On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:
   1
tablespoon = 3 teaspoons 
 Except that, traditionally, there are two teaspoons in a
dessertspoon and
 two dessertspoons in a tablespoon.  It doesn't add up :-) 
 
 Would that have anything to do with the British culinary reputation?
  And those are U.S. measures, I think.  A cup is
half a pint; an imperial
 pint is 20 fluid ounces, not 16.  An imperial quart = 2 imperial pints =
 1.136523 litres (1136 ml); 4 U.S. cups = 946 ml. 
 Where does "A pint is a pound the world around" apply and/or originate? 
Doubtless in a pub in Britain!  Though, I fear the financial
relationship need a bit of updating :(
                                                 - don