And it's not me, it's the international community
Edit: I thought "sprite" meant "Sprite(R)" the drain opener
Edit 2: Nope there are br*ts in the comments saying Sprite(R) is a lemonade
Raging because we haven't completely succumb to american cultural hegemony is reactionary bullshit. We are different country with a differnt language to you.
Sprite instead of actual lemonade is not excusable by "different language." Do better, self-crit, read some lemonade making theory, apologize to those harmed by your caviler attitude towards soft drinks, and hold yourself accountable in the future.
I find the idea of a Brit complaining about being 'culturally' colonized immensely hilarious
Critical support for the English and their struggle against Amerikkkan imperialism
I mean you're literally calling lemonade sprite, you've out-American'd us.
Ah wait apparently sprite didn't mean Sprite(R) the sugary garbage but a different drink. So yeah I agree
Sprite is a Lemonade.
Bruh Sprite(R) taste nothing like water+lemon+bit of sugar which is what I and dingdongyouarewrong understand as lemonade.
So you think Sprite(R) was invented previous to some brit mixing lemon and water and thinking "uh how should I call this?" ?
No, Sprite tastes like water+lemon+a lot of sugar and some bubbles, very different.
Don't know what lemons you eat or what Sprite they sell to you but I really can't find the lemon taste in it,
Nothing. We don't have word for it. It's not something we encounter enough to need a word for.
“Oi you ave a loisence fer that pub” the constable shouts while beating the child with his nightstick
Mostly lemon juice? What in the goddamn?
But yeah, lemonade is different in the UK. Idk, maybe like lemon cordial or something. I don't think we have the equivalent.
I'm sure you could get it here.
Idk, kinda sounds a bit like cordial or squash.
But yeah, lemonade is the fizzy lemon-flavoured soft drink in Australia and the UK, idk about other places.
Idk how that happened but I'm sure it's a fascinating story.
Edit - Apparently parts of Asia it's the US variant too.
i'll defend "football" because it makes more sense and you guys actually care about the sport. but what is so complicated about lemon and sugar that it can only be manufactured by the coca cola company?
Visiting the US and being furious when I ask for chips and get a bag of crisps.
I demand everything be the exact same everywhere.
Asking "is this lemonade, but not Sprite" in England will get you a carbonated lemon drink.
It might not have even been Sprite. Could have been Schweppes or something similar.
There are other brands similar to sprite that are also called lemonade
To be fair the server had a point, that won't have been sprite, it will have been schweppes - which is a completely different fizzy lemon drink. The more you know :centrist:
i thought schweppes was seltzer? or possibly ginger ale? idk
I always have to ask when I'm in Europe if the water is normal or if it's that fizzy bubbly bullshit
"Can I get some still water" sounds like you want to make some witchcraft shit with it, or contract some parasite idk it sounds weird.
I know that now but I will always hold resentment in my heart
Its good that something bad happened to you because you are American
In Finnish the colloquial word for soda is derived from the word for lemonade, so not only is Sprite lemonade but so are Coke and Mountain Dew
Huh, weird. In spanish you can ask for a "lemon tea" and they will bring you lemonade at 70 °C, and you might want to say "this ain't tea, this is hot lemonade" but the waiter would reply "yeah you dumbfuck, keep practicing your spanish vocabulary and quit bitching about something this insignificant like OP in this post"
Thinking about it some more, I think all soft drinks used to be just called "lemonade", like if you read the label on a bottle of say, pear soda it'd say päärynälimonadi before listing the ingredients. I think these days most companies have switched over to using the bullshit marketing term virvoitusjuoma "lit. refreshment drink" instead. Probably should just call it fizzy sugar water to be accurate. In colloquial usage, limu still lives on as a catch-all term for all soda though
Speaking of "actual" lemonade, I think the average Finnish person's conception of the drink would be similar to the American version
In Arg we call fizzy water "soda", and all sugary fizzy drinks "gaseosa" (literally "gaseous"/"fizzy"), but 10 years ago those CocaCola bastards invented "aguas saborizadas" ("flavored water") that is the same sugary liquid but without the gas so people were marketed to believe it was healthier despite being equally sugary you fucking idiot can't you see how sticky it is? Can't you see all the flies atracted to it? I'm not even asking you to read the fucking label of what you put inside your guts
Love paying for flat coke :visible-disgust: You have to love capitalist innovation
Why would that not just be apple juice, like every other fruit juice? I'll give you guys the lemonade one but calling apple juice cider is weird.
It's also frequently mulled and drank warm during the fall.
It tastes at least as much like a bunch of spices as it does like apples.
All ciders I've had here (Appalachia) are alcoholic. There's a clear distinction between alcoholic and non-alcoholic ciders at the stores and most non-alcoholic ones have mulled recipes that call for rum and spices in them. Mainly because the state still controls liquor here and stores can't sell mulled cider with hard liquor in it (fermented ciders are okay though).
The kid drink is called apple juice or just juice. Sometimes people call it cider when it's a holiday and it's in a punchbowl, but there's always the kids bowl and the adults bowl that's full of booze.
I live somewhere in the Midwest, and my biggest experience with cider for sure is the annual harvest festival my small city throws. There's normally a booth selling warm, non-alcoholic, spiced cider by the cup for charity.
Yeah, here all the protestants here do that for church events. Everyone still spikes it though and would not be confused that you said cider has booze in it.
I'm pretty sure cider is fresh pressed apples, and apple juice is filtered cider.
Pretty sure it's because of the prohibition. Apple farms were used mostly for hard cider pre-prohibition, so to compete they started making non-alcoholic cider. Prohibition ended and the term stayed.
i think it's allowed to be sold as cider if there's nothing added, whereas apple "juice" can and almost certainly does have sugar added. pretty much everything in the US sold as "juice" is like made from extracted concentrates, artificial flavoring and some cheaper, industrial sweetener like HFCS or whatever. i bet the cost of producing cider is like 10x what the cost of producing "juice" is in the US due to subsidies, price supports, and trade imbalances with sugar producing countries.
In the US, if you get apple juice, you're getting some shit that's been filtered and pasteurized all to hell. The cider is more, idk, natural?
If you really want to be confused, next time cider season comes around compare the ingredients of apple juice and cider (they're the same). Maybe different proportions?
i grew up in cider country and i was so upset when i moved abroad and could never find it.
I would ask and literally show pictures to people and they would just tell me to get alcoholic cider...
Me too! I tried to explain hot spiced cider and a very nice friend actually made some for me as a surprise but used what I'd call apple juice and it was such a sad replacement for what I was craving, but it was such a kind gesture that I was just like, "oh yummy yummy, just what I was missing!"
that's really sweet. those little gestures are so nice, even if they're so horribly wrong LOL
lol I know! It was so kind but at the same time kind of made me miss home more? Such a mix of good and bad feelings! But the kindness is the most important part, when you get right down to it.
Learning French in school allowed me to understand this post (limonade means Sprite)
Question for Br*ts and aus*es:
What do you get when you order lemonade with your Thai food? Sprite with basil in it?
In the US, lemonade isn't fizzy. It's just lemon, water, and sugar.
Yeah, this is what I think of when I hear "lemonade" too- a fairly simple and unprocessed drink you can easily make at home
Wow, hold on, that's so revolutionary. Imma call it lemonjuiceade so we don't confuse it with our much beloved cornsyrupwith1%syntheticlemonflavorade
Only yanks would pour nasty bitter juice into water and then add sugar to it to make it taste less bitter.
My little nieces from my small town were all exited for going to fucking Starbucks cuz they are massive snobs as most people here and they asked each some 1 liter shit "ice cream mocca ultra luxe dulce de leche coffee" and FUCKING HELL THAT SHIT WAS DISGUSTING, after 2 minutes they were both nauseated from so much sugar and my cheap fat ass had to finish both drinks cuz those garbages were really expensive.
After that I punished them making them drink ristrettos, I love that horrendous tar.
actual ice cream + coffee is a nice treat, but starbucks doesnt do that and their regular coffee is shiiiiiiiit. they serve a simulacrum of a decent artery-clogger
Hey, I can make it in my home and don't have to buy it from the shop. A bag of lemons is like $8 and makes a gallon or so of lemonade
It's sour not bitter and it's the drink of the Gods. Holy shit you've never had lemonade that sucks
eh, not really a fan of dumping a shitload of sugar in things tbh
thanks though
Yanks make fun of British cooking, and then drink barely-sugared lemon water…
I see nothing wrong with it. British 'cooking' is trash and lemon water is great.
I'm crying for all the people in the world that think lemonade is sprite and not the easy to make from scratch delicious tangy sweetness that is lemonade.
Best part of it is that you can sweeten to taste and most lemonade still has less sugar than soda. Most of the flavor comes from the fresh lemon juice
I feel like I'm not American enough to understand this. What's the big deal? Sprite is lemonade isn't it?
No HFCS in British versions:
Carbonated Water, Sugar, Citric Acid, Sweeteners (Acesulfame K, Aspartame), Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Natural Lemon and Lime Flavourings
Water. Sugar. Lemon. It has some Lime I didn't know about, that's all. Still kinda a lemonade?
I have never heard of lemonade purists before this day and it's supremely funny to me. I'm going to go drink a 7up now.
They're two very different drinks. Home made non sprite lemonade, as in lemon juice from fresh lemons water and some sugar (I barely use any) tastes complexly different. I would suggest giving it a try if you can, it's damn good.
Notice the artificial sweeteners added in response to the sugar tax
I do but that's not HFCS, it gets labelled as fructose-glucose syrup here. We barely use HFCS in anything at all.
I can taste HFCS in your drinks, it tastes metallic and bad.
lemonade is whatever people are referring to when they say lemonade
Isn't the logo specifically yellow and green to represent the lemon lime nature of the drink? Or are all British drinks confusingly labeled
Mate you're not bringing irn-bru into this that's how wars get started. Nobody fucks with our irn-bru, nectar of the gods.
It's delicious, but what the fuck are these names
"Oi bruv, imma head down to the shop and grabba couple cans of Tizer and Ribben, you want a Vimto?"
Half of these drinks were originally sweets that have been around for hundreds of years. Vimto was a lolly. Irn-bru was a hard sweet.
When you think about it you notice that the sweet drinks industry walks alongside the old style of sweety tuck shops a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if cola didn't exist as a drink first and was in fact stolen from some "cola" sweet and trademarked as a drink.
Makes sense, since the only drinks being sold 100 years ago could only be alcoholic ones.
