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...and they do it with coffee too. 1/2 litre of something that cannot be called coffee... you can see the bottom of your cup through it. recolonise!

When I worked at Taco Bell, I would make food like how I would want it and I would ice and fill drinks how I'd want it: just enough ice and filled to the brim with no overflow or mess. The trick is to tilt the cup and overfill it, so that the foam rolls out of the cup as you're filling it, then untip it as you top it off. The momentum of the overflow keeps the side clean if you do it right, kind the same energy as snapping off a paper towel or toilet paper from a roll one-handed.

And half a litre isn't?

Imagine only drinking 250ml of water with a fatty burger and fries. Y'all are dehydrated.

Yeah, but it's mostly ice.

The real insanity is still using X/Twitter

"liter of soda ot once.."

Well, unless you ask for no ice is more like 325oz of soda with 425oz of ice. Yet also cost $3.29 because fuck you.

"Then, there is a horrifying 512-ounce version that they call child size. How is this a child-sized soda?"

"Well, it's roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It's a real bargain at $1.59."

Source: Parks and Recreation S5E02

It's insane to me that the US small is almost as big as the UK large.

It’s all ice anyway….

It's okay. They pack all the US sizes full of ice first, so it's simultaneously not that bad and a complete rip-off.

Well, you’re not really supposed to drink it all in one sitting. You’re supposed to drink it all in less than a full sitting and then get a free refill to throw out the window on the way back home because the ice melted and you have several liters of cola in your fridge anyway.

Ill take a litre of cola

Drinking soda regularly (as a replacement to water) is fucking disgusting.

80 percent water ice and 20 percent soda.

Important to bear in mind that Americans also put a ton of ice in the cup too.

Wait until you get up to an 8 Ball of coke in one sitting...

When I was a teen we'd often get a "cube" (24 pack of 12oz cans) of Mountain Dew and drink it in a night. It seems horrific to me now.

The bigger the sitting the bigger the shitting

And yet... I will happily drink 2 litres of beer in one evening lol

Even the smallest size is over 400ml? How are Americans not constantly dying for a piss and feeling bloated as hell?

and they will probably all cost the same.

Another fun comment, movie theaters used to have absolutely gigantic portions (yes, even bigger than now). Cobb Theaters had a soda called "The Cobbster" which was 80oz. It was basically a popcorn bucket full of soda with a straw. And it came with free refills, it was the only size to do so. I imagine that was because only a maniac would actually come back for a refill. I did it once to "get my value", but I couldn't actually drink any more.

there's two things you just can't take from us americans:

• high power semi-automatic rifles
• sodabuckets

edit: i'm not saying it's a good thing, i'm just saying we're weirdly politically motivated when it comes to these two things