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This references the study showing that people eat more when using larger plates, but I think wine drinking is the one instances where those results aren't easily transferrable.

Wine glasses today are usually filled to about 1/4, where (judging by the painting in the article, and my guess) glasses 1/7th the size of today's were filled to the rim.

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Exactly. The photos in the article even show this. The modern glasses shown in the article clearly aren't filled with 7x1700-size servings each, otherwise they'd be drinking literally thimbles worth of wine in the 1700's.

Restaurants do tend to pour only part of a glass, usually 100-175 mL, depending on location, quality of wine, and country. However, I've seen plenty of people in a home environment pour to the top, or at least 2/3 of the glass, they're usually counting their drinks by the bottle though, rather than the glass.

I wonder how much of the liquid/volume ratio is just due to people trying to protect their white carpet...

what do you mean? that'd be an amusing correlation to show, actually, but the study would be torturous.

some anecdata - I spilled an oversized glass of red wine our carpet ina previous house and escalated my wife's 'need' for wooden floors by unknown to immediate. :-)

on a side note we were much happier with the wooden floor

I hope your dog need reduced in parallel. Skating dogs are surprisingly destructive.

You don't know many drunks, I guess. Lots of people fill the glass much more than they are supposed to.

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