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By now it's already been a meme for a while. That's how these people learned that the ⅓ was bigger than the ¼.
Nah, if you look in any American kitchen, you'll find 1/3 cup and 1/4 cup measuring cups. They may not use them, but everyone has them, and it's painfully obvious that the 1/4 nests inside the 1/3, therefore the 1/3 is bigger. If you want to make mac 'n cheese, you use the 1/4 for the milk, which means you'll take it out of the 1/3 cup.
Americans are so bad at measurements that graduation marks don't work for them.
They need an individual container for each common measurement.
It's absurd.
Lol.
But yes, we do have graduation marks like this one, which would also clearly label the 1/4 cup and 1/3 cup parts. Whichever one you have, it's pretty intuitive that
1/3 > 1/4. I prefer the separate ones since they take up less space so they can go in a drawer instead of the cupboard (and I have 2-3 of each size), but to each their own.