03-19-2016, 01:16 AM
RAMd®d wrote:
In USA, the land of "Larger is Better", no one wants to buy a "small drink", so the merchants renamed those M, L and XL.
Correction:
In the USA, the land of "Larger is Better" most vendors still use Small, Medium, and Large, and sometimes Extra Large.
I deliberately used Medium, Large, and Extra Large, and mentioned language because Starbucks uses Tall, Grande, Venti, and Trenta (the last three being Italian) for the marketing reason you mentioned. Short is uncommon, it seems.
Not being a coffee drinker, I had to look up the last two sizes' names. I also learned s there are volumes in ounces assigned to the sizes. http://www.foodworldnews.com/articles/71...-means.htm
But fret not, many of us in the USA have no need for compensating and order Small without compunction.
That article is just reporting on cup sizes. Not on the amount of coffee in the cup. There is a distinct difference.
A sealed beverage in a container sold in a store will list the fluid ounces of the liquid inside, not the fluid ounces the container can hold. My 20oz bottle of pop holds 22oz of liquid when full to the brim, but it is not full when you buy it and since it is sealed and sold by volume you are told how much liquid is inside.
The cups that a restaurant uses are not sealed and are printed with the volume of the container(sometimes). The beverages are sold as a named size, not as a set amount of liquid in the container. Just like with a bar serving beer, your pint glass you get doesn't have a full 16oz of beer in it.