Quirky Sizes

Posted by Miss Cellania in Everything Else on November 24, 2008 at 3:29 pm



Back in the day, you could order a “small”, a “medium”, or a “large” of just about anything. The names have changed! Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will find out how well you know the cutesy and creative names companies give to their sizes. I scored 60%, which is better than I expected, since almost none of these chains exist where I live. Link


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7 comments to "Quirky Sizes"

  1. matt
    November 24th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    i like the Contra reference in the In-And-Out question.

  2. liphttam1
    November 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I got only half way done before it froze it keeps freezing. AWW man.

  3. Jake D.
    November 24th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Did anyone see Role Models yet? One of my favorite scenes is when Paul Rudd acts like an ass to the woman who works at Starbucks.

    “‘Tall’ is large, ‘Grande’ is Spanish for large, ‘Venti’ is the only one that doesn’t actually mean large. It’s Italian, it means 20. Congratulations, you’re stupid in three languages.”

    Haha.

  4. Miss Cellania
    November 24th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Jake D, I haven’t seen the movie, but we’ve all seen that scene.

    http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/14/videosift-clips-of-the-week-12/

  5. burt
    November 25th, 2008 at 12:20 am

    got 90% though i only knew a few of them, i educatedly guessed the rest of them, from my knowledge of wonky fast food naming schemes. the one i missed was about the hadron collider, i assumed that one was going to be a trick question, so i picked the same name it already has.

  6. Funkly
    November 25th, 2008 at 2:57 am

    I really had a bad attitude one day with a kid in McDonald’s who was too ignorant to understand that Medium is the middle size, that the customer is always right, and that picking your battles is what it’s about.

    “…and a medium Diet-Coke, please”

    “We don’t have medium, we have Regular, Large, & Supersize.”

    “Insulting a customer by telling him you don’t have a medium sized drink is not a good practice.”

    No matter what I said, it went downhill from there. I’m assuming he’s been promoted to Manager by now. They love those who toe the company line at McDonald’s.

  7. Rocky Rook
    November 25th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    I’ll pass on this one.


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