why call it full fat coco cola ?

[romeolovedjulliet]

why not regular ? i can't stand the stuff but full fat ? sounds like drinking liquid lard [boak]
i know it's an expression and what it means, before i get jumped on but all the same, are there any other names for drinks or foods that make no sense in rl ?

@Sushi123

Is there any need?! 🤷

For coke at all? God no, it's horrible!

For coke at all? God no, it's horrible!

I disagree, it's magic. I don't care if it's a placebo or not, but it works wonder for stomach upset, headaches, migraines, hungover. I survived flu with very young children thank to regular coke!

This thread is irritating me disproportionately.

Look, those people who don't get it... do you not have little family in-jokes and silly expressions or names for things, which don't entirely make sense and are not necessarily actually that funny, but have over time become the default way of jokily referring to a thing? And you all know it's a bit silly and that some people would think "Huh? Why do you call it that?" It's like that, but on a slightly more widespread level. Life would be infinitely more tedious without wordplay.

those people who don't get it...

thank you, we do get it. We don't have to like it. I don't like "naice" or "Primarni" either.

On the other hand, I chose to use vagina, even when the scientific term should be vulva. I stick with "vagina". Some people don't get that

You don't say

Yes, I do say. Because I was responding to someone who clearly didn't realise this, since they said:

I have to admit I didn’t realise it was a joke either (it’s not a very funny one!). I just thought it was something poorly informed people said, wrongly believing Coke contained fat.

It's a turn of phrase derived from how we refer to different types of milk (full fat Vs semi-skimmed). English is full of similar turns of phrase.

It doesn't mean that the person saying it thinks there is fat in coke, or that they are referring to the sugar content making you fat (even if that is true).

So YABU, just get over it.

It is a humorous idiom, that is overused but is now common parlance even though we all know it's "wrong"

Sometimes I ask for "cooking lager"'in the pub, I'm pretty sure they know I don't actually want to cook with it but they know what I mean.

thank you, we do get it

There is ample evidence on this thread that some people don't get it. The whole thread is based around not getting it.

"AIBU to find the expression 'full fat coke' annoying?" Nope - YANBU at all. We all have expressions that annoy us.

"AIBU to not understand why people say full fat coke when coke has no fat in it?" Yup. YABU.

I say red coke

@lazylinguist

This thread is irritating me disproportionately.

Look, those people who don't get it... do you not have little family in-jokes and silly expressions or names for things, which don't entirely make sense and are not necessarily actually that funny, but have over time become the default way of jokily referring to a thing? And you all know it's a bit silly and that some people would think "Huh? Why do you call it that?" It's like that, but on a slightly more widespread level. Life would be infinitely more tedious without wordplay.

Yep. We do all the in jokes.

This isn’t one of them. The people I’ve met who say this sort of thing are generally a bit dim. One woman, about 10 stone bigger than me, told me off for ordering a Coke. “What are you doing?! It’s full of fat that?!” I asked did she mean sugar? “yeah sugar as well!” She was gobsmacked to discover actually there wasn’t fat in coke and spent 15 minutes passing my empty bottle round showing her equally clueless mates that there wasn’t any fat in it. “Why does my slimming world lady call it full fat then?!” Couldn’t be arsed getting into it. You may think you are being oh so witty but some people actually do think it contains fat. But then some people believe the earth is flat and Trump won the US Election too.

It’s not really something to get het up about. Life would be infinitely better without this particularly tedious example of word play (it’s really not worth elevating full fat coke to that status though).

Oh and I call it Diet Coke vs Coke, if clarification is needed I say “Normal Coke, I don’t want the Diet crap”.

ok, then let's rephrase if that helps you

AIBU not to understand why people say full fat coke when it's not remotely amusing and why they think it is humorous in any way.

If you want annoying, nothing beats your order of a "normal coke" being somehow translated as an order for a "diet pepsi".

If I wanted diet, I would have asked for one in the first place, and I don't like pepsi!

Because the sugar lobby is stronger than the fat lobby. It is fashionable to be anti-fat, to think fat is a sin, to avoid fat at all costs. Whereas because of the (behind the scenes) money in the sugar industry, it has been (up to fairly recently) less bad to be against sugar.

The people I’ve met who say this sort of thing are generally a bit dim.

Good for you. Do you administer an IQ test to each person you hear using it?

@PeggyPorschen

If you want annoying, nothing beats your order of a "normal coke" being somehow translated as an order for a "diet pepsi".

If I wanted diet, I would have asked for one in the first place, and I don't like pepsi!

YES! WTF is that about?!

“I’ll have a Coke please”

“Diet?”

“No. Coke. Normal Coke. I can’t have the diet one, it’s got aspartame in it.”

“Got it, I’ve put a Pepsi Max through for you instead!”

No. Wtf?!

We say regular

@Hopoindown31

The people I’ve met who say this sort of thing are generally a bit dim.

Good for you. Do you administer an IQ test to each person you hear using it?

😂

love the fake naivety. Because you have never met someone thick as a plank in real life and notice it. Of course you haven't.

We say regular coke in where I live (virginia, USA)

We say call it cocA-cola here too but most of the time it is just Coke when ordering drinks

We say regular so we don't get bombarded with questions "do you want cherry coke, Diet Coke whatever flavored coke?"

@Hopoindown31

The people I’ve met who say this sort of thing are generally a bit dim.

Good for you. Do you administer an IQ test to each person you hear using it?

Nah the see through leggings with the bright turquoise thong on the school run or telling me they had a lovely rest bite while the kids were at the MILs p, oooohhh and they got a lovely new chester draws from Costcos tends to give it away without any need for formal testing.

We call it fat coke and skinny coke 😂

It's just an expression

A lot of people on MN would hate all the expressions I use! Like PP has said, every time I ask for a ‘Coke’ they always ask “Diet?” which is why I also refer to it as full fat coke in public. At home it’s just Coke because we never buy Diet Coke. I don’t understand why people are so against it

AIBU not to understand why people say full fat coke when it's not remotely amusing and why they think it is humorous in any way.

Still YABU . Like many expressions, it's just passed into many people's normal vocabulary. They probably aren't using it in order to be consciously funny. It's just a common expression they've got into the habit of using. They don't require people to laugh or be amused by it. You are still entitled to be irritated by it, of course.

Because the sugar lobby is stronger than the fat lobby. It is fashionable to be anti-fat.

It used to be fashionable to be anti-fat. I haven't heard anyone tout low-fat diets for ages. If anything is fashionable it's low sugar and low carb. Low fat is very old hat.

I dislike the term too, but as someone who works in retail, I sometimes have to ask which people want because of the sugar tax, and if I ask if they want regular there is often a confusion because they think I have misunderstood what size they want. I tend to ask if they want red Coke or Zero which is understood.