Beer

Although your favorite shit-gripper is very much an ex-beer drinker, he nevertheless remains incensed by this article in the Wall Street Journal about restaurants and bars short-changing their customers.

Many have quietly replaced their 16-ounce pint glasses with 14-ouncers, naturally charging the same price as before. The glasses look the same but have an artificially-thick bottoms and are known as "falsies" by bartenders.

Bartenders are also encouraged by owners to increasingly pour 'pints' with heavy heads of foam, potentially denying drinkers up to two extra inches of beer in their glass!

Thankfully, beer drinkers have a voice in the shape of website Beer Advocate where forums are full of stories 'outing' rogue pint-pouring establishments across the country with comments from consumers and unhappy bartenders alike.

A GameWorks bartender is quoted as saying their staff are actually trained to say "it's a pint" when serving a (mere) 14-oz glass of beer, whilst the director of marketing for RMD Corp (a franchisee for Hooters Restaurant) boasts that by serving 14-oz pints they can get "20 more beers out of a keg".

Maybe the ultimate bit of 'spin' comes from Tanny Feerer, a vice president at Damons International (owner of Damon's Grill locations). She claims that "someone who comes in and wants a beer doesn't want a huge glass". What an idiot.

The shit gripper suggests that if you ordered a PINT of beer - you should kick up a fuss to make SURE you receive a PINT of beer.