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Re:Culture shock by sokoloff on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:23PM (#29075688)
What they call “powdered”, we’d actually call “granulated” which looks like salt. Powdered here (in the US) is a much finer confectioner’s sugar that is more of a pulverized dust than a granule.
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Re:Culture shock by Markoff on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:22AM (#29080797)
pretty sure it's same everywhere in world, you have it either powdered (flour like), granulated (salt like, but slightly bigger) or in cubes

oh well and then there is China from what I remember, where they sell something like quite big rocks even in regular supermarkets, unseen in Europe

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Re:Culture shock by Firadeoclus on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:35AM (#29081884)
Depends on where in Europe. You can certainly find rock sugar/lump sugar in supermarkets in, say, Germany (where it's called "Kandiszucker"), whereas in the UK you're likely to have more success in small ethnic shops.
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Re:Culture shock by Markoff on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @05:07AM (#29092432)
yeah, but those are rocks with basically same size as cubes/dices, while in China you can find proper rocks like 10+ cm or bigger
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