Truckers Drive on the Super Big Gulp, Not Meth. Who Knew?

[Jangler]

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/super-big-gulp-fan-says-7-eleven-duping-1161022.html

Paul Sunby, 50, a biologist with an environmental consulting firm who is all over 7-Eleven for "trying to dupe people" over the actual size of its Super Big Gulp fountain drink. Sunby said the convenience store has reduced the size of the drink from 44 to 40 ounces in a sneaky way — or as he put it, "cleverly, quietly, and diabolically." Meanwhile, he said, the price remains the same: $1.50.

Paul, who is married to one of our business reporters, Lori Hawkins, said he noticed this transgression last summer when the store stopped selling Super Big Gulps for a couple of months, then started up again with a new cup. The old cup used to say Super Big Gulp on it, along with the 44-ounce size. But the new cup, while saying Super Big Gulp, included no size info, Paul said.

"They still say Super Big Gulp, but they no longer had the 44-ounce size printed on them, making people think they're the same thing," Paul groused.

Sunby said he wouldn't be upset if it just said "40 ounces" on the side of the new Super Big Gulp. "They still called it a Super Big Gulp, when in fact it's no longer," he said. "It's somewhere between a Big Gulp and a Super Big Gulp. It's a Not So Big Gulp. To me, the Super Big Gulp is deceased."

"The Super Big Gulp is an American institution, in my mind," he said. "How many truckers have made it across I-10 because of the Super Big Gulp?"

[Doyle]

[Squirrel]

Nothing new alot of companies have been doing this the past couple of years.

[weyco2000]

44 oz cup, damn that's a lot of soda! Big Gulp...the new ephedrine?