"regular" is not a size....

[Food Lady]

....unless you're buying pants, which we don't sell. I get this a lot. They say "fries" or "drink", and when I ask what size, they respond "regular", which probably means medium, so now I ask "medium?" to clarify. Backfired on me today as the guy did. not. respond. I had to ask 3 times before his wife answered for him. On the 3rd try I even said, "So that's a medium fry and 2 small drinks." Then his wife says, "It looks like the day's not going well." No, and my inability to get any info out of you is the reason. When they came up to get dessert she was distracted by the shiny lights and then asked if I had a microphone on. What difference would it make if I did? The funny part was that the husband looked at her and made a "hurry up" motion.

[Betweenshades]

People are weird.

When I worked FF, I always assumed it to mean whatever was included in the basic price without any upcharges. Worked most of the time until you got the twit that meant "THEIR" regular, which was funny when you'd never seen that person before.

[bhskittykatt]

I've actually seen at least one FF place (I can't remember which one) that had "Regular, Medium, & Large" size drinks. Then there is the place up the street that has "Medium & Large" but no small.

[ApolloSZ]

I think that might be a store based thing. Over here some fast food places have combos "served with a reg. fries and drink" (I always understood it to be a 'regular' i.e. a small). Other places have S M L

[Moon]

I guess some people (seems to be guys for some odd reason) have a severe aversion to the word "small", so they use "regular" instead and confusion ensues. Could also be why some places have medium, large, and extra-large... but nothing below medium except the occasional child size.

[bainsidhe]

To me regular means medium...whatever that means. In fast food, one person's small is another company's large and yet another company's medium. So now I ask "Can you hold up the cup?". At least then I'll know how big their "medium/regular" is.

[hinakiba777]

I have been to places that regular meant large, other small, other medium. It's a little confusing.

Though I do love when you try to get someone to specify and they just repeat the word. Like Dinner. Which can be either supper or Lunch. Some people I know will just say dinner over and over again no matter how much you ask them to specify.

[Lots42]

Dinner means lunch sometimes? You learn something new every day.

[Kiwi]

I have been to places that regular meant large, other small, other medium. It's a little confusing.

Though I do love when you try to get someone to specify and they just repeat the word. Like Dinner. Which can be either supper or Lunch. Some people I know will just say dinner over and over again no matter how much you ask them to specify.

Yup my grandfather had dinner at noon and supper or tea at 6pm every day pretty much his entire life.

[Stryker One]

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[EricKei]

Dinner means lunch sometimes? You learn something new every day.

yup especially in the Deep South, on Sundays...Sunday Dinner usually gets rolling around 1 or 2 pm.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

Around here Lunch is your noontime meal, Supper is your evening meal, and Dinner refers to either of those and is interchangeable. I'd be pretty confused if someone just kept repeating "Dinner" over and over again.

"Do you mean lunch, or supper?"

"Dinner!"

"Yes, but which one?!?"

Weird how these terms get defined, isn't it?

[Food Lady]

Well, I get that there's confusion. It's hard to say what regular means with us because we have 4 sizes. That's why I clarify. But they don't answer me. They just spit out their order and proced to ignore me until I spit out a price. OK, fine, maybe everyone who does this gets a large. (Why not make some money for the store, you know?) If I did that they'd complain the fries were too big. I absolutely cannot win.

[MadMike]

I seem to remember back when I was a kid, McDonald's used to have a size they called "Regular." But I'll be damned if I can remember which size that was.

Interestingly enough, I can also remember when today's medium drink used to be the "large."

Damn I'm getting old.

[Seshat]

It was then 'small, regular, large'. Of course, the then-regular is te now-small.