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It may be that people fill their cups with ice before adding the soda because that is what restaurants do, and people have learned to imitate that behavior, even though it shortchanges them. Our culture is highly imitative -- witness the plethora of truly vulgar tattoos and piercings.
...fill their cups completely full of ice?
Is it so difficult to understand that ice takes up space, and that space (volume) is no longer available to fill with soda?
Not to mention the fact that ice melts, diluting the soda!
The soda coming out of the dispenser is cold, so actually ice isn't really needed anyway, unless, of course, you feel it will take you a very long time to finish your drink.
When I buy soda, whether at a self serve fountain or otherwise, I don't want any ice. I am spending $1 or more for that cup of soda, and I want full value.
I find it ridiculous that somebody sued Starbucks because they felt their latte was an ounce or so short, yet they will fill their cup with ice and get 1/4 the soda they paid for!
They give TOO MUCH soda anyway. I end up throwing the rest out after my meal anyway. What used to considered a "small" cup today, was a "large" back in the 1970s.
Not everybody does it for the same reason.
As previously mentioned, some do it out of imitation, ignorance, indifference...
...I prefer to drink soda extra, extra cold in the summer, thus ample amount of ice.
Sure the grade of cola gets watered down some, but not enough to discontinue this habit.
If I'm in a car for extended period of time or bringing it home, then I ask for little to no ice.
...fill their cups completely full of ice?
Is it so difficult to understand that ice takes up space, and that space (volume) is no longer available to fill with soda?
Not to mention the fact that ice melts, diluting the soda!
The soda coming out of the dispenser is cold, so actually ice isn't really needed anyway, unless, of course, you feel it will take you a very long time to finish your drink.
When I buy soda, whether at a self serve fountain or otherwise, I don't want any ice. I am spending $1 or more for that cup of soda, and I want full value.
I find it ridiculous that somebody sued Starbucks because they felt their latte was an ounce or so short, yet they will fill their cup with ice and get 1/4 the soda they paid for!
I like the noise the ice makes when it lands in the cup, if no one is watching, I'll dump the ice behind the machine and do it all over again..."whirrrrrr...cloppity, clop, clop, clop" man, I can listen to that sweet sound all day long can't you?
After reading the posts and thinking about my own life changes I looked up a few interesting stories on drink sizes.
In 1955 McDonalds offered a 7 ounce Coke with the meal. The Fries came in one size only, 2.4 ounce and that was smaller than the kids size fries offered today. That was the only size drink and the only size fries. A regular large fries today is 6.7 ounces.
When I was a kid the biggest fountain drink was 20 ounces. You could still get 8 ounce drinks and a can of soda or popp if you prefer was a large drink for most.
In the 1980's places like 7 11 started offering the Big Gulp and drinks like it. The biggest Big Gulp back in the early 1980's was a 32 ounce fountain drink and when I was in high school we thought that was gigantic. Most of us still picked up a 20 ouncer or less because the 32 ounce drink looked too big. You could get a 12 ounce cup back then.
Today a 44 ounce drink is standard size at the local Circle K, 7-11, and almost all the other small format stores that I see around here. Some places sell a 120+ ounce drink and KFC had a gallon bucket that you could order.
The average stomach holds about 28 to 29 ounces.
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