{"id":30763,"date":"2006-06-22T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/06\/22\/the-continuing-phenomenon-of-size-inflation-in-fast-food\/"},"modified":"2006-06-22T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T10:00:47","slug":"the-continuing-phenomenon-of-size-inflation-in-fast-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060622-47\/?p=30763","title":{"rendered":"The continuing phenomenon of size inflation in fast food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5498454\"> Wendy&#8217;s is getting rid of &#8220;Biggie&#8221; and &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; size drinks and fries<\/a> from their menu. Oh, they&#8217;re still offering them, just with a different name. What used to be &#8220;Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;medium&#8221; and what used to be &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;large&#8221;. Even the &#8220;small&#8221; drink is a massive 20&nbsp;ounces, or two and a half FDA servings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s is getting rid of &#8220;Biggie&#8221; and &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; size drinks and fries from their menu. Oh, they&#8217;re still offering them, just with a different name. What used to be &#8220;Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;medium&#8221; and what used to be &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;large&#8221;. Even the &#8220;small&#8221; drink is a massive 20&nbsp;ounces, or two and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Wendy&#8217;s is getting rid of &#8220;Biggie&#8221; and &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; size drinks and fries from their menu. Oh, they&#8217;re still offering them, just with a different name. What used to be &#8220;Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;medium&#8221; and what used to be &#8220;Great Biggie&#8221; is now &#8220;large&#8221;. Even the &#8220;small&#8221; drink is a massive 20&nbsp;ounces, or two and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}