Eli5 why are people saying muscle and fat weigh the same?

Question

So I keep seeing people say muscle and fat weigh the same because a lb of each is a lb. But surely a lb of anything is an lb? You need less muscle to reach an lb then you do fat, right?

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A pound of muscle is smaller than a pound of fat but they both weigh the same. I don’t know what point someone would be trying to make by saying they weigh the same because the point of the comparison is that they look different, not the same.