤮
And yet if a fancy restaurant does pea puree, people are all over it.
Mushy peas are made from a specific variety (marrowfat) that were selectively bred to be softer and have a nicer texture when pureed. People are just snobby about it, baked beans, and food like it because it’s working class food, without being fetishised ‘exotic’ working class food.
I imagine here in the US people would think pea puree was too much like baby food. Of course, if you’ve ever tried baby food, some of it is pretty darn good, so. ¯\(ツ)/¯
It literally doesn’t matter; you can’t make proper use of the calculator without knowing how to do the problems without it anyway, so this is just stupid bullshit lazy people throw at you to justify not putting effort into anything
Yeah. You’ll probably have access to a calculator these days, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth knowing some basic arithmetic. Playing around with arithmetic is a good way to gain an understanding of the fundamentals and have a better sense of what the operations mean and how they work, which helps even when you do have a calculator.
Maybe if you’ve only had Mexican food made in Britain? Baked beans are good but relatively one dimensional. In Mexico, beans, rice, and corn are the staples of most meals. They’re eating them at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. Children have mashed beans and rice as their first solid food.
Do you think British people eat baked beans with every meal? They do in Mexico. They obviously make them in better and more varied ways.
Naa it’s just bad explanation on why. Use a calculator but a brain will know if you put it in right. Kind of like that scene om starship troopers and the Knife.
Theres a few schools of thought when it comes to teaching math. Theres the camp that thinks that you should see 285 X 342 and figure out in your head its 97,470. Then theres the other group that goes, well we just need to teach them the concept and then the students apply it. Its people in the first camp that said you’d never have a calculator and just isn’t a realistic take on the world anymore. Very rarely do I have to sit down and remember what sin(30) is, but I can still do the trig work I’ve needed in my day job as a software developer.
This was the dumbest fucking take even before everyone had an always-on pocket computer with them at all times.
Outside of insane scenarios during which you would have everything you need at your immediate disposal, the option always existed to say “I need a calculator for this, brb.”
My father had a Casio watch with built-in computation capabilities in the 80s, and in the socialist state of East Germany at that, so you could definitely carry an arithmetic calculator with you anywhere!
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