'Give me a bucket with a straw, honestly. I’ll drink it.'
It’s been almost two decades since I moved from Alabama up to the Northeast, and most of the cultural confusion I initially have is long in the past. I understand “online” doesn’t always mean on the internet, and that if pizza is good, you probably don’t need to dunk it in. But here is a mystery that I still can’t solve: Why are the cups in restaurants so dang small?
Every restaurant is different, I realize this. But I’ve noticed that when I sit down at a restaurant in New York and ask for water — tap is fine! — I’ll get a cute little glass tumbler that can hold, at most, six ounces of water. I’ll finish the water almost immediately, necessitating the poor waitstaff to either continually refill the water, or to give up and leave a pitcher or carafe on the table. I’m not trying to be difficult.
When I’ve raised this gripe to friends, some of them point out that the very small water glass is perhaps strategic as well as aesthetic. The idea, they say, is for you to order a different drink that costs money instead of satiating your thirst with just plain, free water. Which, fair. Restaurants have their bottom lines, I get that. I love a tiny glass for a gentle
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