I was down at the datacenter today doing some hardware maintenance on one of the servers. It took about 2 hours and when I was done I felt a bit peckish. So I stopped in to the McDonalds on the corner and ordered a small chocolate milkshake and a small fries. Not exactly the breakfast of champions but it sounded like it would fill the hole.

So I pull up the the drive thru order thingy and said the the lady who graciously took my order "I'll have a small chocolate shake and a small fries please". Well to my great surprise she said to me "we don't have a small size fries, would a medium size be ok?". Well I've always thought myself to be a logical fellow and this left me a bit stunned. So I collected myself and said as intellegently as possible, "huh?!?!".

"How can you have a medium but not a small? If medium is the smallest size you have, would that not be small?" I blurted. She, now stunned too, said in her most intellegent tone "huh?!?!". I said "exactly!".

Well I ended up driving off with about 5 lbs of deep fried potatos and a shake large enough to drown a hippo. It's still bugging me, I think I need therapy.

 

Sizes of Fries are like sizes of pizzas, pretty much standard for all places. I think the reason why McDonald's call their smallest fries a "Medium" instead of a "Small", is that they don't want to mislead people, thinking it is a "regular" small fries like all the other fast food places.

 

They want you to think you are getting more for your money.

 

So the sizes are Medium, Large, Extra Large, Larger than XL, and Super sized?
And of course you can go to Wendy's and and the Piggie, oh I mean Biggie size, for those who think that fries and sodas should feed an entire family.

 

I noticed that with many restaurants now. The don't have small, but "REGULAR" and then "LARGE"...

But McD used to have the frys that came in the white paper container did yours come in that red one?

Marcus

 

Well the white paper thing is what I expected, just a snack, you know. But I got a huge cardboard container full, easily a whole meal worth. It's little wonder that people are getting so fat.

 

your right about that one, no wonder too many americans are overweight

 

I am going for some X-Large fries now.

 

Leave it up to cthree to completely screw with me on a Sunday!!!

I got lost after the "huh" part

 

This ticks me off too but from the other end. I often order a large soda only to receive a medium one. Small is gone, large is medium. Probably explains why people seem to use the word amazing to describe so many commonplace things. The tireless onslaught of hyperbole!