Thread: Peculiar size
View Single Post
  #42 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Dan Abel Dan Abel is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 7,545
Default Serving Sizes (Was: Peculiar size)

In article >,
Goomba38 > wrote:

> Sheldon wrote:
>
> >> I don't drink coffee, and rarely go into Starbucks for a cup of tea. I
> >> sit there baffled by the size selection- large? grande? venti? HUH?

> >
> > Are you sure you didn't wnder into Victoria's Secret by mistake?

>
> LOL, and my VS catalog came in the mail just today! How timely, Sheldon.
> You should sign up for them. You'd enjoy it wayyyyy more than the Sears
> catalog of your youth.
>
> I find it a silly way to advertise sizes. If "Large" is the smallest
> size....well....it just looks affected. And do I get 2 tea bags for the
> price when the cup gets larger....?


Anybody remember Arctic Circle? They were a fast food place. Their
cheapest burger was the "Deluxe", for about twenty US cents. They got
real bent if you tried to order a "regular".

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA