Full fat coke

[RedCowboyBoots]

Argh! It's not full fat- there's no fat in it! It's full SUGAR!

ARRRRRRGGGGGGH!!!!!!!

Takes a deep breath

...

I feel better now.

Feel free to pile on if you've anything similar to get off your chest.

'tis a joke, albeit one that has worn thin (

Can anyone explain to me the proper use of literally?

Gold top coke....?

Literally means it actually happened. Like, if you say he ate literally 10 bags of crisps, it means he actually ate 10 bags of crisps. If you say that your head literally exploded, you mean your head actually exploded. Which probably didn’t really happen.

'Literally' means something really happened, as opposed to the phrase in question being used as a figure of speech or exaggeration.

So, 'I literally fell over laughing' would mean you physically fell to the ground while laughing - as an alternative to 'I fell over laughing' which most people would take to mean you simply laughed a lot, rather than you actually fell down.

I'm fat and I drink Diet Coke

HTH

I see thank you

Thiswayorthatway

Sugar makes you fat. So YABU

1. This is not AIBU.
2. The phrase under discussion is 'full fat coke', not 'fat coke'. As such, your argument makes little sense, unless you are suggesting that sugar makes you 'full fat'?
3. Sugar does not make you fat. Excessive sugar consumption will result in energy being stored in fat cells which, if not used up and frequently added to, could cause a build up of fat, but sugar itself is simply readily available carbohydrate.
4. People have fat. No one is fat.

Welcome to pedants' corner.

Omg I was totally thinking about this today! I moved to London from the US and kept telling people "you mean full sugar, right?" Haha there's no fat in it !

I hate it being called coke never mind full fat coke .

I work in childcare. The young girls I work with always tell the kids to 'lay down' at nap time. I knew it was wrong but then English is not my first language. So I thought maybe I got it wrong. It turns out I'm not. 😊

The dictionary definition of literally changed a few years back and no longer only means, well, literally.

I think that’s why people say it, as a joke, because it’s not? There’s a little nuance to things sometimes.

I hate it being called coke never mind full fat coke

I tip my hat to you.

If the definition of literally has changed, there's no longer any point to the word. An example of language regressing, not evolving.

It hasn’t changed, the primary definition is the same.

Eight years ago in 2011, the the OED added an informal definition of the word which recognised the evolution of language/usage.

“The dictionary states that literally means “in a literal way or sense”. But it now adds that, informally, the word can be “used for emphasis rather than being actually true” such as “we were literally killing ourselves laughing”.

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED-includes-erroneous-use-of-literally.html

How do you feel about "unleaded" for caffeine-free?

@FlatCheese I'm getting triggered ! LOL

It's a joke. Derived from "full fat milk" conflated with fattening properties.

Is language not allowed to be fun anymore?

It's a joke. Derived from "full fat milk" conflated with fattening properties.

Maybe it was intended to be, once upon a time. Any humour has long since dwindled away into nonexistence through repetition. Not my definition of fun, but if you're chortling whenever you hear it then more power to you.

**Sugar makes you fat. So YABU

1. This is not AIBU.
2. The phrase under discussion is 'full fat coke', not 'fat coke'. As such, your argument makes little sense, unless you are suggesting that sugar makes you 'full fat'?
3. Sugar does not make you fat. Excessive sugar consumption will result in energy being stored in fat cells which, if not used up and frequently added to, could cause a build up of fat, but sugar itself is simply readily available carbohydrate.
4. People have fat. No one is fat.

Welcome to pedants' corner. grin

Oh @redcowboyboots if pedants are all like you then I've found my place.

We say "full fat coffee" in our house, for caffeinated coffee.

"Do you want decaf or full fat?"

Also my most pedantic friend detests Pepsi and won't drink anything with artificial sweetener in it, so when she asks at a bar for a Coca-Cola and the barman says "Is Pepsi OK?" she replies "is monopoly money OK?"

Well yes, to be fair, the humour has been eroded to a nub through overuse. But the OP's complaint wasn't about that, she was complaining about people not being literal.

I consider myself a grade A pedant, but I do call it full fat Coke.

When DH and I first moved in together (in a rather sketchy part of town, admittedly) we went for a drink at our new local. When I asked for vodka and Coke the barmaid said, without any trace of humour or irony (and a face like a smacked arse), “Diet or full fat?” It’s been full fat Coke in our house ever since.