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
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
deleted by creator
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.
deleted by creator
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.
If it's clear and yella' you got juice there, fella!
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?
deleted by creator
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?
deleted by creator
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...
deleted by creator
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.
We call that cloudy apple juice.
deleted by creator
Cider rules and it's apple time rn, I should get some.
Appleade