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What’s troublesome with that is American cups are something like 237ml and a Canadian cup is 250ml, a quart a litre and a gallon 4 litres.
Makes using American recipes a bit finicky. So now I convert recipes to weight. Though I basically never use a scale or measuring cup when actually cooking.
In case anyone confuses him with Linus Torvalds:![](https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcelebnetworth.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F09%2FLinus-Sebastian-Wallpaper.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=f534334f9379b6ed2b26c7c8925cf18cdf16377717e92bef2cd7052c22e315c0&ipo=images)