FoxTrot by Bill Amend for July 21, 2004

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Jason: This cookie recipe calls for a half-teaspoon of baking soda. That's 25 cubic centimeters. This one-pound box is 2 x 3.5 x 4.625 inches, with about one inch of air at the top, which gives us a density of 0.0394 lbs/cubic inch, or 1.0906 g/cubic centimeter. So I need 2.7265 grams of baking soda. Mom, do you have a precision metric scale? Andy: Why don't you use this half-teaspoon measure instead? Jason: Where's the fun in that?