I’ve always been a fan of the orange+chocolate flavour combination, but not yet sure if this extends to Fanta’s new chocolate ice-cream "spider" flavour– It’s simultaneously the most delicious and the most disgusting soft drink ever! Dunno if I’ll try it again (ok I probably will). I got it from Burger King, which is exactly like McDonalds, in that you can’t just ask for a small cheeseburger meal because that’s, like, impossible to comprehend! So generally they will give me either a kid’s meal, complete with promotional toy (Mr Tumnus– oh joy!), or a regular cheeseburger meal with more fries and a larger drink than I actually want. Why can’t they recognize that some people maybe don’t want to consume an entire day’s caloric intake in one sitting? Where’s the "light snack" meal deal?

In a similar vein, I am routinely peeved at Starbucks for pretending to have no idea what constitutes a regular sized cup of coffee. I like a nice, simple flat white, in a cup that’s shorter than it is wide, but it’s always such a chore to get them to serve me this. Their smallest listed size (for this particular beverage) is "Tall" which really means "Bloody Great Mug" – such a shitty way to drink coffee, gulping it down and still ending up with a quarter cup of tepid brown milk at the end of it. If there’s one thing I don’t want from a coffee, it’s a feeling of fullness.

NB: There are notable exceptions– Starbucks Newmarket are actually very nice, and always serve me coffee in cups normally reserved for the long black. Also, McDonalds in Queen Street has this one guy who has twice given me a cheeseburger + small fries & coke for $3! I can’t quite work out what the deal is with that, maybe he assumes I’m a homeless person…?