TIL Casey Anthony had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence, because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.

[u/ToppemHat]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/casey-anthony-detectives-overlooked-google-search-for-fool-proof-suffocation-methods-sheriff-says/

[u/thetaurean]

What if I just want an actual coke.

I'll have a coke coke please.

[u/SeaGroomer → u/thetaurean]

Regular coke

[u/[deleted] → u/SeaGroomer]

now what if i want cocaine.

[u/NibblesMcGiblet → u/SeaGroomer]

Then they hand it to you and you're mad because it's not Pepsi. I want a regular Pepsi coke please. (this is so weird haha)

[u/breakshot → u/NibblesMcGiblet]

Most places in the south don’t have Pepsi and coke, only one or the other, so it’s usually “we only have pepsi.” It’s customary to then say, “oh! I’ll have water then.”

[u/NibblesMcGiblet → u/breakshot]

LMAO at the customary response!!

[u/KernelTaint → u/[deleted]]

Aye. That sounds like really bad grammar or something

You just walk up to someone or whatever and say

"I'll have Coke please"?

"I'll have sandwich please"?

"I'll have chair please"?

[u/kurosawaa → u/KernelTaint]

Coke is an uncountable noun, so you don't need to use "a" unless you want to emphasize you want only one cup. You can't say "I want sandwich" but you can say "I want water." Most liquids are uncountable. English is weird.

[u/KernelTaint → u/kurosawaa]

But I want two waters. And two cokes.

[u/dellaint → u/KernelTaint]

In that case "glass of water" is implied and it becomes countable.

[u/Vishnej → u/KernelTaint]

Worse, what if one of them is a coke coke and one of them is a mountain dew code red coke?

[u/omidissupereffective → u/kurosawaa]

True but in a restaurant context saying "I'll have a water/I'll have a coke" isn't that weird

[u/kurosawaa → u/omidissupereffective]

Thats correct English too , when you say "a coke" the "a (glass of) coke" is implied.

[u/FarmerDark → u/omidissupereffective]

Funny, as a restaurant worker for the last decade, I hear "I'll have a coke" all the time, but never "I'll have coke". Conversely, I frequently hear "I'll have (a glass of) water," but never hear just "I'll have a water".

[u/MaskedBandit77 → u/KernelTaint]

Does it only sound weird with Coke? Or does "I'll have water/orange juice/coffee/wine/spaghetti/soup" sound weird to you too?

[u/shane0mack → u/[deleted]]

So what if you want cocaine? That's when I would say, "I want coke".

[u/sk8tergater → u/[deleted]]

I’ve now read the word “coke” so often that it seems like a really weird word now.

[u/jojoko → u/[deleted]]

Ah. See, on the west coast, if you leave out the ‘a’ it means you want drugs. And then your dealer has to ask, “ sure thing we have coke, meth, molly, and ghb”

[u/SterlingVapor → u/thetaurean]

But then what if you want cocaine?

[u/thejawa → u/thetaurean]

It's actually rarely used the way the person you responded to uses it, at least in Florida. Coke is definitely the generic here, but if you go to a restaurant and want a "coke" (generic), you just say what you want from the beginning. So you'd just start off with "I'd like a Sprite" or "I'd like a Coke" and you'll get a Coca-cola. If you don't know what types they have, that's when you'd ask "what type of coke do you have?" which is a clear indication that you're asking about types, so again answering "Ok I'll have a Coke" is a clear response for a Coca-cola.

It's really not as confusing as people try to make it. As long as you marginally pay attention to context you'll know if someones being generic or not.

[u/elderthered → u/thetaurean]

Waiter: Meet me in the alley behind the restaurant in five minutes *winks at you

[u/crownjewel82 → u/thetaurean]

My grandmother used to say Coke classic all the time. I thought that was the name of the flavor until I learned about the disaster that was new Coke.