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I just learned that lemonade in the US isn't carbonated?????
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We have Ribena here in Canada. I like it, but it's different.
The powdered drinks are good, they are just as bad a pop. Basically the same amount of sugar, they just taste different.
Mmm not true. Americans know the distinction between apple cider and juice. Odds are if you ask for a cider in a restaurant here you're more likely to get hard cider.
Oh Canadian haha, yeah sorry assumed you were American. Yeah Americans mostly haven't had blackcurrants due to a long, long, long ban on blackcurrants to protect trees or something which is why I said they should try some of it if they see some.
But yeah I have the powdered stuff in my cupboard from America, I rarely if ever use it as it's just not as good as squash to me here but it will do in a pinch.
every three months some British person goes viral tweeting something like "i just learned that Americans don't serve their french fries ice cold????" with dozens of horrified replies going like "wait, so they eat them warm and damp? what the fuck?" "yeah and they cook them in oil instead of something normal like goose piss, which explains why they're all so unhealthy"
As it's probably been said, we have non-carbonated and carbonated variants here, but the non-carbonated variant is the one that is what is considered standard "lemonade."
I love the carbonated version though, but b is hard to find. X.x
I love the carbonated version though, but b is hard to find. X.x
Where I live we do a half sprite half lemonade that's pretty good, but I wouldn't want a lemonade carbonated regularly. In strawberry lemonade do you put in fresh cut strawberries? Thats what I like.
Is Gatorade carbonated in Europe? How many ades can they ruin with stinky gas?
I do like "French" lemonade as it's often called here, and it's pretty much available at most grocery stores these days. Nothing beats a lemon shakeup at the fair while waiting to go see Smash Mouth or some other vaguely familiar shit band.
I do like "French" lemonade as it's often called here, and it's pretty much available at most grocery stores these days. Nothing beats a lemon shakeup at the fair while waiting to go see Smash Mouth or some other vaguely familiar shit band.
Ha, yeah, that was a fun thing to discover as an American moving to England as a kid.
Honestly, they're just two totally different things. If you imagine American lemonade being carbonated, that's weird. If you imagine British lemonade being flat, that's also weird. Apples and oranges. And lemons.
Honestly, they're just two totally different things. If you imagine American lemonade being carbonated, that's weird. If you imagine British lemonade being flat, that's also weird. Apples and oranges. And lemons.
We have both here in Canada. Normal lemonade that most fruit drink companies make (ex: Minute Maid) that's definitely the more popular of the two.
President's Choice (a Canadian brand) makes the carbonated version in 12 pack of cans (and yes it's a different taste than Sprite or Fresca as some in this thread have mentioned). No clue if there are other brands as well, that's the only one I've seen and tried.
President's Choice (a Canadian brand) makes the carbonated version in 12 pack of cans (and yes it's a different taste than Sprite or Fresca as some in this thread have mentioned). No clue if there are other brands as well, that's the only one I've seen and tried.
I like their blood orange one but I much prefer lemonade uncarbonated.
Yeah, the one lunarworks posted above.
We can easily access carbonated lemonade in US even if it isn't common just like almost any other type of food/drink
"Cider" is used both for the alcoholic drink as well as a certain type of non-alcoholic apple juice that tends to be distinctly all-natural vs. the artificial major brands. "Hard" cider specifies the alcoholic version though in my experience it's more that the difference is determined implicitly. Like, you're not gonna order hard cider at a supermarket and you're not going to order not-hard cider at a restaurant.
Sanpellegrino. It used to be found mainly at pizza joints, but in the last several years it's become available pretty much everywhere. Most supermarkets carry it, and most good convenience stores too.
Sprite isn't carbonated lemonade though.
One is soda, the other is juice.
Country time and other powder-based lemonades are shit. I'd rather have sparkling lemonade than those.
Lemonade made from real lemon juice (preferably fresh squeezed) is 1000% better than either. Not too sweet, just a little tart, and endlessly refreshing.
Lemonade made from real lemon juice (preferably fresh squeezed) is 1000% better than either. Not too sweet, just a little tart, and endlessly refreshing.
you can blame prohibition on that one
after alcohol was banned, the cider makers had to find some way to keep selling the stuff
it wasn't till later that there was demand for alcoholic cider again, so they had to differentiate cider and hard cider.
C.C. Lemon. You can find it at asian food grocers.
Stuffs great. Got a buddy whose obsessed with it in WV so anytime I spot some I buybit to bring him next time I visit each year.
and it always turns out that literally nobody outside of the UK eats whatever the hell they're talking about and they continue to act like 'everybody eats this except for americans'
"Craft" cider has kinda blown up here so at least there's less of a chance of that in some major cities lol
this looks like a drink that a wealthy, well-established, quite dapper 45 year old man would pull out of his cabinet in the middle of him lecturing you about the renaissance
How does one go about getting the old version?Important to note they changed their receipe a few years back so you have to be diligent.
The new cans look like these:
If you're wondering about the text the inventor of Lemon Retreat Pete Hinkle was also a linguistic and character (as in letters) deconstructionist, so he put it in his will that all cans of Lemon Retreat have a vaguely deconstructed presentation, you can identify the text if you know it but it's always just a bit off. Brilliant man really. He flipped his name of course for the rhyming scheme
Now anyway these you can probably find in the Eastern US and Canada, not every store but some.
But fot the best best best experience look for this can:
It's the old receipe.
You'll notice no branding. This is why I mentioned Bodegas in NY and Vibes
Back story on this can, a few years some Hinkleheads (our fan club) were upset by the new receipe, introduced just after Hinkle Pete passed on. The new recipe is fineish but the company decided to go with cheaper more artificial ingredients that just rob Lemon Retreat of its integrity, good in a pinch, but just nowhere near the same.
Anyway, these NY based Hinkleheads actually decided recreate and self distribute the old receipe. It's pretty ingenious really they got the receipe from the United States Copyright Office by claiming they needed it to defend against the HinklePeteCo's infringement claims against their attempts at home brewing, home brewing they hadn't even started yet.
So they got it and made some backdoor, back alley deal with some really cool local bodegas to stock the cans with the generic unbranded label and just basically rely on the Hinklehead Network of fans to drive sales. It's worked out pretty well tbh.
So yeah that's why I said go to Bodegas it's the only way to experience a true Lemon Retreat.
It's Trader Joe's lol.
But yes putting the word "sparkling" in the name of any drink makes it seem fancier than it is.
I'm from the UK and I've never seen a store or a person say that lemonade is carbonated soda. Its always been Lemons + Water + Sugar whenever I order a "lemonade drink" from anywhere.
Even at home I make it that way.
Even at home I make it that way.
That's correct.
I mean do people over there make it at home and complain it's not carbonated? lol
Check your local Bodegas in NYC and look for a lemon sticker on the window.
Then look for the can inside
The Hinkleheads NY Chapter is still very DYI so supply can't be guaranteed
Most childred use Country Time style powdered shit, which is probably worse than the British version and definitely worse than real lemonade. To be fair, making real lemonade is a lot more involved than just mixing the sugar and juice together.
Lemonade is carbonated outside of the US?
Hahahahaha.
They don't use actual lemons they use a mix.
Hahahahaha.
They don't use actual lemons they use a mix.
As a chef I find this really hilarious, because it's 100% true.