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Portion control (media.piefed.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 180 points 11 months ago* (34 children)

Me: Just one small coffee thanks.

America:

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  • [–] 48 points 11 months ago (24 children)

    And it comes with free refills

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Free dishwater refills.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Tapwater, you don't need to make shit up when shitting on the USA

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think it was more of a diss on the quality of the coffee in places with free refills.

    I'm a bit of a coffee snob and nothing will beat my locally-roasted specialty coffee in my pour-over, but sometimes shitty diner coffee is what I want.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (19 children)

    No not with coffee. Unless it's just plain coffee with milk/cream and sugar, only fountain drinks and tea get free refills.

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (18 children)

    Unless it's just plain coffee with milk/cream and sugar

    Isn't that...coffee?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    The average american coffee is like 600 calories and has 20mg of caffeine

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    But 200g of sugar!

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    200g of sugar is about 1800 Calories. In American units that's 0.5 diabetuses

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yeah 20g is a lot for a serving in most things.

    I grew up being told soft drinks were a dessert item, not a regular drink. So we only had it on special occasions mainly. Or at fast food once a week when we were older, sports nights usually, since my mom didn’t have time to cook those nights.

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  • [+] -8 points 11 months ago (11 children)

    I'm talking about that Starbucks/Dutch Bros. shit that all the white girls drink. It's more popular than plain coffee in the US.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Is it? I'm not the one downvoting here, I'm just not convinced. There's still a lot of folks drinking drip coffee at home or at greasy spoon joints every day. Starbucks and the like is loudly popular but tons of folks still use the old drip machines or (ugh) cup/pod systems.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    Yes but the topic is about restaurant drink sizes, not what people drink at home. In my experience I see people order fancy coffees more often than plain ones when I go out to eat. Regardless it doesn't matter that much, cause it's all anecdotal anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    That last sentence is the one. Until someone comes out with a study we're not going to know because what we see is informed by where we choose to go. I'm not generally in places where you can buy fancy coffee so I don't see it, but I sure hear about it. If we're only going by what I see then hardly anyone drinks coffee and people order green tea shots at an alarming rate.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Go to any dinner or breakfast restaurant and you'll see the opposite.

    When people "go to get coffee" they go to a café and likely get something more involved than drip coffee.

    When they go to get breakfast and order a coffee it's likely just regular drip and has free refills

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I'm certain you're right. It isn't more popular. It's more popular if you're going out to a café, but most people are drinking drip coffee made at home. I would bet a lot of it still has that super sweet flavored "creamer" crap added though.

    Most people think plain coffee tastes like the burnt shit sold at Starbucks. They've never tasted what coffee actually tastes like, so they buy cheap dark roast coffee and add a bunch of sugar to it because they bought the most bitter thing you can get.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    You're definitely not wrong there. There's good coffee here but you've got to go out of your way to get it. I'll have it from time to time, but I'm not a huge coffee drinker. I'm an unsweet tea guy. You know, or bourbon. I was inoculated by institutional government coffee years ago so nothing phases me.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    You ugh the old drip machine but not the cup/pod system? How dare! Kcups are an abomination and a symptom of everything wrong with this world!

    A good drip machine is fine. Not great, but acceptable.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Actually, American chains like IHOP have coffee denial down to a science, the mug is just about as small as one could reasonably allow, and the ceramic is almost an inch thick. All because someone in middle management did some math in hopes of a promotion a few years down the road on how to save as much money as possible on coffee.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    small as one could reasonably allow, and the ceramic is almost an inch thick

    they better heat that cup with a blowtorch for 5 min. before they pour coffee in it or they will only be serving something akin to iced coffee

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    They need it. Americans don’t get vacation days.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Naw, we get vacation. We are just told we have to ask for it a year in advance, told about 3mo prior whether it was approved, and are unable to use it in lieu of sick days (which we only get 8 or so yearly). Most of the country all work on the same days and times, and so we use vacation to take care of taxes, licenses, permits, etc. Then on top of that, our country is so damn big that travel usually costs more than a 3rd of the entire 1 week vacation.

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