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A regular coffee is 1 cream and 1 sugar, so the sentence in the first panel is a command. He's even pointing at the guy while he says it. The nasty racist then backtracks when he notices the barrista's cold dead stare and realizes he is large enough to snap him in half.
I'm just joking around, but really the more I think about that first panel, the more it annoys me.
edit: I wasn't seriously considering this a racist comic, but pointing out a widely used label and grammar will make the first panel hilariously ironic to many people.
"Regular" being the size.
The term regular size coffee implies the existence of irregular size coffee
"Large" and "Small" being considered "irregular" sizes of coffee.
I was going for weird numbers, π/2 sizes but yeah
I think that's regional, maybe to east coast US (or just NYC)? Anywhere else I've been in the US "regular coffee" referred to black coffee.
I'm in Western Canada. As an example, Tim Horton's calls a regular coffee 1 cream and 1 sugar nationally.
But, I was only pointing this out because it's funny considering the point the comic is trying to make.
Interesting, didn't know that it was like that throughout Canada too. None of those options are available to me in the Midwest US. And agree! Definitely think it's funny to point out, I just was giving more context because I (incorrectly) thought it was only "regular" in a small region.
Where are you that still has Tim Hortons? All of the ones in the Twin Cities are no longer in business. I'm slightly disappointed, but based on what I've heard from Canadians if I get to try it I'll probably still be slightly disappointed.
There are still quite a few around Ohio. I haven't been in years though, because yea, it's disappointing now.