>When I first saw the "large size" side drinks at fast foods I started laughing. In Europe the large size is equivalent to the US Medium. Depending on where ex

>When I first saw the "large size" side drinks at fast foods I started laughing. In Europe the large size is equivalent to the US Medium. Depending on where exactly you were, this is the experience of a lot of Americans compared to the sizes from their childhoods. A lot of places missed the point on Super-Size Me and just renamed their sizes to eliminate extra-larges around that time. So a 16oz shifted from being medium to being small.