The soda issue

I know Andy Rooney probably first ranted about this in 1993 or something but WTF is with a medium soda being the size that a super gigantor soda used to be 15 years ago?

It's a conspiracy by the National Diabetes Council.

Because we as a nation are greedy basards who think that we need a fracken drum of soda with our greasy meal.

probably because theyve substituted cheaper things for their ingredients over the years

What's the difference in this modern age of free-refills?

Yeah, and what's the deal with my car lacking cup holders?! For christ's sake it's a Cadillac, it's a top of the line (in 1993 at least) luxury automobile. It has a digital gas gauge that tells you how many miles are left in your tank, the lights turn themselves on and off according to the outside lighting conditions, and has a nice comfy leather interior with heated seats. So what, it's too nice to have a fuckin' cup holder?!

Not that those insanely giant cups would actually fit anywho, but shit!

and what's the deal with airline food?

Cupholders barely registered on the manufacturer's radar in the 1993 model year (designed four years earlier, in 1989 BTW). Only the forward-thinking companies made any attempt at all, and the ones that did usually did it half assed. Prime examples would be my '93 civic, with flimsy spring loaded pop up rings only big enough to hold cans and the early Saturns, with a square (!!!) can sized depression right over the seatbelt control module in the console. Poor fitting cups and cans would slosh liquid into the console, draining into the seatbelt module, which would then short out and render the mouse-track seatbelts frozen in place.

Brilliant!

It's not soda, it's POP!

It's not POP! It's soda.

The little bubbles, they POP, therefore it is pop.

Pardon, your inner midwestern is showing.

That's actually a rather decent argument in favor of calling it pop.

I mean, the bubbles certainly don't SODA.


I still call it soda, though. Too many Coasters shamed me during my formative years out of calling it pop.

Ya know, it's weird, poeple in the NW use 'pop' to refer to soda as well.

Exactly

It's obvious! Larger sizes equals more room to fill with ice, so they can fill the cups with less soda.

+1

Yeah, I always thought it was a Northwest thing.

It's not soda or pop, y'all. It's all cokes.

It's TOTALLY called soda.

Naw...that's a brand name.

72 ounces!!!

Guess that makes you a Soda Jerk.