• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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

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      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      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

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          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          It tastes actually worse, the fizzynes hides the excess sugaryness