Buckets of soda

I want to just get this out there, I know I eat too much fast food. I personally find fast food to be a misnomer, by the time you get in the car and drive to the restaurant and drive back, even if you get it to go and eat it on the way back you often spend more time driving than it would take you to make a sandwich, assuming you have all the ingredients you require at your disposal. With that thought in mind I'd like to propose we call fast food, convenient food, because that's really the case, it's considerably more convenient than it is fast. When I am choosing a fast food restaurant to get my lunch from I normally try to choose some of the better options, unless it's a day where I'm craving something.

One thing I've been trying to cut back on is my soda intake. I certainly don't want to eliminate soda from my diet, but I'd like to reduce my intake to at most 20 ounces per day. I've been getting really frustrated with a recent trend at fast food restaurants. The sodas are ginourmous! Today I ordered a small soda at El Pollo Loco and they gave me a 32 ounce soda. If that's not bad enough, yesterday at lunch I was told that the restaurant I was at didn't even have small cups anymore, so they instead gave me a 32 ounce cup. What the hell is going on? At almost everyone of the larger chains a medium soda is 32 ounces. What ever happened to a small being 12 or 16 ounce cup and a medium being 20 ounce cup? I started noticing a few years ago that cars were starting to be made with larger cup holders, and now most cars can easily accommodate a 44 ounce cup, and many can even accommodate a 64 ounce cup. What's next, a 128 ounce bucket? Are we going to be ordering soda by the keg? Why the hell is it so damned hard to get a small soda these days? Maybe I should just kick the habit after all.