• rumschlumpel@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Nevermind the name, how the hell is fruit juice with flat water “the best drink in the world”? Learn how to Schorle you goddamn barbarians.

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    So for the folks that call lemon-lime soda “lemonade” (instead of the non-carbonated drink consisting of water, sugar, and lemon juice), is the idiom “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” just not a thing? Or is it an idiom that is in use but it just doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense?

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      11 months ago

      Can’t speak of Australia, but only like 10% of Europeans speak English as their native language. So yes, that idiom is just not a thing in most places.

      I thought it’s just an English saying to turn something sour into a drink (like sprite, but home made), but only figuratively speaking. Of course the concept of flavored water is known, and at family functions we also usually have lemon water (water with a cut up lemon inside), but without any sugar I think. I don’t particularly like it and prefer water or juice.

      How much sugar is usually added in the US when you make lemonade? The saying gets a whole new dimension if the actual process instead means “if life gives you something sour, source twice the amount of something sweet from somewhere and you’ll be fine” - no shit, if I have tons of sweet things in my life a bit of sourness is indeed bearable.

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    11 months ago

    Of course Sprite is lemonade. Lemon lemonade, in contrast to orange lemonade like Fanta.

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    11 months ago

    There are only 2 sweet fizzy drinks in Europe. Coke (obvious) and lemonade (everything else that isn’t coke). Easy, simple. We do have lemonade flavors. Orange, lemon (citron), etc lemonade. But they’re all lemonade.

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    11 months ago

    If lemonade tastes the same to you as sprite, you need to go to the doctor or maybe the hospital because something is very wrong

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      11 months ago

      It’s more that they’re straight up called the same thing in those areas for some strange reason.

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        11 months ago

        Nonono

        Soda/Pop is called lemonade (or limonade or variations).

        Lemonade (US) aka citrus water is not necessarily called lemonade.

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          11 months ago

          Most of the time, it’s just not a thing at all. As someone who grew up drinking sparkling water, the idea of a cold, lemon-based drink made with still water is utterly foreign to me.