Another data point - The online computery journal thingy of a turtle
Jun. 5th, 2008
06:55 pm - Another data point
Went out today and had lunch at the Philly Connection down the street. Their cheesesteak sandwiches come in two sizes: small and regular.
However, based on various comments on my earlier post, I have concluded that the word "regular" is too confusing to use as the name of a size of a side of fries. Therefore, I shall stop using it and stick to "small", "medium", and "large".
Who's with me?
1. I understand that if you go into Starbucks and want to use standard terminology instead of their fancy Italian terms, they'll honor it ('twould be a pretty shabby way to do business otherwise).
2. I know why their smallest size is "tall": they used to have two sizes, "short" and "tall". People wanted more, so they added "grande", and later, "venti" (which isn't a Nazi word, although if you consider Mussolini, it might at the closest be considered "fascist".) :} After a while, people weren't buying "short" anymore, so they discontinued it.
Thus, the Starbucks system is basically an upscale version of the "large/super chubby/double super chubby" system. :}
Which bugs me, because "Grande" is big and "Venti" (or at least Vent) is "Twenty" in French, and whenever I pronounce the words properly (not like an American) I get stares. Their menu basically reads to me: Big, Big and Big. The perils of being semi-bi-lingual!
So I ask for 'Biggest'.