Starbucks has had a lot of changes going on lately including the introduction of their new logo which got rid of the words in an attempt to be recognized purely by their logo similar to the Nike Swoosh or McDonald’s Golden Arches. They are also trying to get away from being simply a coffee shop and branching into selling music and even offering alcoholic drinks at some of their locations.

Just the other day they also introduced their new ‘trenta’ drink size that will only be offered for iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade drinks. It is 31 oz. which is 7 oz. larger than a venti and 0.54 oz. larger than the average human’s stomach. Although the drink is only being offered in 14 states currently it’s not long before you’ll see people walking around with stomach sized drinks in their hands. Starbuck’s main reason for launching this drink was to compete with McDonald’s iced tea drinks that are currently 32 oz.

Seeing that Starbuck’s no longer advertises the fact that they still offer a short drink and many people think that tall is the smallest size my biggest question is when will it stop? Will portion and drink sizes just keep increasing until they’re double the size of a human stomach? Or will our stomach sizes keep increasing so they match the size of the drinks?