How big is a cup of coffee? The answer is not clear

The size of the standard service that Mr. Coffee came to be a 5 ounce cup, the size of a cup of British tea. Although it seems small now, it really corresponds to the size of the cups that people use for coffee at that time, Esposito said.

It is also the size that Esposito, an Italian origin, is still considered reasonable.

Blame the mermaid

You can determine a cup of coffee in the US in two periods: BS and AS

Everything began to change in the late 80s, Esposito said, somewhere around a former Xerox salesman named Howard Schultz decided to bring a cafe established by Seattle on the national stage. After Starbucks, the cup of coffee became bigger.

They have created their own language for all their drinks and sizes and everything. Therefore, a 'small' to Starbucks is really like a 'big' anywhere else, he said, Jemison, the salesman of Portland Coffee Machine.

From my memory, until Starbucks, most coffee drinks are reasonable. I mean, the cups have a reasonable size, ESP Esposito confirms with Wired. After that, the larger sizes were introduced.

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It is likely that cup inflation has begun before Venti Diasporta. But when Starbucks expanded in the 1990s, Esposito said, other local cafes feel needed to compete. The coffee cup becomes larger, and how her customer's awareness about how big a cup is.

Now, when customers come to Fante to get a coffee machine, she has to stop to explain that a coffee machine cup does not correspond to the cup, and it does not correspond to her customer cup really drinking coffee.

When people come and ask for a coffee machine and they look at '12 cups, 'we automatically explain,' that's not the size of your Coc, 'she said.

Just double it

But although we drink a cup of coffee twice as much as before, coffee machine companies do not have a special engine to change their cup size. Doing so will make their device look half bigger than before, and half as big as competitors. '

Mathematics, instead, fall into you: You will need 2 cups for a diet, at least if you drink a 10 ounce coffee cup is now considered a standard. However, it will take 4 cups to fill a cup of Yeti or one of them Stanley beer Steins A folk like drinking coffee these days.