I rest my case.

If they don't want to sell a small, why don't they just take it off the menu entirely? Lots of fast food places did this when they switched to the self-serve, all-you-can-drink model.

They could also offer a "mini" that costs $.50 and is served in a shot glass size cup, then hide the cups and not list it so no one ever buys it. It's their prerogative. But what is the point?

You can still get the old "small" but it's the kid's drink now.

Small now used to be the medium cup. The medium cup is the size of the large and a large is the size of what a big gulp used to be before that super-sized too.

A venti non-fat mocha with no whip is 280. Same mocha with 2% milk is 340 add whip and it's 410 calories. Change that to whole milk and it's 380 w/o whip and 450 with.

A venti-pumpkin spice latte is 510 w/whole milk and whip (440 w/o), 2% is and 410 w/o whip 470 with. Nonfat milk is 330 w/o and 400 with.

A tall whole milk pumpkin spice latte is 330 w/whip and 260 w/o.

That's a 180 calorie a drink difference. 19 drinks is a pound worth of calories difference.

Check it out

Hopefully you pull your pants back up afterwards