We landed on U.S. soil and it didn't take long before we noticed some real size differences. As we were waiting on my parents to pick us up from the terminal (we arrived into Brooklyn via boat, the Queen Mary 2.) We knew there would be a bit of a delay but had no idea how long it would be. As I had an unrelenting headache and the start of hunger pains were starting to set in Alex set off to find relief from both. He shortly returned with: 1-diet, 1- tuna sandwich, 1- bottle of beer, 1- New York times, 2- pain relievers. Immediately I grab for the med's and coke to wash it down, the coke though didn't quite sit in my hand as I was used to, it was larger. No, he hadn't picked up some liter or sharing size or anything, it was the "normal" standard grab and go size. We began to eat some of the full meal size of tuna sandwich which we could happily share as Baxter tried to get in on the action too. We made our way to Missouri over a number of days with supersize meals, cars, drinks and I am sure many other things along the way.
Once back to Missouri we took upon an adventure to go grocery shopping with my mom. Here we were astounded by the supersize veggies, fruits packages and bundles of foods. My mom really only drinks decaf coffee, Alex has a ritual of caffeinated coffee every morning. So, while we were at the store she was sweet enough to pick up some full coffee for the house. She picked up a jug (yes, literally a jug) of coffee that was larger than my head. She then remarks that it used to be bigger and began searching for the larger container of coffee. Why on earth someone would need a larger container of coffee that was not a business was beyond us, though that is the norm here... lots of stuff, and big.
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