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Is Sprite considered “lemonade” in the UK?
- Thread starter Dalek
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Does it at least require the presence of lemons, similar citrus or a reasonably lemon-like artificial flavoring?
Burger is a much better way to describe things in a bun than just sandwich.
Imagine living in a world where we can instantly differentiate between these things:
Lemon or lemon flavouring.
Colloquially "lemonade" generally refers to the clear lemon-flavoured soda while "cloudy lemonade" refers to the stuff made with lemons.
But that does make it a burger.
It doesn't suddenly become a sandwich because you put chicken in it.
Edit: the non-carbonated lemonade does exist in Australia, but only some small companies offer them. It's good stuff.
Because the closest common thing we have in Australia is carbonated it's very confusing as a kid learning what American lemonade is
I always figured the best way to get American-style lemonade here was to buy some lemon squash and let it go flat.
It makes way more sense to name a food based on its overall structure than on a single ingredient. Imagine the chaos society would tumble into if we extended this nonsensical "change one ingredient, entirely new type of food" thinking across other foods.
why can't these countries be less weird and more like the country that made donald trump its president
Isn't this the same everywhere? I've had chicken burgers in a lot of countries.
Yes sprite is considered a kind of lemonade.
I think the 'ade' implies it's a carbonated drink. We also have cherryade and limeade etc. they are all fizzy drinks.
You can also buy the non-carbonated, cloudy lemonade which is what lemonade is known to be in America, though it's usually more expensive.
I think the 'ade' implies it's a carbonated drink. We also have cherryade and limeade etc. they are all fizzy drinks.
You can also buy the non-carbonated, cloudy lemonade which is what lemonade is known to be in America, though it's usually more expensive.
I like this one
Oh hey, I'd forgotten about these! The Charlie's drinks are all pretty great.
This thread is blowing my fucking mind. Sprite is not a lemonade on any level.
As a southerner I'm having an existential crisis here.
As a southerner I'm having an existential crisis here.
That would be like saying anything put in a hot dog bun becomes a hot dog. "Hamburger" referred to a ground meat patty long before hamburger buns were a thing.
Different places use different names for stuff. Time to get over it.
And we used to call first-person shooters "Doom clones". Sometimes you just find a better way to do things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hey, if you put sliced, fried potatoes in a hamburger bun is it a chip butty or a chip burger?
Ah, well see I don't think we really use "butty" in Australia; not in my area anyway.
So it'd be a chip burger for me.
Does US not have cherryade, limeade, orangeade etc?
You don't squeeze cherrys into flat, cold water do you?
Also am I right to understand US doesn't have concentrated juice drinks and only use powder like kool-aid?
You don't squeeze cherrys into flat, cold water do you?
Also am I right to understand US doesn't have concentrated juice drinks and only use powder like kool-aid?
Fascinating.
We have limeade and orange juice. Cherries aren't really thought of as fruit to extract large quantities of juice from, but it may be used to color and add flavor to a lemonade. Artificially flavored drinks are referred to as "[insert fruit] drink", and we do have them in concentrated liquid form. The "-ade" suffix doesn't seem to be regulated, so products that don't contain fruit juice like Gatorade and Country Time Lemonade exist.
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Are your limeade and orangeades fizzy though?
Cherryade isn't lemonade with added cherry flavouring, it just cherry flavoured fizzy drink.
Nope. A fizzy fruit flavored drink would be called a soda or pop. So your cherryade, limeade and orangeade would be cherry soda, lime soda and orange soda respectively.
Anyway, this thread makes me feel better that the U.S. has a chain of restaurants called Wienerschnitzel that doesn't sell schnitzels.
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Yes it's considered lemonade here in the U.K.
we also have the more traditional type of lemonade too, along with cloudy lemonade.
we also have the more traditional type of lemonade too, along with cloudy lemonade.
In Australia, 7UP and Sprite would be called "lemonade".
Lift or Solo would be called something like "lemon soft drink", "lemon soda", "lemon squash" or "pub squash".
If you actually squeezed a bunch of lemons and made a drink, we'd call that "old style lemonade".
Lift or Solo would be called something like "lemon soft drink", "lemon soda", "lemon squash" or "pub squash".
If you actually squeezed a bunch of lemons and made a drink, we'd call that "old style lemonade".
Lemonade used to be the default fizzy drink in the UK before Coca Cola really got their marketing and distribution going. Lots of local drinks producers would deliver it in glass bottles from the factory to your door. I'm not sure if it was the easiest flavour to make or the demand was there because you could give it to kids or use it as a mixer with booze.
Americans call it a "hamburger" even though there's clearly a beef patty in it.
its not really lemonade, but I guess it's fairly close to uk lemonade
- uk regular lemonade is sweet, fizzy and the tiniest hint that the bottle might have once seen a lemon
- sprite is basically 7up - similar in that it's soda. But it's more flavoured (but still light)
- the thing you describe in OP doesn't really exist in the uk. Closest would be 'traditional' or 'cloudy' lemonade which is basically what you describe - but fizzy. I don't think we have it flat as a 'thing' here (doesn't mean some individualnplaces don't sell something like that - eg Wagamama have cloudy lemonade that is flat)
- uk regular lemonade is sweet, fizzy and the tiniest hint that the bottle might have once seen a lemon
- sprite is basically 7up - similar in that it's soda. But it's more flavoured (but still light)
- the thing you describe in OP doesn't really exist in the uk. Closest would be 'traditional' or 'cloudy' lemonade which is basically what you describe - but fizzy. I don't think we have it flat as a 'thing' here (doesn't mean some individualnplaces don't sell something like that - eg Wagamama have cloudy lemonade that is flat)
Yup. They're also marketed as that, with few exceptions like Schweppes.
Was going to post this. What we consider 'limonade' here is very broad, but mostly it's Fanta and Tönissteiner lemona.. uh sodas. I'm sure plenty of people here'd consider Sprite lemonade too.
This is what is called Lemonade in Denmark too, at least from my experience. Sprite is just referred to as a soda. Or maybe a lemon/lime soda.
That's barely an issue, it's the fact they call any desert pudding I can't get use to. I've listened to hundreds of hours of Brits talk during podcasts, and it's still an earworm I've yet to overcome.
Lemonade in the UK is predominately clear & carbonated, although you can buy traditional/cloudy lemonade, but this is also usually carbonated. Flat lemon flavoured drinks are sold in some places, but tend to be more premium products.
There is not a widespread tradition of making homemade lemonade.
There is not a widespread tradition of making homemade lemonade.
That's true for me too, but now the idea has been introduced it's making more sense than it should...
I consider Sprite to be a lemonade with lime flavouring. I'm in the UK.
Our meaning of the word lemonade stretches to both the American definition of lemon and water (and boat-loads of sugar) but also can refer to carbonated lemon-flavoured drinks like this:
