On a related note, if I ask for a small coke/coffee/whatever, and I’m told they do not carry small, I’ll invariable ask for “the smallest one. You know, SMALL.” This seems to get the point across.
Incidently, I’ve typed “small” so many times that it no longer looks right…
SPOOFE, you’d be amazed at how many people chose McD’s for their prom dinners. It was sick. There’s about 6 different high schools near the one I used to work at, and it never failed, each school’s prom brought in at least 5 limos full of teenagers. I haven’t figured out who they were trying to impress-their dates, or the workers.
The medium as a small thing annoys me. At the Sbarros I work at now, we just redid all the cup sizes, and it sucks. What used to be a small is now considered medium, and what used to be medium is now large. We no longer offer a small size. So when someone orders a medium, and we give them the 16 oz cup, they look at me like we’re scamming them. I think we’re the oppisate of every other fast food place in the world-our cups are too small
I worked at Ben and Jerry’s for a while. We had regular, medium and large… no small.
But of course, a small, um, regular ice cream cost more than half the cost of a whole pint, which we also sold. That was the real crazy bit. A couple comes in and they each order a small ice cream when they could have gotten a pint (probably 4 times the ice cream) for less money. Go figure.
Every now and then you spy a small gem floating past you that nobody else sees.
Yes McD’s is a terrible soul crushing place, but it has grease, sugar and salt. All the things a growing bodies needs.
That is if girth is a plus.
On second thought please let girth be a plus.
However, I’m more interested in afforementioned sci-fi brothel.
WTF?
I’m picturing Captain Kirk look alikes getting freaky and trying to hold down my breakfast.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Gah the image
Must share
Picture this:
A SciFi convention lets out, hords of horny, unbathed treckers in pathetic homemade comstume leave and want some entertainment. So they go to the only that will “Treat them Right”…
ANYONE ELSE SEE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS?
Yes. Yes we are.
Fear us.
cupholders? I’m so poor my car doesn’t even have them! i gotta put the drink between my legs! Then it sweats, and i look like i peed my pants! and if i gotta swerve to advoid the moron St. Louis drivers, the drink my fly outta my legs and onto the walls and me, or i squeeze it tight, and the lid pops off, and the soda goes EVERYWHERE, so i got an empty cup between my legs, and the inside of the car is soaked with Pepsi, and i cant see out the windshield, and i got off the side of the road. At least thats what used to happen, i got surpreme leg control now, and the sodo doesn’t fly like it did in ages past.
Kabbes,
As an aside, what the hell is a Merkin restaurant? Hopefully it has nothing to do with this:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_232.html
Is this an analogy I am not familiar with, or what?
Bleeh.
Cup holders… my car didn’t come with one. You’d think that when a car sells for 25G they could at least include a cup holder, but no.
So I put one in myself. Pure genius on my part.
This bad boy will hold my monster coffee mug and since it’s adjustable it will hold a Big Gulp with no problem whatsoever.
Somewhere, Bill Hicks is smiling.
IIRC it was an old commercial for a Cavalier
Scene opens to picture of a corvette cruising down the Road
[announcer}
the 19xx Chevrolet Corvette, Dual overhead cams, reclining bucket seats, sunroof, rack and pinion steering, etc, etc, etc
[/announcer]
Scene switches to cavalier
[announcer]
the 19xx Chevrolet Cavalier which has all of the features cited above plus [scene switch to console of cavalier] this cool beverage holder the corvette dosent have.
[/announcer]
I laughed my ass off when I saw it for the first time.
As long as we’re bitching about fast-food-cup-related topics, what kind of a gluesniffing tweezerhead goes into a place that offers free refills on its beverages and orders anything other than the smallest cup available?
(Presuming they’re not getting takeout, of course, which precludes the possibility of refilling the cup.)
Ok ok, I’m an evil stupid person. I tend to buy larger sizes when I KNOW I get free refils.
However it has to do with the whole oppertunity cost.
Supposition 1)
I’m a lazy lazy bastard
Typically I can consume a little over a liter of fluid with a meal, especially if its a all you can swallow, purge and swallow again sort of dispenser thing. Now if I bought a small cup (let us please not get into the whole small, medium, or High Bulgarian word for incremental increase over small arguement again) and let us say the afforementioned cup is about the size of a preschooler’s shoe then I’d have to make roughly umpteen bigillizion trips, thereby ruining the ambiance of fast food dining (namely avoiding touching ANY surface).
Supposition 2)
I’m already having the marketing ploy equivelent of “a 5 gallon-unlubricated bucket shoved up my rectum at my explicit request”.
Let us think: How much does it cost the fast food restraunt to fill your cup with fizzy beverage. I heard a few years ago from a friend that it costs less than 10 cents for cup (most expensive part) ice and fizzy stuff. A small cup costs you $0.99 plus tax.
If the cup is say $0.06 and the rest of the cost is 50-50 between ice produciton and storage of the ice. If you are like me you put a lot of ice in your cup since you know you can keep going back and getting more beverage, so you really only get ice once.
Now we’re down to 2 cents for the actual beverage.
Now, say you drink 10 cups worth.
You cost the fast food place $0.28 or about 28% what you paid for it.
Now take me:
$1.50 $1.99 for my cup.
Lets say jumbo cup sizes are $0.10 and it costs $0.08 for ice and beverage ($0.04 for each).
Now lets say I drink 8 cups worth, for a total of $0.50.
I cost the fast food place 30%-25% of the price of my beverage.
So according to this, in the best case I’m costing the fast food place more money than you are, thus putting them out of buisness faster.
End result:
WHO CARES!
I’m a LAZY BASTARD
anyhoo, I killed enough time dinner’s done.
Mc’ds are evil i know that from working there for 6 months
small drinks are for the employees working in a burning hot kitchen for 8 hours and getting a small thimble sized cup
oh gee thanks
on another note in Japan they sell soft drinks like this its like 200 yen for a can of drink 330ml 200 yen 200ml 200 yen , the 200ml drink sells more for some reason , since they are taught to not be greedy , whearas in Western civilisation we are often taught the opposite
I noticed that. It about made me vomit.
I went to Panda Express tonight and I got a medium. It was fucking huge! I’m still drinking it. I can barely hold it in my hand, the sucker’s so wide.
I went to McDonald’s with my friends after prom last year. For irony.
Enough time has passed that this is almost a hijack, but I know the SB’s in Japan have three sizes. I’m blanking on what they call the smallest, but the other two are Tall and Grande.
you were in Japan and you went to Starbucks?
sigh
I went to Pizza Hut after the prom once. I grew up in Lower Asscrack, KY, where the prom started early so everyone could go to Lexington (1 1/2 hour drive away) to go out somewhere. However, my parents wouldn’t let me drive all the way to Lexington, so instead we went to the Pizza Hut 30 minutes away. There were four of us, and we were the only people in the place. There are great pictures of us playing pinball in our formal wear.
I agree with the bitching about sizes. I really hate it when they carefully explain things to you when you order a “small” something. “We don’t have a ‘small’, sir, we only have medium, regular, mediocre, grande, venti, ferrari, maserati, and Big Mo’Fucker.” I can’t blame them; they’re just tools of the establishment, who are tools of their own market research. Still, I like to think they’d be able to figure out what I mean by “small”.
This matter should be legislated. “In any establishment that sells beverages, the smallest size that is not intended as a sample shall be designated ‘small’. The largest size intended for consumption by a single individual shall be known as ‘large’. If a third size is to exist, it shall be approximately the size of a ‘small’ plus half the difference between ‘small’ and ‘large’, and shall be designated as ‘medium’.”
Dr. J
Marketing? Just wait until the unemployed dot-com marketing folks make their way into the fast food chains. Instead of medium, large and extra large drinks, you’ll see “dynamic beverage solution,” “robust beverage solution” and “world-class beverage solution.” Meal combos will become “quick dining suites.” The counter will be a “point of purchase station.” “Food” will become a verb. Ugh.
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At movie theaters, you have a choice (in both drinks and popcorn) of Large, Medium or Child’s size. You’re supposed to be too embarrassed to order a kid’s drink for yourself, “forcing” you to pick a larger size.
:rolleyes:
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