The McDonald's Rant thread got me thinking....I was in some fast food place and wanted a small soda. They said "we don't have small, we have medium, large, and extra large." WTF - IS THIS SPINAL TAP? YOUR AMPS GO TO ELEVEN? How can you start with a medium? There are three sizes...the middle one must be medium! I don't care how huge your cups are (maybe that's their claim to fame.....you get bigger drinks, so big their small is like a Brand X medium) one of these three is the smallest of the group! Am I alone here, folks?
I always ask for small, no matter how they label it. Ive never had someone question it though, they just give me medium or whatever
I've actually gotten into arguments in Starbucks, trying to convince the cashier that "Tall" is not a valid drink size. Who do they think they're fooling? Do they think that if they CALL a drink size "tall" that my brain will think that itty-bitty cup with its miniscule amount of liquid will actually be worth the $4 I pay for it? Tall
I would actually consider "regular" to be a legitimate term. The word doesn't imply there are any choices "above" or "below" the size in question, which isn't the case with "medium".
Forgot about that! And then some break it down into large regular, and other subdivisions of measure. I get pissed off and point to an example saying "whatever this is called, please!"
It was the response I got that mainly made me go I asked for small and was effectively told that they don't sell small drinks, only regular. I had to say "ok I'll have a regular then". The way I look at it, if that's the smallest drink they have, it is actually small, no matter what term they want to use and making you use that term, instead of automatically giving you it is just annoying. I just don't see why they can't just use small, medium, large etc. (Correctly of course.)
Because Americans like to eat a lot. A LOT. And many, I guess, are stupid enough to fall for the Spinal Tap mentality.
Starbucks makes oodles of money by defying all common sense and logic. They aren't going to start changing that now.
In the future the "supersize" of today will be small. Extra large will be a 55 gallon drum (with free refill, dammit! What is this, Europe?) I want French Fires the size of a baseball bat! I want a burger patty so big escaped prisoners hide from the search helicopters underneath them!
Don't we all. However, one day someone else will found... I dunno, a waffle franchise, and people will buy burnt waffles with small batches of whipped cream. ... *starts making phone calls*
Oh, I would, if I liked Starbucks coffee There are only two things I order there: Frappacinos and zebra hot chocolates. Although, now that I no longer live up north , there isn't much point in buying them.
Starbucks would be a lot simpler if they used actual Italian or French instead of trying to mix the two.
