The type of drink people order along with extremely fattening food to justify the meal as being 'healthy'
"I would like a Big Mac, large Fries, large chocolate shake, and three chocolate cookies...Oh and a large soda, but make it Diet Soda because I'm trying to watch my weight."
The curious way some peoplewill order a 2000 calorie,grease laden,artery blocking,"obesity-in-a-bag" fast food meals and order a diet soda as if they were really concerned about healthy eating and the soda will magically negate all the fat grams.
I ordered the Maple Bacon Ice Cream Sundae at Denny's along with a diet sodaoffset.
Got some flat diet soda? If it contains phosphoric acid and/or citric acid, don't throw it away, put it in a spray bottle and use it as a cleaner. Do NOT use regular (sugary) soda, or you'll make a super sticky mess!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)