Is Barnes & Noble Cheating You? When Venti is Not Twenty. (designbygravity.wordpress.com)

7 points by cschanck 16y ago ↗ HN

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See also: this article from USA Today in 2008 about the way grocery packaging has shrunk - http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-06-11-shr...

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pavel_lishin 16y ago ↗

Also, my big mac wasn't all that big, really.

balding_n_tired 16y ago ↗

Some years back in Orlando I asked the bartender whether they poured anything smaller than a pint. Technically, she said, it's not a pint, it's 14 ounces. Fourteen ounces, I said, is more than technically not a pint, it's just simply not a pint.