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.

It may not be a very funny joke, but this is “pedants’ corner” not “comedy arbitrators’ corner”. It dates from a time when diet food was almost always labelled “low fat”.

We call it 'real coke' in my house lol

I very rarely drink fizzy drinks!! water, tea, Prosecco and gin are my poisons!! But a couple of times a year maybe after I have done a big all day hill walk or a very long bike ride when we get to the bar I just want a full fat full of sugar coke has to come from a can or a bottle with ice and a slice of lemon it really does hit the spot!!

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?"

Very sharp. My sister is allergic to sweetners- she'll love this.

@MarthaDunstable

this is “pedants’ corner” not “comedy arbitrators’ corner

pedant
/ˈpɛd(ə)nt/
noun
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
synonyms: dogmatist, purist, literalist, formalist, doctrinaire

I think a dislike of this 'joke' is fully in keeping with the spirit of pedantry.

Thanks @RedCowboyBoots for your points 3 and 4; you saved me the bother!

I've spent many a jolly session in my career patiently explaining that sugar is 100% carbohydrate. Even then I've been met with blank looks and 'but it makes you fat so it must contain fat' from otherwise intelligent young people. Point 3 then follows.

The full fat coke thing doesn't bother me too much as I hope it's mildly ironic, but people do believe the strangest things about food.

Slight sidebar - When did it become standard practice to have to specify ‘full fat’ when requesting a coke?
Normally the original product keeps the simple title and any derivatives have a descriptor e.g. Diet Coke, Cherry Coke. Is it because the diet version became more popular than the original in bars/restaurants?
I noticed it creeping in a few years ago, wait staff would take my order and query if I wanted diet. It confuses me and I always reply - no, normal Coke! Surely if you wanted the diet version you’d specify that when ordering?

I am a massive pedant but full fat coke is definitely nuanced so doesn't bother me at all.

Love the PPs though -lay/lie is a particular irritation as I do pronounce harass and harassment the proper English way.

Nice to find my crowd!

On another issue, isn't it always the fattest people who drink Diet Coke? And the slimmer ones who drink normal Coke?

I noticed this a few years ago and while obviously being a generalisation, I think it's mostly true.

I don't drink any fizzy drinks as o don't think they're good for you but a proper Coke on a hot day with ice and lemonade when you've done some sort of exercise as a PP described is ABSOLUTELY delicious.

@Flamingo84

Very true. We shouldn't need to specify at all, given that it's the original product.

Legomadx2

Not always. I'm not overweight and I drink diet sodas.

However I try not to do so too often. They mess up your metabolism.

I have been drawn back to this thread because yesterday I started reading a book - not great literature, but a well published modern author - that is really making me grind my teeth.

Every time someone is 'sat' somewhere, or lay is used incorrectly I just want to throw the book down and stop reading.

I'm just recovering from a particularly nasty cold on top of another virus and I need something light to read so I'm sticking it out as I'm quite enjoy the book otherwise.

The author is obliviously well educated going by her vocabulary so why these basic errors in her written English?

Why are these mistakes not picked up at the editing stage? Surely, given the long list of people she thanks in her acknowledgements, someone must be responsible for making sure these things are ironed out before publication?

It would make my reading experience so much pleasanter if they were.

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

Us too. And when I was pregnant we had full fat beer on offer as opposed to alcohol free.

I call it fat coke.

I know it's the wrong terminology but it's just easier than full sugar coke.