I have to admit, I love a cheeky stop at Starbucks. I know it's overpriced but somehow it represents a lifestyle choice and statement on who we are. Fickle and pathetic yes, but yummy and a treat, absolutely. However there is habit that I have that I should really address. I insist on ordering a "small" latte each time I arrive at the front of the queue (and yes there always is a queue which is something I am yet to understand, I mean really it is only coffee shop you know).
Anyway I am fully aware that the smallest of the coffee choices is actually called "tall" but I can't accept that description. What is wrong with small, medium and large, why does it have be renamed, tall, grande or venti. Yes it does sound posher but really it's not helpful nor descriptive.
It seems that size descriptions are changing everywhere, I recently read that clothes sizes have changed dramatically since the 70's. Apparently, the average British size 14 pair of women's trousers is now more than 4 inches wider at the waist than it was in 1970. In other words, today's size 14 is really what used to be labelled a size 18.
What's going on, are we so pulled in by marketing, do we prefer to deny reality, or are the times changing and I can't adapt??
Either way, does anyone fancy a small latte?
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Every time I go in (again as a treat, but more often as I now know the manageress ;-)p ) I ask for a black coffee. This causes major turmoil as that just isn't an option. As for the options, who is able to understand what these variations are? I am thinking to converting to tea, its far simpler and unlikely to increase the size of my waist even further.
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I have a private giggle by never using my real name when they want to label my cup - in fact, you came up on a recent trip to London ;-) Sad, I know, but it makes me chuckle & feel a bit subversive!
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