Humongous is the New Small
Posted by Reporter on Saturday
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Jeff and I were at the theater today and he ordered a small soft drink. (Sigh….)
When he walked up with his “small” drink, I was shocked. I grabbed it and said, “You HAVE to photograph this!”
I asked him if he was going to drink it all even though he wanted a smaller size. He looked at me like I was telling him what to do, not asking. Okay, maybe I was passively suggesting that he didn’t have to drink it all. He said next time he’ll order this same size and if we are with a group of people who want soda, too, he’ll order three or four empty cups. I wonder how that would go over….
He told me that when he stopped in at a coffee shop yesterday for a mocha the cashier asked what size and he said, “Small.” He said the cashier asked why he would just want small when for a few cents more he could get a much larger mocha.
Just because you can get more for less, doesn’t mean you should. On that note, I can’t believe McDonald’s is currently advertising all soft drinks for $1. In this case “more” is just more sugar, calories and chemicals that our bodies suffer from. We get NO nutrients from soda!
“Super-sizing” our portions is undoubtedly super-sizing us!
When I did a search hoping to pull up the actual dollar drink ad, I found instead a bunch of blogs of people who are really excited to be getting this good deal….
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