When ordering drinks, T always wants to order the largest size but end up only drinking a third or so. Nonetheless, he would never scoop himself to order a small size, since he thinks anything less than a large would be for a “baby”.
We were out walking today and stopped in at Starbucks; of course, T wanted a LARGE vanilla bean frappuccino. I told him that Starbucks didn’t have a “large” size but had a “tall”. Thinking that “tall” meant the tallest size, he readily ordered a “tall” frappucino. As the barista was making his drink, he looked at me and said, “that doesn’t look very tall!” W and I had a good laugh and told him that at Starbucks, “tall” was their small size. “Why would they call a small size, tall?” T wanted to know. Good question…
Due to the American way of wanting more-more-more (SuperSize me please!) they had to come up with larger cups throughout the years. The sizes became Italian from then on (as explained above) with “Grande” meaning “Large”, “Venti” for being 20oz, and the brand-new-not-available-everywhere-as-it-is-still-in-testing-stage (not everyone wants 30oz of coffee, but some do. Please the customer is a business’ motto if they want to grow and make money, right?) “Trenta” meaning 30.
Read more at http://hotword.dictionary.com/starbucks-trenta/#dCmDxjUoU9aVY6YG.99
As the story goes, T only finished half of his “tall” frappuccino and handed the leftover to me.
Next time, T, you are getting a kid-size frappuccino!
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