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to wonder why people say "full fat" coke?

134 replies

MrsHuxtable · 28/09/2011 10:10

Because it's not. Coke has no more fat in it than Diet Coke or Coke Zero. The difference is that Diet Coke is sugar-free but instead has all the other nasty sweeterners. So if you have to, call it "full sugar" coke or whatever but
FULL FAT coke does not exist. It's one of my pet peeves.....

OP posts:
LetThereBeRock · 28/09/2011 11:20

I've never heard anyone say that Irn Bru helps when you're ill. Lucozade yes,Irn Bru no.

BonnyBanks · 28/09/2011 11:20

Me too - and I really must be going now you entertaining ladies have made me late...

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:21

Yes. Marlboro Reds. Or Camels.

Saggyoldclothcatpuss · 28/09/2011 11:21

Irn Bru is pretty wonderful! I heard somewhere that 'Brussells' wanted to remove the sunset orange colouring in it, as its very bad stuff, and the powers that be in Scotland refused! Good on them! I was always quite shocked at the sugar content though. 1 can is 30+% of your daily sugar content! Doesnt stop it being bloody lovely though! Grin

AitchTwoOh · 28/09/2011 11:23

lol! if you are saying ginger rather than gunghuh you've no business using the term.

anyway, mrsh, there is a reason why in six years you've never heard the term... truthfully, no one really uses it any more. i bet that despite their protestations if both bonny and letitrock were asking their dps to get them some coke or even irn bru from the shops, wouldn't ask for ginger. we use brand names now, let's be honest.

AitchTwoOh · 28/09/2011 11:23

oh yyy Camels. or those lethal norwegian cigarettes? anyone remember them?

maighdlin · 28/09/2011 11:23

I hate it when people call it "fat coke" i call it "normal coke".

However the "juice" thing does my head in. All drinks are "juice" according to DH. He would ask to me to hand him the "juice"(coke) and I sarcastically get execited going "OMG i didn't know there was a coke fruit!" He is also an idiot who says "pissghetti" instead of "spaghetti" he is not under 3 and can say it so say it!!!

LetThereBeRock · 28/09/2011 11:27

LetThereBeRock! Not LetItRock! The hole you're digging grows ever deeper.Angry

And yes people do still use the term. I might have to specify which type of ginger,and while I generally use the term soda, if we're discussing carbonated drinks in general,but I do still use it now and again.

In fact I'm going to try to use it as often as I can now,because of this thread.Grin

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:27

Don't think I do remember them, Aitch.

I also remember a phase of Gitanes / Gauloises. Full fat AND filterless...

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:28

I am now gasping for a fag. No matter how long it's been since I gave up, ALWAYS an addict.

AitchTwoOh · 28/09/2011 11:29

oh yes oh yes, the eurorailing gitane hangover...

SODA, letthereberock? SODA?! are you AMERICAN?

LetThereBeRock · 28/09/2011 11:30

I don't remember,and in fact haven't even heard of Moray Cup,but I've just Googled it,and it seems that it's a Teuchter drink found in the North East. I'll have to try to get my hands on some.

LetThereBeRock · 28/09/2011 11:31
Grin
AgentProvocateur · 28/09/2011 11:32

Does anyone call fizzy juice/ginger/pop etc minerals? It was always on the side of the Alpine van and the Ice-y.

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:33

When I was very young, all the old people (and my dad, a bit) used to call fizzy drinks 'minerals'. And a 'mineral man' used to come round to my nan's house with glass bottles of the stuff. Weird. Makes me feel like I must have grown up in the 1920s or something.

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:33

Oh, that was a cross post AP.

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:34

So it's not just in MY childhood that they were called 'minerals'.

MoChan · 28/09/2011 11:35

A relief. Maybe I grew up in the 70s and 80s after all.

GetOrfMo1Land · 28/09/2011 11:37

Fizzy drinks used to be called minerals in cafes down my way (Devon).

Can understand that if Irn Bru has got iron in it Grin

AgentProvocateur · 28/09/2011 11:37

Yeah, I'm a child of the 70s too. I don't think I actually heard anyone call them minerals - I just remember seeing it written down.

aldiwhore · 28/09/2011 11:40

I just say diet coke or fat coke. Not because there's fat in coke, but being on a diet its a no-no really (or a rare hangover treat) and its the opposite of diet coke!

PeneloPeePitstop I used to smoke marlborough red, still do if out with one particular friend... they're my full fat fags. My usual brand is now rollies with menthol filters - I don't have a pet name for them. My usual 'going out' brand is Mayfair Smooth, or skinny chav fags.

GetOrfMo1Land · 28/09/2011 11:47

Skinny chav fags Grin

I have given up smoking now (that will last until I go out and get pissed, that normally sees me falling off the wagon) but used to smoke diet fags (B&H silvers). If I ended up 'borrowing' a fag from a friend and it was full strength I used to get the full on nicotine rushes.

jaggythistle · 28/09/2011 11:59

Bonny I am actually married to a Weegie but he's never mentioned ginger Hmm will have to question him later....

I am from the Highlands but never had any Moray Cup, I feel I may have missed out.

Ah it's from ower Banff way...too far East for me, I was nearer the 'Capital of the Highlands' myself.

Enough with the Teuchter stuff BTW, folk in the Central Belt class you as one if you're from anywhere north of Dundee! Technically it means someone fomr the countryside/out in the sticks, not the north of Scotland does it not?

OneTrickMummy · 28/09/2011 12:01

It's a joke.
OP - you may hear people say of Kilos 'what's that in old money' - that's a joke too.

LetThereBeRock · 28/09/2011 12:08

It was originally a term used by lowlanders to describe people from the Highlands.