What's your guilty pleasure restaurant on the road?

[Pete from Boston]

One thing I prefer about pretty much any coffee shop other than Starbucks is that you can just order "small," "medium," "large," etc., without them trying to "correct" you to use some silly jargon. I don't go to Starbucks that often, I don't know what their terminology is, and I don't really care–it seems to me if I ask for "whatever the largest size black iced coffee is," it's pretty clear what I want.

One day I just decided this wasn't going to be a problem anymore, and just stopped thinking about saying anything but "small," "medium," or "large" (or "whatever the largest size black iced coffee is") and it really hasn't been a problem.  If they say "venti?" or whatever to me, I just repeat "medium."  I'm not going to commit new cute terms for common sizes to memory any more than I'm going to do so for "cup" or "straw."

A local shop here has yet more terms like "midi" and "sumo."  I also use English there.  In all cases it all works out easily.