As I was standing in line at one of the thousand local Starbucks's, a thought occured to me. More a question, really. Who invented the sizing of Starbucks? First of all, why are 2 of them in one language (Italian, to be random enough), and one in English? And so the one in Italian which I'm sure most of us can guess is Grande. Grand. Big. Right? Wrong! No, obviously grande is medium. Duh. So then theres "tall". Well, most of us aren't used to our drinks being described in height, but to make an educated guess I'd say.. well... medium or large? I mean wouldn't small be "short"? Wrong again! Tall is obviously small. And then last of all we have venti, which most people probably can't take time out of their caffiene-spiked lives to guess, but it means "20". And boy does that make sense, because obviously "20" is large.
Not only is this system way to confusing, but why just Starbucks? Are they just that much classier that they have to purposely make ordering a daily dose of joe like being in Finland?
The best part of it all is the fact that if you say "small", "medium", or "large", the baristas will just take it and convert it. Only true Starbucks junkies need learn the lingo (thank God!)
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