>>>>>Re your sandwich- soon it will come with a nutrition label. Check out http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/52272.html for a sample of what you can expect.
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>>>>>Won't menus be a barrel of laughs once that happens-
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>>>>>- "Gee, I can't order that, it contains 4 golf balls of fat!"
>>>>>- "Mum, look, this burger has enough calories for me for 3 days! Can I have fries as well?"
>>>>>- "Would you like to supersize that, sir?" ... "What, you trying to kill me? That's a trans-fat murder weapon you're shoving at me. I'm gonna sue!" ;-)
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>>>>>BTW, the sandwich doesn't look too bad. But do you have it with fries or add glops of mayo or extra m-jack? ;-)
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>>>>Doesn't it get you when you order a "picture", then they say "regular or large drink?"?
>>>>- "Whatever's on the picture"
>>>>"Would you like to max that for an extra ..."
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>>>This actually happened to me. I was in a fast food joint and the cashier asked me what size soft drink I wanted. "Small," I said. In a completely serious tone of voice she said we just have medium, large, and extra large. "Which is the smallest?" I asked. "Medium," she said. "Medium, then," I said.
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>>This is an interesting US marketing phenomenon - the refusal to refer to anything as small.
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>>I've seen Regular, Large and Extra Large (we get this too in the cinemas and burger joints).
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>>But what gets me is that you can't be trusted to say "I'd like picture 3 please but can you max it for me" (after all, the MAX option is emblazoned all over the picture anyway, so you've got to be aware of it); you've got to go through this dreary Q & A with a snot-nose.
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>>Another one that bugs me, in the pubs here, is since Guinness introduced their extra cold pump. My mate always has a Guinness. At the bar, I can't just say "a pint of Guinness" as opposed to "a pint of Guinness extra cold". I've got to say "normal" or "ordinary" cos if I don't I'll be quizzed on it anyway
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>>It's a bit like my old gripe about TV announcers saying "forward-slash" when giving a URL. You never hear anyone say "back-slash" so why do they bother?
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>Sorry, when I'm guiding a client over the phone, I always say 'back-slash' when talking about directories. If I don't I can be darned sure they'll use the wrong one.

Sure! In the one case where "\" is used, in finding paths on a PC. But TV and radio announcers are never giving this info - just web addresses. The point is "/" is and always has been "slash", "solidus" or "stroke". The "\" was only introduced by IBM for their PCs (for SOME magic reason!).