Starbucks Offers Ginormous New Drink Size - Neatorama

Starbucks is now offering the trenta size, which is just one ounce short of a full quart. Sadly, it will not be available for straight coffee -- just icy drinks. In this infographic, Andrew Barr of Canada's National Post points out that this size is larger than the average adult stomach capacity.

Link -- Thanks, Jeremy! | Image: National Post, used with permission.

Obviously, that is not an American stomach.

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You've got to remember, though, that the majority of the volume is tied up in ice-cubes.

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No, that is the average capacity. If it were 5000 ml then it would be larger than capacity, except that stomachs grow and I'm pretty sure the actual average American stomach is quite a bit larger than that.

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I really don't get this. Either you drink the whole thing in one sitting, the mere thought of which sends my stomach flipping, or you lug around this vat of tepid liquid with you all day. There is nothing about this new size that make sense to me, other than some delusional notion of saving money by buying your drinks in bulk.

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Obviously this is for your flea circus to swim in.
They can pretend they are seals basking on the ice cubes.

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With ice it will be about the volume of the can of soda. I have measured out a 32 oz cup and it has always been very close to a 12 oz can.

But I do not drink soda or coffee so I will never buy anything from them.

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@Scott-O and glinglin. Because overweight people do not exist anwhere outside of the US? I look forward to you scientific findings when they are published in the leading journals.

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I know people who buy two venti sized drinks and drink them in one sitting...

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Don't forget the calories, depending on what you're getting. You might get plain iced coffee which won't be calorie dense. But if I read this right, you can get any of SB's cold drinks in this size.

A grande mocha frapp is 420 calories (with whipped cream). This new monstrosity will come in at 813 calories.

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Then there's the addition of another word to the humiliating Starbucks lingo.

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