Comments | cthulugrrl: Why?

cthulugrrl

Why?

Apr 02, 2009 16:06

Why is everyone so frigging afraid of the word venti? It's right up there on the damn menu where you can read it.

I'm sorry, but yesterday I seemed to have a ridiculous number of people going to great lengths to avoid the word venti. And I'm not talking about the people who say "large" because I don't give two shits about people who insist on small ( Read more... )

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crocodlle April 2 2009, 22:19:05 UTC

This is the most educational post EVER. I totally did not know the different between a tall or a grande, and didn't know a venti existed.

I shall now go to Starbucks with a wiser mind on what I want to order. ^_^

- Oscar

cthulugrrl April 2 2009, 23:10:46 UTC

LOl Oscar. You have more Starbucks barista friends than almost anyone I know who isn't employed by the company. I can't believe you haven't heard us bitching about the sizes before. At the beginning of the movie Role Models, the guy is an asshole to a barista about the sizes and his girlfriend totally dresses him down, ending the conversation with "... and by the way, venti means twenty. Twenty ounces. Venti!" Greg actually woke me up to watch that scene. :o ( ... )

crocodlle April 3 2009, 14:15:09 UTC

I was surprised too, actually. I read your post, and I was like, "Man, did I just MISS those conversations every time?"

Still, eventually someone would mention it, and since I sparingly go into Starbucks, at least I can order with little hassle. Maybe I'll order at your store.

To make things worse, I thought tall and grande were the same size, AND that they were the largest sizes, since grande is Spanish for large.

evanthx April 3 2009, 13:34:43 UTC

Well, hell woman! Why couldn't Starbucks use NORMAL words for their sizes? Why the hell did they go smoke pot, make up crappy words for everything, and then expect us to spend months learning their special little language just to be able to go order a damn large cup of coffee? I feel like there needs to be a dictionary sitting next to the order desk just to explain all their terms, and each one should be something like:

OUR STUPID WORD: VENTI
NORMAL WORD: LARGE

cthulugrrl April 3 2009, 15:25:49 UTC

LOL. See, I'm not even arguing against the word large. I know that there are baristas out there who get snotty about people not using our size names, and I feel bad when I hear about them. Because we're not going to correct you if you say large. But going out of your way NOT to use our terms? It's cool if you can't remember or don't know that the 20 ounce size is called a venti. But if you DO know that the size you like to drink is called venti, and you refuse to say the word out of belligerence, to me it's like going to Burger Kind and ordering a "large hamburger with everything" instead of a Whopper. I guess the guy ordering the "mondo" sized drink kind of put my hackles up ( ... )

evanthx April 3 2009, 15:45:05 UTC

I order hamburgers all the time from Burger King. It IS a hamburger, when I tried to remember to order a "Whopper" all it meant is that I ended up at Wendy's trying to get a Whopper. (Seriously.) Possibly a Venti Whopper. So that's pretty much my attempt to fit in, using the right terms at the wrong place. Which means that if I wanted a Venti thingy, I'd just end up asking for a burger and fries and then some snarky Starwench will start posting LJ comments about the idiot that came in that day. ;-)

On my end ... with every little place coming up with their own language subset ... I gave up worrying about it a long time ago. I get coffee and burgers. My life is much easier. And I'm too busy checking out the hot baristas to worry about how upset they are at me.

(I know the word "barista" since I married one. So THAT's pretty much one way to get the lexicon out I suppose.)

cthulugrrl April 7 2009, 00:10:16 UTC

You're braver than I am in terms of ordering at fast food joints. I'm terrified that some nasty minimum wage drone will decide that they don't like the way I ordered my burger and decide to do something vile to it. Actually, I quit going to Burger King altogether almost a year ago because the locations closest to my house are staffed entirely of people for whom the words "no mayo" are apparently either a foreign language or not applicable. I can't make myself eat mayo, you can't scrape or pick it off like onions or tomatoes, and I'm afraid to return it and ask for it remade, so after about 3 meals where I wound up eating just fries, I stopped going. Now I try to convince my husband to do Chick Fil A when he's in the mood for drive through, or I settle for the smaller hamburger at other places because it maximizes my chances of getting food I can eat without fear. It's probably a good thing, because now I'm in the habit of eating the burger and not the Whopper, I'm saving calories on the rare occasions when we go out of town and I get ( ... )

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