{"id":4094,"date":"2010-10-28T05:52:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2010-10-28T05:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T03:52:45","slug":"changing-soda-serving-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/changing-soda-serving-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Soda Serving Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/25\/changing-soda-serving-sizes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Found this\u00a0awesome post on Sociological Images<\/a>, comparing advertised soda servings from the 1950&#8217;s vs. today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/sylvar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Ostrowsky<\/a> sent in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sylvar\/sets\/72157625108936801\/detail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great example of changing norms<\/a> of consumption, highlighting the enormous increase in what is considered a standard serving of soda.<\/p>\n<p>In this 1950s ad for soda, the text proudly proclaims that a 12-oz. can is \u201cking-size,\u201d and includes 2 full servings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Compare it to this sign at Long John Silver\u2019s, where the smallest size is 20 oz., and a 32-oz. medium soda, presented as the default size, is nearly 3 times as large as the 1950s king-size double serving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to admit, the 1950&#8217;s ad (click above to view) caught me a bit flat-footed&#8230;\u00a0even I have a hard time thinking of a\u00a012 oz. beverage can as &#8220;king-size.&#8221;\u00a0 But it just goes to show you how out-of-whack our perceptions of serving size have become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this\u00a0awesome post on Sociological Images, comparing advertised soda servings from the 1950&#8217;s vs. today. Ben Ostrowsky sent in a great example of changing norms of consumption, highlighting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,24,28],"tags":[1501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}