Article is misleading based on units. Food is in kCal, but the calories being calculated for temperature are just normal cals. Enjoy burning 6 calories from your 1200 calorie desert.
It may be intentional but the math is solid so it is worth pointing out. If you aren't aware that 1 food Calorie is actually 1000 calories then it is quite confusing.
While the temperature normalization process my actually take 6,216 calories "from fat", the "latent" calories in the ice cream isn't 1200 of those same unit calories. It's 1.2 million of them. So your net isn't a 5000 calorie reduction - it's a ~1.19 million gain.
I think the joke itself is the theory presented, not the fact that the author has no clue what so ever about energy in food being counted in thousands of calories. This is a very common misconception in the USA, where they insist on using the notion of Calories (note the capitalization), confusing them with calories, instead of going metric like the rest of the world by saying kcal to avoid being one thousand times off.
This is the point of the joke; except they screwed it up. They should have used Calorie whenever they meant kcal and not done so much math for the reader so that it would be true rather than false which it is because of the sure aforementioned reasons. good joke, bad delivery.
It's the units that are misleading. When I moved to the US, I was like "WTF is going on here?" for a few months until I found out that Americans just apparently couldn't be bothered to keep the prefix. ("Hell, we don't even use SI units anyway so who cares!"??)
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Article is misleading based on units. Food is in kCal, but the calories being calculated for temperature are just normal cals. Enjoy burning 6 calories from your 1200 calorie desert.
That's intentional. Couldn't help but notice that "/jokes/" appears in the URL.
It may be intentional but the math is solid so it is worth pointing out. If you aren't aware that 1 food Calorie is actually 1000 calories then it is quite confusing.
While the temperature normalization process my actually take 6,216 calories "from fat", the "latent" calories in the ice cream isn't 1200 of those same unit calories. It's 1.2 million of them. So your net isn't a 5000 calorie reduction - it's a ~1.19 million gain.
I think the joke itself is the theory presented, not the fact that the author has no clue what so ever about energy in food being counted in thousands of calories. This is a very common misconception in the USA, where they insist on using the notion of Calories (note the capitalization), confusing them with calories, instead of going metric like the rest of the world by saying kcal to avoid being one thousand times off.
This is the point of the joke; except they screwed it up. They should have used Calorie whenever they meant kcal and not done so much math for the reader so that it would be true rather than false which it is because of the sure aforementioned reasons. good joke, bad delivery.
It's the units that are misleading. When I moved to the US, I was like "WTF is going on here?" for a few months until I found out that Americans just apparently couldn't be bothered to keep the prefix. ("Hell, we don't even use SI units anyway so who cares!"??)
This is like the old joke about freshmen in physics who can't do dimensional analysis. Your car was going 32kg per hour?
32 kg an hour? I used to have an Alfa Romeo which rusted that fast.
Digg, Reddit, and now Hacker News.
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.
I'd love to know which 6 oz ice cream dessert has only 1200 gram calories in it(!) :-)
Right? And the calories on the label are actually kilogram calories!