i refuse to use starbucks size names

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ElFenix

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I was going to post a new thread but didn't want the dreaded repost police to come after me.

This used to drive me crazy until I finally succumbed and now I order tall or grande, deep down inside I still prefer small, medium, and large. Nope I never order vente or whatever it's called.
Instead you get the necro police

 

SSSnail

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grand
ɡrand/
adjective
1.
magnificent and imposing in appearance, size, or style.
"a grand country house"
synonyms: magnificent, imposing, impressive, awe-inspiring, splendid, resplendent, majestic, monumental; More
2.
denoting the largest or most important item of its kind.
"the grand entrance"
synonyms: main, principal, central, prime; More
noun
1.
informal
a thousand dollars or pounds.
"he gets thirty-five grand a year"
synonyms: thousand dollars; More
2.
a grand piano.

If you want to be technically correct, then grande means large in its native language.


me·di·um
ˈmēdēəm/Submit
noun
1.
an agency or means of doing something.
"using the latest technology as a medium for job creation"
synonyms: means, method, way, form, agency, avenue, channel, vehicle, organ, instrument, mechanism
"using technology as a medium for job creation"
2.
the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.
"radio communication needs no physical medium between the two stations"
adjective
1.
about halfway between two extremes of size or another quality; average.
"John is six feet tall, of medium build"
synonyms: average, middling, medium-sized, middle-sized, midsize, moderate, normal, standard
"medium height"


Now, stop with the pretentious bullshit. I also like how they're copying Maserati's naming convention. Instead of calling it a 20 ounce drink, they call it "venti". Or, in the case of Maserati, "quattroporte" - 4 doors.
 

kranky

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I was going to post a new thread but didn't want the dreaded repost police to come after me.

This used to drive me crazy until I finally succumbed and now I order tall or grande, deep down inside I still prefer small, medium, and large. Nope I never order vente or whatever it's called.

There are times over the years I needed to meet someone at a Starbucks - I always order "small" but I noticed in the last year or so they don't correct me any more.
 

OverVolt

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That weird I call them the peewee, the intentionally give no size so they assume a medium and just keep repeating chocolate mocha until they make a medium chocolate mocha, and the big jumbo wombo coffee wambo.
 
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renz20003

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If you don't make coffee this way...

With beans hand picked by Colombian slave children, and served with Serbian donkey milk... Your doing it wrong.
 

RossMAN

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I make coffee at home. They have this thing now called a 'coffee maker' that literally just makes you coffee for a fraction of the price of a shop. Must be new, because they're not popular.

But jokes aside, starbucks names for everything are beyond stupid. I don't go there because of it.

hipster.
Instead you get the necro police


Do I at least get a phone call? I'd like to call my ATOT attorney.
 
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