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BuzzFeed did a short video on this and the US and Australian McDonalds large are very similar.

http://i.imgur.com/UJMBMEA.png

It is BuzzFeed though -- so who knows.

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Hmm, that's odd. When I was in the US, fast food restaurants tended to have much larger cup sizes - with hard plastic rather than a paper cup in the large size, presumably for stability (like [1]). In that comparison image, the small would be an Australian medium, the medium a Large and a US large size only available at cinemas who have enormous cups.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/g8qLjAQ.jpg

The largest size purchasable in Germany at McDonalds is 400ml, less than one pint.

In Australia, the Large is the biggest size you can purchase. I believe in the US there's another, larger size?

There used to be. Now it's just S/M/L (plus a very small children's size) which are 16/21/32 oz.

This is also another pricing curiosity. Who buys a large when there are free refills? I guess I don't understand it, but I gave up drinking everything that is in a fountain many years ago. When I eat out I usually just don't drink anything except coffee or water.

You raise another important point - Australia doesn't have free refills, for any size.

You buy a large if you aren't staying in the restaurant. Drive thru and to go!

I wish they'd textually labeled the countries. Maybe I'm geographically illiterate.

Japan, India, HK, UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore

Tiny city-states are not known for being particularly recognizable unless you've been there.

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