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Is Sprite considered “lemonade” in the UK?
- Thread starter Dalek
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As a southerner, you should be used to nonsense of this caliber, given the number of people who think you make sweet tea by serving you regular unsweetened tea and throwing some sugar packets at you.
Lemonade is a catch all term for all lemon and lime carbonated drinks. so yes Sprite and 7up are both lemonade.
I hate cloudy lemonade. Long live our lemonade!
I hate cloudy lemonade. Long live our lemonade!
How are there still people in here thinking the UK doesn't have regular lemonade hahaha. It's that the word is more broad here, not that we don't have what you call lemonade
Please don't make any bs claims, it's a dish that has been around in Europe for ages.
The secret is the ratio:
6oz butter
5oz demerara sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp ginger
8 oz oats
5oz demerara sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 tsp ginger
8 oz oats
Big difference to what you'd typically call hot dogs (frankfurters) and the sausages you'd use for pigs in blankets.
The food name "pigs in a blanket" was literally first printed by American brand Betty Crocker and it referred to their recipe for pastry wrapped hot dogs. Has nothing to do with whether bacon or pastry wrapped hot dogs existed before that - the name comes from that cookbook recipe for pastry wrapped hot dogs. The UK literally snatched a name created for pastry wrapped hot dogs and used it for something different and thinks that's correct.
And the US 'literally snatched' a recipe that had been around in Europe for a long time and called it something different and thinks that's correct
it should be filed under brand issues and America should just sue Britain for infringement of copyright or something, sounds like Betty Crocker should "lawyer up" as you say
What were pastry wrapped hot dogs called before in the UK and USA respectively? Sausage rolls are not the same thing here
I don't understand the question.
I'm just pointing out that the US didn't invent pastry wrapped sausages, which existed in a variety of forms in a number of different countries, so getting all indignant about coming up with a name which may been used differently elsewhere just seems silly.
Just as stupid as when English people get all upset when they hear Americans talk about 'soccer'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade#History
Lemonade existed before carbonated water, but at least you managed to type out a lot of words. As an American, allow me to spend several minutes clapping for your effort, if not your results.
A lot of upsetting things in this thread, but this is the worst. It doesn't work! I don't know how so many people don't understand that this doesn't work.
Betty Crocker published the name - but the book you're referring to literally contains testimonials about the recipe that predate the book - which means it may have been (and probably was) extant as a folk or colloquial term before the book and used rather than invented. It may also have applied to different recipes, since recipe books tend to hone in and adapt a recipe to encompass available ingredients and methods, rather than repeat it verbatim.
Further, there are dozens of variations of the dish going back to at least the 17th century, so "UK snatching a name to use it for something different" is not much of an accusation. people repurpose terminology all the time - and since Pigs in a Blanket is a euphemism that literally means "pork in bread" then Betty Crocker can't claim invention, ownership or definition of it.
Sprite = Lemonade in UK? Yes and no.
If you order a Sprite, they'll bring a sprite - or offer to substitute a 7Up or whatever they've got that's close. If you order say a Vodka and Lemonade in a working class pub, they'll happily put Sprite in it because it tastes ballpark like Lemonade as we brits understand it.
Fact is that Globe made the best Lemonade before they were lost to the sands of time. Barr's a close second.
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Referred to Iced Tea, sugar doesn't dissolve in (or technically dissolves slowly in) cold liquid. But people will still serve you unsweet iced tea with a sugar packet or two as if that will help, when all it does is sink to the bottom of the drink.
This was posted yesterday, and when I posted it, there WERE people who described their only exposure to "lemonade" being the fizzy flavored drink variety. I acknowledge that lemonade does exist in its traditional form in places in the UK, but it sounds like it isn't something that is commonly enjoyed like in the US.
Sprite tastes nothing like lemonade and because of this on behalf of the United States of America I hereby declare war on all nations or peoples that consider sprite to be a lemonade.
In parts of UK, this is a cheesecake, name due to the icing looking like grated cheese. Other parts call it London cheesecake.
dude what universe are we from this one is fucked up real bad
Sweet tea is a drink that's popular in the American South that consists of sugar water that's been waved in the direction of China. It is served over ice with an optional shot of insulin.
British, have lived in London and Southampton.
Sprite has always been known as lemonade in my life. Yes, it has a bit of lime, but there's barely a difference.
Cloudy lemonade is king though.
Never ever seen one of those 'London cheesecakes' though. WTF is that?
Sprite has always been known as lemonade in my life. Yes, it has a bit of lime, but there's barely a difference.
Cloudy lemonade is king though.
Never ever seen one of those 'London cheesecakes' though. WTF is that?
They're delicious. Puft pastry with a layer of jam, icing on top with sprinkled sliced coconut in the icing.
You probably won't find them unless you go to a bakery, one with old roots at that. Supermarkets unlikely to ever make them.