Decius wrote:

Two of the world's biggest glassware makers, Libbey and Cardinal International, say orders of smaller beer glasses have risen over the past year. Restaurateurs "want more of a perceived value," says Mike Schuster, Libbey's marketing manager for glassware in the U.S. Glasses with a thicker bottom or a thicker shaft help create the perception. "You can increase the thickness of the bottom part but still retain the overall profile," he says.

Clearest proof yet we're in an economic contraction. The U.S. needs a pint law! Ah, the benefits of monarchy...

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Oh God! They can't be shinking! That's horrible! I will not stand for the shinking of beers! Shinking them is unacceptable! Clear and simple. You cannot allow the beers to shink, because once they've shunk the beers while we sit idly by and let it all go down, then they will begin shinking everything that we love! Stop this plot!

RE: Beer sizes shinking - WSJ.com