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.
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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.