singular "small fry"

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:15 PM -0500 12/19/08, Ann Burlingham wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>>  Hard (although not impossible) to take it that
>>  way, given that there's no well-defined category
>>  of a small
>>  french-fried-potato-Stück-from-McDonald's to
>>  which an average calorie content could be
>>  assigned, as opposed to that of a small
>>  Pepsi-from-McDonald's.
>
>Pepsi from McDonald's? Highly unlikely. or unReal.

Oh, are they on the Coke side of the isocola?  Well, mutatis mutandis.

LH

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