Sizes

Two aspects to this. Firstly, the above example. We don't all speak Italian - and when I hear a drink being called "grande", then that implies "large". Also the "tall" one: imples "large". So it's extremely misleading that both of these do not in fact mean the largest size.

Secondly - why do food outlets insist on selling things as "Regular", "Large" and "Extra large"? What's wrong with "Small", "Medium" and "Large", eh? Is it somehow a sin to label something as small?

Bloody nonsense marketing. Just call things what they are!
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:44, 13 replies)

Also, who the fuck drinks 1 pint of coffee at a time?
(Venti is Italian for twenty; the cup holds twenty fluid ounces, or one pint).

I'd be the first to admit I like coffee, but I like to drink it, not swim in it.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:50, closed)

doesn't Venti
mean 20, as in 20floz
(Lord Chode, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:50, closed)

Yeah
But still - wtf?

Since when have we measured non-alcoholic drinks by their liquid volume? Knowing that it means "20" still leaves you clueless as to what size it is in relation to the others. All other things being equal, I would naturally put "grande" as the biggest, followed by "tall". Then the other one which does not give a relative measure of size would be the "regular", or "small" one.

The first time I was in Starbucks, I had to work it out by looking at the accompanying prices displayed next to the sizes. One should not need to do this: the names should speak for themselves.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 20:16, closed)

True
imagine the lunacy of selling things like milk, orange juice and coke in pints or litres...it'll never happen
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 21:08, closed)

OK OK
So I was not thinking of those :)

But you know what I mean: when you buy a drink in a restaurant or coffee shop - you don't buy per liquid volume. You just buy per cup/glass.

I was not talking about buying pints of milk etc in a supermarket. You know...
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 21:25, closed)

Venti
is Italian for 20. I have no ide
a what this has to do with the size of a coffee cup though.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 9 Apr 2010, 20:11, closed)

see above
^
(Lord Chode, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 20:12, closed)

I think you'll find that "venti" is Italian for "Someone's told them that already."

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 21:13, closed)

Hah!
Over here in Dublin the service asks you 'small, medium or large?' and then proceeds to use the tall, grande or venti terminology to inform the barista as to your order. The natives must've found it too difficult to cotton on!
(Clerk T Hazarde are all the wine, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 21:30, closed)

Ahem!
If anyone fancies are project. You could always complain to these guys on the basis that the sizes are misleading:

www.asa.org.uk/Complaints-and-ASA-action/How-to-complain.aspx
(Nitrous Nitrous, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 21:58, closed)

have you seen the film
Role Models?
(TexasPete enjoyed being sexually molested by your Father on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 22:44, closed)

Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages

( Fat Fred too weird to live, too rare to die, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 12:38, closed)

I fight the system
and ask them for a small or medium coffee. So they have to translate it. So there.
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Mon 12 Apr 2010, 2:55, closed)