this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025

258 points (90.1% liked)

Éire / Ireland

662 readers

1 users here now

An Irish community in the fediverse.

Weather & alerts: https://www.met.ie/

Health Service: https://www.hse.ie/

National Broadcasters: https://www.tg4.ie/en/ • https://www.rte.ie/

Radio Stations: https://irishradiolive.com/

Learn the language: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language • https://community-courses.memrise.com/community/courses/english/ • https://www.duolingo.com/learn

Pollen levels: https://www.pollen.ie/

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world

258

American recipes are annoying (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/ireland@lemmy.world

146 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Aeons ago Cracked did a skit called "Cooking with Babelfish." First of all remember when it was called Babelfish? Remember Alta Vista?

The one thing you could count on with one of those...feels wrong to call it 'old'...translation algorithm programs was it would get the quantities right. It might tell you to put in 5 kilograms of earth apples, because the French don't have a word for "potato" and Babelfish didn't know that, but the recipe did indeed call for 5 kilograms of them.