Barbara

Anglophile, when you take your son to a restaurant in the US, what does he drink there? I've not yet been in a restaurant, other than fast food, where you can get soft drinks by the quart.

BrimhamRocks

You can get BIG GULP drinks, which are humongous cups of Coke, Sprite, whatever, in Quick-E-Mart or 7-11 type shops. Those things are really huge. I can never drink one all by myself.

That might be what Anglophile47 is referring to.

Barbara

That's exactly the what she is referring to, BUT, you don't get them in bars or restaurants here.

Barbara

"here" being the US.

cmeyer54

I think the difference in the states is that free refills are fairly common; you just don't see that in Europe and the drinks tend to be smaller in size at the outset.