Idiocracy Sized Drinks
February 3rd, 2008 by MarkI’ve been living abroad for a while, and it’s given me a slightly different view of stuff at home than I’d have if I’d stayed. On my way to Boston I had to stop at a gas station. A couple of things leaped out at me. The first was the price of gas. I remember it was hovering around a dollar a gallon when I left, and but now it’s over three.
The other thing was the sheer size of the drinks. The first thing they made me think of was the movie Idiocracy, but I’m not sure if they were this big even in the dystopian future depicted in that movie. I’m used to the large size being 22oz or something like that. Even drinking the second biggest size drink I saw at the gas station left me feeling like I’d just put my pancreas through a strainer. I mean… who drinks half a gallon of soda in one serving? Seriously…
Update: This video is only vaguely related, but I’ve been looking for an excuse to post it.
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February 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Ummmmmm. Type-2 diabetes in a cup. Those in Mass have it easy when it comes to gas. Us fools that live in New York (state) pay at least $0.20 more a gallon.
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I see you are quite good with US measurement system. Ounces, gallons… How many milliliters and liters? When you are mentioning temperature do you use Centigrade or Fahrenheit? Your international readership is quite confused:-)
Wikipedia says that only Liberia, Burma and US didn’t adopt Metric system.
February 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Vitaly, Google’s really good for that kind of thing.
How many liters in half a gallon. I was thinking in Celsius, for the temperature.
Okay, I’ll go revise that page. We’ve adopted the metric system several times.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:38 am
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I think this video is inherently only able to produce incoherent, Youtube quality comments.
February 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
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March 26th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
[...] Mark went to the US to take care of some business. While he was there, he blogged on the size of fountain drinks at a gas station on the way to Boston. Mark [...]
May 13th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Dude, Hardee’s is something like 42 oz. now. Ridiculous.