What does this mean in a recipe?

[rfd...@optonline.net]

I just found a recipe for Italian sausage and tortellini soup which looks pretty
good. I want to try it but the first three ingredients are:

1# Hot Italian Sausage w/casing removed
1# Mild Italian Sausage w/casing removed
1# Cheese Tortellini

What is 1#? My guess is 1 pound but I've never seen it written like that before
and I don't want to screw things up. Thanks.

[Chemo]

pound

[John Kuthe]

Yep, # = lb or pound. 453.6g or a little less than 1/2 a Kg.

John Kuthe...

[Goomba]

On 2/16/13 4:14 PM, rfd...@optonline.net wrote:

> What is 1#? My guess is 1 pound but I've never seen it written like that before
> and I don't want to screw things up. Thanks.
>

That symbol is called the pound sign. You know, like on the
phone-"please enter your account number followed by the pound sign..."

[sf]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:14:42 -0500, rfd...@optonline.net wrote:

probably "pound".

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

[djs...@aol.com]

In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the word,
"number" if it preceded a number. I still call it by one of those
names. Nowadays, all the lemmings on Twitter call it a hashtag.
Why? I don't know. Why not just call it the pound sign?

[Dave Smith]

Pound ?

[James Silverton]

The trouble is that the British and, I believe, Egyptians too, call a
crossed-L a pound sign,
like this: £ (originally short for Libra). The Italians, pre-Euro, used
it for Lire.


--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

[jmcquown]

Yes, that is the symbol for pound.

Jill

[jmcquown]

On 2/16/2013 5:30 PM, djs...@aol.com wrote:

Because it's Twitter?

Jill

[graham]

"jmcquown" <j_mc...@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:aoaiv7...@mid.individual.net...

And only twits are obsessed with Twitter?

[gtr]

On 2/16/2013 5:30 PM, djs...@aol.com wrote:

> In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the word,
> "number" if it preceded a number. I still call it by one of those
> names. Nowadays, all the lemmings on Twitter call it a hashtag.
> Why? I don't know. Why not just call it the pound sign?

I believe it morphed thisaway: Hash, the pound sign, is used in various
programming was a separator. Any text following a # was disregarded
until the end of line, and notes, docu, etc was placed there:

# Initial variable definitions

$var1 = "Enter name here"
$var2 = "Enter " # We may not need anything but name.
$var3 = "code from coupon " # Don't forget to get list of coupon codes

And so forth.

One kind of hash was a #, but another kind was a &, a separator you
will see commonly used in html links
http://www.stinky.com/contest&userid=44906&month=09

So these elements, as a group associated with one thing or other to
follow, is a hash tag or hashtag. At one point in IRC this particular
hashtag ("#") was used to indicate group addresses. I think that was
where it was snatched for twitter usage. Which I don't.

There's more if you want to snoop it out.

[sf]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:15:00 -0500, James Silverton
<not.jim....@verizon.net> wrote:

> The trouble is that the British and, I believe, Egyptians too, call a
> crossed-L a pound sign,

But isn't that the sign for "pound" the money? It doesn't mean weight
or number.

[sf]

I don't understand why those posts are called tweets instead of twits.
Twits fits so much better. I subscribed via computer and have quite a
few food bloggers on my "twitter feed", but nothing and I mean NOTHING
is interesting. I can see how people in third world countries
conducting a revolution might be able to use it for concise
directions, but what other good does it have? I'm obviously the wrong
generation for it with my obsession for using words when a grunt will
do.

[sf]

Just an FYI - it was called a hash*mark* long before Twitter. They
took an old term and gave it a "tweak".

[rfd...@optonline.net]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:14:42 -0500, rfd...@optonline.net wrote:

Thanks all.

[Ophelia]

"James Silverton" <not.jim....@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:kfp3rk$nfi$1...@dont-email.me...

Yes that is the symbol for the Pound (money) We used lb for weight. I
can't help with the 'hashtag' thingy, sorry.
--
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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

[Brooklyn1]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:26:47 -0800, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:

>On 2/16/2013 5:30 PM, djs...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the word,
>> "number" if it preceded a number.

Exactly... as #1 = Number one, or No. 1, or Nº.1

[Janet Wilder]

It's been also used as a symbol for pound, the weight, for years. I
can't believe that so many people don't know this.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

[Nancy2]

Did you think it meant hash tag? LOL.

It means pound.

N.

[Nancy2]

On Feb 16, 9:38 pm, sf <s...@geemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:15:00 -0500, James Silverton
>

> <not.jim.silver...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > The trouble is that the British and, I believe, Egyptians too, call a
> > crossed-L a pound sign,
>
> But isn't that the sign for "pound" the money?  It doesn't mean weight
> or number.
>
> --
> Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

Exactly, the crossed L means pound sterling, not any other kind of
pound.

N.

[Bob Terwilliger]

sf wrote about the "#" symbol:

> Just an FYI - it was called a hash*mark* long before Twitter. They took
> an old term and gave it a "tweak".

The terms "pound sign" and "hash mark" denote ways the symbol is *used*. The
actual name of the symbol is octothorpe.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octothorpe

Bob

[sf]

I'm saying real live people called it a hash mark before it was
Twitterized into hash tag.

[S Viemeister]

When I sign in to my Royal Bank of Scotland account, the automated voice
tells me to press 'square' (#) after entering the numbers she asks for.
So # can be pound, number, square - or octothorpe.

[Bob Terwilliger]

sf wrote:

> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octothorpe
>
> I'm saying real live people called it a hash mark before it was
> Twitterized into hash tag.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

Bob

[Brooklyn1]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:10:54 -0600, Janet Wilder
<kellie...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 2/17/2013 9:36 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:26:47 -0800, gtr <x...@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/16/2013 5:30 PM, djs...@aol.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the word,
>>>> "number" if it preceded a number.
>>
>> Exactly... as #1 = Number one, or No. 1, or Nº.1
>
>It's been also used as a symbol for pound, the weight, for years. I
>can't believe that so many people don't know this.

I agreed with both but gave an example of the sign used numerically,
everyone already knew how it was used as a pound sign... rarely used
for either anymore.

[z z]

LOL back when automated answering services first started we had many
older Americans call us back asking what the heck is the pound key. I
suggested to the local news station that they should do a public service
announcement about the pound key :-)

[Michel Boucher]

"djs...@aol.com" <djs...@aol.com> wrote in
news:2a1a27df-d53f-4298...@r13g2000yqg.googlegroup
s.com:

> In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the
> word, "number" if it preceded a number. I still call it by
> one of those names. Nowadays, all the lemmings on Twitter
> call it a hashtag. Why? I don't know. Why not just call it
> the pound sign?

Because a hashtag is not the same as a pound sign. Around here it
is called a number sign.

--
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected
from happening.

-- Barbara Tober

[Michel Boucher]

"djs...@aol.com" <djs...@aol.com> wrote in news:2a1a27df-d53f-

4298-b2f7-e...@r13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com:

> Nowadays, all the lemmings on Twitter call it a hashtag.

I suggest you read this before acting all crochety and curmudgeonly
about simple solutions you cannot yet comprehend.

http://www.techforluddites.com/2009/02/the-twitter-hash-tag-what-
is-it-and-how-do-you-use-it.html

http://tinyurl.com/bw85z2

Just so we're clear, the long URL is there for your information and
the tinyurl is there so can click on it and get to the site without
getting a 404 error (file not found).

What follows below is a sig file, inserted into the edited reply
and which contains a saying I particularly find interesting.
Others I have used included jokes about how stupid Tea Partiers
are, not liking God's fan club and intelligence being the only
crime you can commit. I establish a link in my Usenet client to a
simple text file and it includes it automatically. Can you say
automatically?

[Janet Wilder]

I've always called it a "pound sign" never heard the term "hash mark"
until Twitter.

[sf]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 21:27:05 -0600, Janet Wilder
<kellie...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I've always called it a "pound sign" never heard the term "hash mark"
> until Twitter.

Twitter calls it a hash "tag", but my Dad and grandfather always
called it a hash mark, my whole family called it a hash mark, in fact
everyone I've ever known has called it a hash mark when they were
talking about the symbol in general terms. When they were being
specific, they used the proper term related to the game, the
telephone, weight etc.

[notbob]

On 2013-02-18, Janet Wilder <kellie...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've always called it a "pound sign" never heard the term "hash mark"
> until Twitter.

An even older, if not so glorious, use of the term is the
interchangeable "hash mark" and "skid mark". Usually found in
non-fresh underwear. ;)

nb

[JBurns]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:30:18 -0800 (PST), "djs...@aol.com"

<djs...@aol.com> wrote:

>On Feb 16, 4:14 pm, rfd...@optonline.net wrote:
>> I just found a recipe for Italian sausage and tortellini soup which looks pretty
>> good. I want to try it but the first three ingredients are:
>>
>> 1# Hot Italian Sausage w/casing removed
>> 1# Mild Italian Sausage w/casing removed
>> 1# Cheese Tortellini
>>
>> What is 1#? My guess is 1 pound but I've never seen it written like that before
>> and I don't want to screw things up. Thanks.
>

>In the old days, # meant pound if it followed a number and the word,
>"number" if it preceded a number. I still call it by one of those
>names. Nowadays, all the lemmings on Twitter call it a hashtag.
>Why? I don't know. Why not just call it the pound sign?

It is called a hash symbol in a lot of parts of the world, rather than
the pound sign, although I have read that *hash* is incorrect, it
should be hatch.

Wiki lists it as the Number Symbol an goes on to refer to pound and
hash.

Google Hatch Symbol

JB

[JBurns]

Automated telephone services in Australia all say "press the hash
key", I have also used it to denote *number*. I have never heard it
called the pound sign.

I think the usage of this depends on where you come from.

JB

[tgu...@bostonk12.org]

[Ed Pawlowski]

# is the pound sign so yes, 1 pound

[Thomas]

#metoo

Pound me too. Idiots.

[Bruce]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:12:39 -0800 (PST), Thomas <cano...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>#metoo
>
>Pound me too. Idiots.

Love Potion #9.

[Dave Smith]

Does your smart phone require you to punch in your PIN and then pound
sign to access messages? #

[Elisandra San Miguel]

I would like to know what this symbol ~ means for baking?

[Bruce]

Probably an approximate measurement.

[bruce bowser]

You might be near water?

[Thomas]

Back in the day...
You can go to preparedness, survivalist web sites to buy these. Lehmans.com still sells.
WHAT DOES #10 CAN MEAN?

When food cans were invented in the 1890s, there were no standards. Manufacturers produced cans to fit the products they sold. Within about ten years, however, food manufacturers realized that certain standard sizes were evolving and that there could be economic benefits to setting and following standards. The standard can sizes that evolved came to be known by numbers from one to 10. The term "#10" does not mean that the contents will weigh 10 pounds, the #10 refers to the type of can that is used. The actual weight and volume of the contents will vary depending on the product. On average, the #10 can will hold 109 oz. To help you visualize, your average soup can is #2 can. To get the same amount of food as one #10 can, you would have to have a total of 5.32 soup cans to have the same amount of volume as the #10 can.

I had the best answer back in 2020.

[dsi1]

It means "approximately" in mathematics. It could mean the same thing in cooking although I've never seen that used in baking. I always cook using ~ measurements. That's what makes it fun.

[GM]

The Prophet Jeremiah spent his entire life foretelling the future yet not one Judean changed his or her ways...

--
GM

[Michael Trew]

Approximate value

> You might be near water?

LOLOL... post of the day!

[bruce bowser]

Hey! Put two or three of 'em up there together, you do get waves, right?

[Michael Trew]

~~~