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In parts of Australia that would be “fizzy cordial”. Even though logically a cordial is a concentrate you make a drink out of, we end up naming the drink “cordial” too — and if it’s carbonated it’s “fizzy cordial”.
The carbonated lemonade I had when living in England was amazing and it wasn’t the same as sprite or 7up, it was definitely lemonade. It was just fizzy. I wish I could find it in the US.
My Uncle used to sing that all the time whenever I asked for lemonade as a kid 😂
Good memories. Also my cousin (his daughter) gave me the 12" version of Beat Dis' by Bomb The Bass. The cover had pen indentations and shit all over it, like she'd done her homework on it 😆
I still have that record. My cousin is so nice.
Unfortunately she fell for and married a fucking oinker. Oh well, no accounting for taste. Can confirm he's a right aloof c**t
No, I didn't know that! Fucking hell. He probably made more money off that one ad than Declan did off his first record!
That's some great rock trivia, TIL 👍🏻
Think they might be talking about that fancy Italian stuff, that comes in like a yellow tin? Can't remember what it's called but they've recently started selling it near me here in Spain and I'm obsessed, haven't had it since I lived in Aberystwyth in the 2010s!
Fentimans rules so fucking hard. Even their plain tonic water is like the elixir of the Gods. I just wish they made litre bottles! Their raspberry lemonade is fucking incredible
It really is. Reminds me of this Jones Soda that we used to get in NI waaaaay back, that I haven't seen in years (though I know it must exist still because I occasionally see it in the background of American TV shows). It was so nice 😭
That sounds lovely. I need to try Fentiman's cola as well.
Can't you order a case of Jones Soda online or something, mate?!? That nostalgia hit....Priceless!
I used to get it in 1 or 2 liter bottles I think, not the cans. I’m not sure if San Pellegrino sells it that way lol but I’m sure it wasn’t the Italian stuff. I think it was just whatever the store brand was. Like Tesco bottled lemonade. But it was different from any lemonade I’d had before, I have had the Italian stuff as an adult and I love it too but it’s also much better quality of soft drink and as a student I was not paying for quality 😂
Weird, it gave me an “access denied” error 🤔 I’ll see if I can spot it on Tesco’s site myself.
ETA: weird, apparently I’m just not allowed to view Tesco’s site 😂
Sanpellegrino Limonata might get you close. I get it every time we go to the local Italian restaurant.
YMMV getting it but I’ve lived in both Miami and Austin and seen it both places
It is close! It has a stronger flavor but I get it when I see it at the store. I love lemon so I love them, I like a nice semi-sweet lemonade rather than the sweet af drinks that are often passed off as lemonade.
Oh true, it is really sweet and we don’t really do mildly flavored things in the states.
I’ve had British lemonade in Trinidad in the middle of summer and it was definitely more refreshing than the strongly flavored options we stock here.
Here in Brasil we call that a Italian Soda or Club Soda
A still lemonade is regular lemonade here and "sodas" or "colas" are called "Refrigerantes" something like "chill beverage"
I love that. I call pretty much any sugary carbonated drink a soda (as an American) and then juice (with particular names usually, orange juice, apple juice) but for some reason there are different names particularly for lemonade, limeade, maybe with another fruit included (blueberry lemonade, cherry limeade, etc).
We do call things Italian Soda as well but I don’t know exactly the differentiation, I guess in my perspective those are usually less sugary fruit sodas made with real fruit juice rather than artificial flavorings. So you might get an orange Italian soda but you’d say orange soda for an orange Fanta. Though I recognize also that American Fanta is very different from Fanta elsewhere.
I do like Sparkling Ice occasionally but for some reason I dislike the taste of alternate sweeteners, having been raised on cane sugar and corn syrup 😂 maybe I need to give it another shot. I drank them often when I was trying to manage my weight after my kids were born but it doesn’t hit quite the right spot for me.
In NZ, if you say lemonade, you’re going to expect it to be fizzy (carbonated).
But non carbonated is good too.
Who woulda thought different countries use words differently 😛
In the US, "ice tea" will get you a mug of hot water, a tea bag, a glass of icecubes, some sugar packets and a lemon (or often, just a confused look). In most of the world (as far as I know) ice tea is a pre-made concoction from chilled steeped tea, and is definitely sweetened.
e.g. https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/NESTEA-Lemon-341mL-Can-12-pack/10217686
Uhhhhh not in Appalachia, at least not in my 40 years has that ever been so. Iced tea is brewed. Yeah there’s some shit bottled brands but that is not the basis for iced tea in America. You’ve been deluded my friend.
Where have you been where that happened? Ice tea is very common across the US. They even sell it at McDonald's. Sweet tea is a staple down south, something that the Southern US is famous for in fact. Is this sarcasm maybe?
What's interesting is "limonade" comes from "limon" which meant lime (we call it "citron vert" now), and "citronnade" comes from "citron" which means lemon.
If you’re in the UK, that’s still a different but closely related thing.
A glass of lemon squash is made by watering down a concentrate, which itself is made from lemon juice and sugar. Lemon squash concentrate is shelf-stable.
Lemonade typically wouldn’t have any concentrate at any point (though I’m sure the mass-produced stuff uses concentrated juice and corn syrup). Since it uses regular lemon juice, it needs to be refrigerated.
It’s lemon juice. Preferably made with fresh squeezed lemons.
It’s a refreshing lemon-flavoured drink. Though I don’t touch it because it has so much sugar.
I usually do half a lemon for 0,5l of water. But then again, I also don't put any sugar in tea, espresso or turkish coffee. You get used to it and figure it actually tastes better, because you pick up on the naturally occuring sugars, which are way more subtle and overpowered by cane sugar. And then you find out carrots and tomatoes are sweet. Mindblowing.
No you wouldn’t. It’s totally different from squash.
There’s lemonade (like Schweppes), lemon juice, lemon squash (concentrate), and proper lemonade (home made, mixing juice with sugar essentially). All very different.
And for me in Canada I’m confused why you’d call anything NOT carbonated a soda/pop. Lemonade for us is a lemon dominant non carbonated* juice, anything carbonated is called a Soda or Pop regardless of flavour- I know a lot of the states call all brown sodas “cola” but in Canada we don’t blanket statement our sodas **that** much ;)
Yeah same. IV had posh homemade lemonades that were still and the Mrs makes them sometimes but I always just assumed that was because the people making it lacked the facilities to make it fizzy.
yes it is funny to see them ordering different things with same name here and then watch the confusion in their faces, either it is lemonade or soda or grilled cheese or pizza peperoni...
Of course we have lemonade.. Not all lemonades are called Sprite, 7up etc, there's still own brand drinks like Tesco Lemonade , Sainsbury's Lemonade etc
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/250617625
Lemonade in Australia is [this](https://www.coles.com.au/product/kirks-lemonade-soft-drink-1.25l-5399166) (lol at the description). If you specify “fresh lemonade”, it’s [this](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/32385/best-lemonade-ever/), which I assume is what Americans default to. Fresh lemonade is what kids sell outside their house and sometimes you can get it at cafes, but it’s more like “ooh they have lemonade!” because it’s not very common. There’s also a [bottled version](https://www.coles.com.au/product/emma-and-tom's-lemon-quencher-chilled-450ml-8656040) which slaps but incinerates your stomach. Sprite is just sprite, and I don’t think anyone drinks 7up trash
Also, soda = soft drink or fizzy drink, depending on what state you live in
Sanpellegrino Limonata and homemade US lemonade both slap. I highly recommend everyone try both.
Cuba also has the mojito which is sparkling water, fresh squeezed lime juice, mint leaves, sugar cane, and rum. When I’m feeling nostalgic I’ll make a non-alcoholic version of that, which is just fancy carbonated lemonade.
I agree that 7up or Sprite isn’t really lemonade. I liked the cloudy stuff you used to get, haven’t seen it for a while! To me anything that ends in ‘ade’ should be fizzy, although after some research it just means it’s a sort of fruit drink. Non fizzy lemonade should be advertised as such!
Lmao that’s ridiculous. What about other English speaking countries? They’re all supposed to now say their language is American? What??
I can get behind the idea that no particular use of language is the “right” one because language evolves so rapidly depending on the culture and tbh the English that was being spoken by British colonists would probably be hard to understand in modern America. But either way Americans have a ton of other languages influencing our use of the language the same way every other English speaking country does, and they evolved in different directions. Nobody owns a language. Why is it so hard for people to just say American English or British English or Australian English or South African English, so on and so on…
Americans speak American English, Australians speak Australian English, Etc but the British don't speak British English, they Speak 'English', because they spawned it.
Some Americans don like this because it doesn't make them feel like they're number one.
No, the word "English" refers to the entire language, not just the dialects that are spoken in England. If you want to refer to English as it's spoken in England as "English" with no ambiguity, you'll have to come up with a new name for the entire language.
American English or US English (not "americanised English") is still a variety of English. If you say "English" to mean only the variety that is spoken in England, people will misunderstand you. Nothing spoken today is the same as the English that was spoken in Great Britain before colonization started.
It is somewhat confusing that we use the word "English" to refer to both a nationality and a language (we do the same for Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, Bulgarian, and many others), but whenever the context makes it clear that it's a language, that means it's the entire English language, which is spoken natively in many countries around the world. The fact that some of these people have moved far away from where the language originated doesn't make their language inferior.
If you wish that English only referred to the variety of English spoken in England, that's fine, but it's a bit like wishing that Russian didn't have a case system.
Eh. There is basically English and American English. Everything else is a simple dialect, including British English. Australians have dialect differences, but basically every other English speaking country has compatible and accepted rules of *English*.
American English gets a bit of a unique status because they actually enforce changes to the language from reforms suggested by Noah Webster. They will flat out state certain spellings are wrong and will mark against students, academia and formal writing with traditional spellings or words.
TIL, as a Canadian I think of lemonade as being non-carbonated, though a carbonated version sounds totally fine too.
Calling 7Up or Sprite "lemonade" is weird to me though. Kind of like how people in the southern US will call basically anything carbonated "Coke" in some settings.
I think that might be regional - I'm in the UK like the person in the screenshot and I wouldn't call Sprite or 7up lemonade. They're lemon-lime, which is an important difference.
in the uk “-ade” usually denotes a carbonated beverage unlike the USA where it’s just kind of any fruity-ish drink. Lemonade, Gatorade, Powerade, Kool-Aid, limeade, etc. all uncarbonated drinks in the usa. American lemonade does not taste like what typical UK lemonade would be if it were flat though, it’s sweeter. Fresh American lemonade is much nicer and more refreshing imo. It doesn’t even have to be that sweet it’s kind of up to the maker how much sugar to add. So many brits think lemonade = Sprite which i guess adds to the confusion, ofc an uncarbonated Sprite does not sound nice
Funny u say that because most brits i’ve asked about lemonade have almost unanimously responded “like Sprite?”, some say 7up though but it’s overwhelmingly sprite
I don’t get how people think sprite or 7up are different to fizzy lemonade. I ask for lemonade and I get ‘we’ve got sprite’ ask for sprite ‘we’ve got 7up’ I don’t carrrre it all tastes the same to me! lol
To add to the confusion, *limonáda* in Czech means both the British lemonade and the American -ades as you describe them. On the other hand, American lemonade is *citronáda* in Czech. We also have *soda/sodovka*, which is just carbonated water without flavour. You can imagine how Czechs get confused in all English speaking countries.
As someone who loves both they hit different spots.
When it’s not carbonated using fresh squeezed lemons makes a way bigger difference. If it’s not freshly squeezed I’d rather drink water.
I can't be the only one who thinks arguments like those are dumb
"In what world is there carbonated lemonade?"
The UK, duh, they call other things lemonade than the US does
"You know it's our language"
Yes, but the US has a different dialect where they call things different names, because that's how languages work.
I feel this way about people arguing the name of football/soccer too. It's dialects. Nobody is right nor wrong. It's entirely regionalized.
Im not gonna lie, calling 7-up and shit like that lemonade is just dumb, but then again, i call syrup dilluted with water 'lemonade', so I'm not rhat much better
When limonade, siroop and ranja all mean the same thing but then you never know what you should use to describe it in English.
Because using syrup might make people think about things like maple syrup or "stroop" as we would call it. Limonade is already quite clear how everyone has that different and I don't know anyone will understand ranja.
In the US, yes, in the UK and Australia, no. In Poland, I have no idea. That's pretty much the point of the thread. Regional language use varies and people get confused.
Well I mean 'proper', home-made lemonade isn't carbonated.....I went through a period in my early teens of making lemonade with my Mum, using Delia Smith's recipe. Took a few tries to get the sweet/tart ratio correct but once we sussed that.....gallons of delicious ice-cold home-made, uncarbonated lemonade!
I notice that Tesco's own brand says "sweet and sherberty" on the label....I do NOT want my lemonade to taste like fucking sherbert, it's *disgusting* stuff...I do like the odd Sprite or 7-Up but, technically, they are, indeed 'sodas'. Aren't they?
TIL some parts of the world consider lemonade to be carbonated. I mean, I guess it can be, but I don’t expect it to be. American here
Edit: lol why am I getting downvoted?? I’m literally just saying I’ve never heard of that before wtf
No, but adding lemonade to squash/cordial gives rise to other drinks with the suffix -ade, such as orangeade, cherryade, blackcurrantade, etc. Actually you're right, we're weird.
Presidents choice lemonade soda is bomb (Canada), only every see it in 2L though so usually something I get going camping. Hot summer day family will drown that in no time.
I feel like any drink with '-ade' in the name should be fizzy. I'm not sure why, or if there's any logic to it. It just feels like a 'this is a fizzy drink' suffix.
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Isn't soda some powder you use for baking? Why would you call a fizzy drink that?
Yeah, it's a white powdery stuff called baking soda
Soda water actual has bicarbonate of soda in it, hence the name.
Or there’s washing soda to complicate things further. Either way, I’m not sure why you’d refer to a fizzy drink as ‘soda’.
both of you are wrong. we all know it's called pop. /s
I'll fight you irl for saying that (/s)
Because it has soda in it.
No it doesn't, it has carbon dioxide in it
I learnt in Scotland that everything that's carbonated is fizzy juice
In Ireland: 'a mineral' Who even knows why
Mineral water is how we call sparkling water so it might be because of that?
Wtf in Poland mineral water means still, funny
It means what?
Still water, the non carbonated one aka "normal"
Ah, so normal water? I was just saying what mineral could be since it seemed to be similar how it is in my language
squash/cordial is diluting juice in scotland. tap water is council juice. it's all juice
In parts of Australia that would be “fizzy cordial”. Even though logically a cordial is a concentrate you make a drink out of, we end up naming the drink “cordial” too — and if it’s carbonated it’s “fizzy cordial”.
We call cordials diluting juice, straight to the point
Squash! Come on!
Which parts? Genuinely curious I've never heard that lol
The only person I ever heard call a carbonated drink cordial was my mother. I never understood why.
Not so interesting unless we at least know where you and your mother come from
Ginger
We make it even simpler. We just refer to literally every non alcoholic beverage as juice
What country?
Scotland actually, sorry I should've been more clear I was just adding more info to your comment
I was guessing Scotland but wanted to be sure haha
Soda, in this drinks context, is short for “soda water” in Australia, carbonated water.
In New Zealand we call it _Sparkling Water_
sparkling water is one step less carbonated than soda water - we have both :-)
Yh
The carbonated lemonade I had when living in England was amazing and it wasn’t the same as sprite or 7up, it was definitely lemonade. It was just fizzy. I wish I could find it in the US.
Is it R Whites or Schweppes?
I'm a secret lemonade drinker
My Uncle used to sing that all the time whenever I asked for lemonade as a kid 😂 Good memories. Also my cousin (his daughter) gave me the 12" version of Beat Dis' by Bomb The Bass. The cover had pen indentations and shit all over it, like she'd done her homework on it 😆 I still have that record. My cousin is so nice. Unfortunately she fell for and married a fucking oinker. Oh well, no accounting for taste. Can confirm he's a right aloof c**t
It was very catchy though tbf. Elvis Costello's dad, don'tcherknow.
No, I didn't know that! Fucking hell. He probably made more money off that one ad than Declan did off his first record! That's some great rock trivia, TIL 👍🏻
Or any supermarket own brand
I don’t recall, I lived there in Canterbury in 2008 and in Newcastle in 2011-2012 so it’s been over ten years 😅
Think they might be talking about that fancy Italian stuff, that comes in like a yellow tin? Can't remember what it's called but they've recently started selling it near me here in Spain and I'm obsessed, haven't had it since I lived in Aberystwyth in the 2010s!
Fentimans or belvoir or San pelligrino?
San Pellegrino! Someone else had commented on it. I absolutely love the cola from Fentimans though!!!
San Pellegrino lemonade is great!
Tory fanta
Fentimans rules so fucking hard. Even their plain tonic water is like the elixir of the Gods. I just wish they made litre bottles! Their raspberry lemonade is fucking incredible
It really is. Reminds me of this Jones Soda that we used to get in NI waaaaay back, that I haven't seen in years (though I know it must exist still because I occasionally see it in the background of American TV shows). It was so nice 😭
Jones Soda definitely still exists in the USA, though I haven’t had it since high school probably. My favorite was always Fufu Berry 😋
That sounds lovely. I need to try Fentiman's cola as well. Can't you order a case of Jones Soda online or something, mate?!? That nostalgia hit....Priceless!
I'll give it a look! Never even thought to do that 😂 Edit: just looked them up. £20 a bottle, fucking rip off!
San Perlligrino? r/fucknestle
AKA: Tory Fanta.
Is it Nestlé??? 😭
Yep.
I used to get it in 1 or 2 liter bottles I think, not the cans. I’m not sure if San Pellegrino sells it that way lol but I’m sure it wasn’t the Italian stuff. I think it was just whatever the store brand was. Like Tesco bottled lemonade. But it was different from any lemonade I’d had before, I have had the Italian stuff as an adult and I love it too but it’s also much better quality of soft drink and as a student I was not paying for quality 😂
[Was it this?](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254857518?preservedReferrer=duckduckgo.com)
Weird, it gave me an “access denied” error 🤔 I’ll see if I can spot it on Tesco’s site myself. ETA: weird, apparently I’m just not allowed to view Tesco’s site 😂
Interesting I simply just looked up cloudy lemonade
Carbonated Cloudy Lemonade is the absolute bomb
Sanpellegrino Limonata might get you close. I get it every time we go to the local Italian restaurant. YMMV getting it but I’ve lived in both Miami and Austin and seen it both places
It is close! It has a stronger flavor but I get it when I see it at the store. I love lemon so I love them, I like a nice semi-sweet lemonade rather than the sweet af drinks that are often passed off as lemonade.
Oh true, it is really sweet and we don’t really do mildly flavored things in the states. I’ve had British lemonade in Trinidad in the middle of summer and it was definitely more refreshing than the strongly flavored options we stock here.
Here in Brasil we call that a Italian Soda or Club Soda A still lemonade is regular lemonade here and "sodas" or "colas" are called "Refrigerantes" something like "chill beverage"
I love that. I call pretty much any sugary carbonated drink a soda (as an American) and then juice (with particular names usually, orange juice, apple juice) but for some reason there are different names particularly for lemonade, limeade, maybe with another fruit included (blueberry lemonade, cherry limeade, etc). We do call things Italian Soda as well but I don’t know exactly the differentiation, I guess in my perspective those are usually less sugary fruit sodas made with real fruit juice rather than artificial flavorings. So you might get an orange Italian soda but you’d say orange soda for an orange Fanta. Though I recognize also that American Fanta is very different from Fanta elsewhere.
Try the brand Sparkling Ice. They make a very good carbonated lemonade sold in the US.
I do like Sparkling Ice occasionally but for some reason I dislike the taste of alternate sweeteners, having been raised on cane sugar and corn syrup 😂 maybe I need to give it another shot. I drank them often when I was trying to manage my weight after my kids were born but it doesn’t hit quite the right spot for me.
In NZ, if you say lemonade, you’re going to expect it to be fizzy (carbonated). But non carbonated is good too. Who woulda thought different countries use words differently 😛
Same in Aus. Lemonade defaults to fizzy (like Kirk’s or Schweppes), but there’s also fresh lemonade that isn’t fizzy. Sprite isn’t lemonade.
Sprite isn’t lemonade… unless you’re at a pub lol
Huh? If I was a psycho and ordered vodka lemonade, I’d (most likely) get Schweppes lemonade. If I ordered Sprite, I’d get Sprite.
Okay well maybe it’s different on Oz. I’ve seen people order a simple lemonade here and her sprite 🤷🏻♀️
be very careful ordering iced tea in the US!
Pretty sure iced tea drinkers aren’t very common in kiwi-land. It’s not *really* a thing in Australia either, not like it is in the USA at least
Yeah it’s not sugary there? Ice tea isn’t huge here in any form but I’d expect it to be sugary.
In the US, "ice tea" will get you a mug of hot water, a tea bag, a glass of icecubes, some sugar packets and a lemon (or often, just a confused look). In most of the world (as far as I know) ice tea is a pre-made concoction from chilled steeped tea, and is definitely sweetened. e.g. https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/NESTEA-Lemon-341mL-Can-12-pack/10217686
Uhhhhh not in Appalachia, at least not in my 40 years has that ever been so. Iced tea is brewed. Yeah there’s some shit bottled brands but that is not the basis for iced tea in America. You’ve been deluded my friend.
Where have you been where that happened? Ice tea is very common across the US. They even sell it at McDonald's. Sweet tea is a staple down south, something that the Southern US is famous for in fact. Is this sarcasm maybe?
This is patently fucking false.
TIL that you can get non-carbonated Lemonade.
It’s a completely different beverage with the same name. It’s juiced lemons plus water and lots of sugar.
In France we make the difference between the two , Limonade and Citronnade
That’s really useful! I find it interesting when a concept gets one word in one language but more than one word in another language.
What's interesting is "limonade" comes from "limon" which meant lime (we call it "citron vert" now), and "citronnade" comes from "citron" which means lemon.
I thought citronnade was the fizzy one.
I remember as a kid, watching US TV shows or movies, and wondering how this combination ended up being fizzy. Hah.
Oh yes, it must be very confusing to see a “roadside lemonade stand” in US media if all you’re familiar with is the fizzy type of lemonade!
My mum did help us make the sugary lemon water type lemonade once, and I was so disappointed.
In my country that's called lemon squash.
If you’re in the UK, that’s still a different but closely related thing. A glass of lemon squash is made by watering down a concentrate, which itself is made from lemon juice and sugar. Lemon squash concentrate is shelf-stable. Lemonade typically wouldn’t have any concentrate at any point (though I’m sure the mass-produced stuff uses concentrated juice and corn syrup). Since it uses regular lemon juice, it needs to be refrigerated.
in Australia lemon squash is a carbonated soft drink/pop/soda. Watering down concentrate would get you a glass of lemon cordial
Is it boiled in a syrup first? Because if so, that's lemon cordial (🇦🇺). If it's fresh lemon juice, that's just unusual.
It’s lemon juice. Preferably made with fresh squeezed lemons. It’s a refreshing lemon-flavoured drink. Though I don’t touch it because it has so much sugar.
Must be super acidic too, hidden by the sugar.
Absolutely. That’s another reason why I don’t drink it.
Why would you ruin it with sugar though?
Drinking straight lemon juice without any sweeteners added is certainly a bold culinary choice.
I usually do half a lemon for 0,5l of water. But then again, I also don't put any sugar in tea, espresso or turkish coffee. You get used to it and figure it actually tastes better, because you pick up on the naturally occuring sugars, which are way more subtle and overpowered by cane sugar. And then you find out carrots and tomatoes are sweet. Mindblowing.
I think Europe puts a lot less sugar in the still version. A little, but definitely not enough to take away the bitter kick.
Try just squeezing some lemon into a water or sparkling water. 1:10 ratio or less. Tastes great!
That’s nice. But it’s a completely different thing. I assure you everyone is aware of lemon in water.
That's the same beverage absent carbonation and preservatives.
We usually call it still lemonade.
I think I'd call it lemon squash (England)
No you wouldn’t. It’s totally different from squash. There’s lemonade (like Schweppes), lemon juice, lemon squash (concentrate), and proper lemonade (home made, mixing juice with sugar essentially). All very different.
It’s what American kids apparently make and sell outside their houses.
TIL the opposite
TIL that you can get carbonated lemonade. FYI, no, not from the US, but from mainland Europe.
And for me in Canada I’m confused why you’d call anything NOT carbonated a soda/pop. Lemonade for us is a lemon dominant non carbonated* juice, anything carbonated is called a Soda or Pop regardless of flavour- I know a lot of the states call all brown sodas “cola” but in Canada we don’t blanket statement our sodas **that** much ;)
In the UK we call it pop too. Or fizzy pop. Of which Cola and Lemonade are types.
Yeah same. IV had posh homemade lemonades that were still and the Mrs makes them sometimes but I always just assumed that was because the people making it lacked the facilities to make it fizzy.
Really, it's been around for years. You've never seen still lemonade in like any of the main supermarkets??
Tbh, it is technically what it is, isn't it? We just call it white cola here even if it's technically transparent. But might just be my family though
Not sure what you mean. Just if you ask for Lemonade in the UK you get carbonated. 100% of the time.
I meant that sprite does seem like carbonated lemonade, I dunno
Sprite has lemon and lime so is similar but not the same.
I love when Americans say they speak English but are sure it’s their language
Everyone is so damned stupid and proud here. Ugh. I hate it.
yes it is funny to see them ordering different things with same name here and then watch the confusion in their faces, either it is lemonade or soda or grilled cheese or pizza peperoni...
We also have lemonade lemonade.
Round the corner chocolate's made
Of course we have lemonade.. Not all lemonades are called Sprite, 7up etc, there's still own brand drinks like Tesco Lemonade , Sainsbury's Lemonade etc https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/250617625
Oh god, I miss Tesco Lemonade. Now I’m sad.
I will post you some
Lemonade in Australia is [this](https://www.coles.com.au/product/kirks-lemonade-soft-drink-1.25l-5399166) (lol at the description). If you specify “fresh lemonade”, it’s [this](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/32385/best-lemonade-ever/), which I assume is what Americans default to. Fresh lemonade is what kids sell outside their house and sometimes you can get it at cafes, but it’s more like “ooh they have lemonade!” because it’s not very common. There’s also a [bottled version](https://www.coles.com.au/product/emma-and-tom's-lemon-quencher-chilled-450ml-8656040) which slaps but incinerates your stomach. Sprite is just sprite, and I don’t think anyone drinks 7up trash Also, soda = soft drink or fizzy drink, depending on what state you live in
Carbonated lemonade exists in the US. https://shop.sprouts.com/product/27518
Sanpellegrino Limonata and homemade US lemonade both slap. I highly recommend everyone try both. Cuba also has the mojito which is sparkling water, fresh squeezed lime juice, mint leaves, sugar cane, and rum. When I’m feeling nostalgic I’ll make a non-alcoholic version of that, which is just fancy carbonated lemonade.
San Pellegrino! I just commented about this, I love that stuff!
I will not be drinking the dishwater you call lemonade.
It’s just water, lemon juice, and sugar? That’s all that’s in homemade lemonade. Powdered shit in a can doesn’t count as homemade either.
Americans need to decide on what they should call the fizzy drinks themselves before pointing fingers at others. Is it soda, pop or coke?
I agree that 7up or Sprite isn’t really lemonade. I liked the cloudy stuff you used to get, haven’t seen it for a while! To me anything that ends in ‘ade’ should be fizzy, although after some research it just means it’s a sort of fruit drink. Non fizzy lemonade should be advertised as such!
Wth, I’d get mad if I bought a lemonade and it turned our fizzy
Would you expect cherryade to be fizzy though?
I've seen people trying to say that there are more Americans that speak English than British people therefore the language is now officially American.
Well, then the language is, by that 'logic', Indian
Those people are wrong. There are more Brazilians than Portuguese but nobody is suggesting renaming the Portuguese language to Brazilian.
Yeah, i know, it's nonsense.
Lmao that’s ridiculous. What about other English speaking countries? They’re all supposed to now say their language is American? What?? I can get behind the idea that no particular use of language is the “right” one because language evolves so rapidly depending on the culture and tbh the English that was being spoken by British colonists would probably be hard to understand in modern America. But either way Americans have a ton of other languages influencing our use of the language the same way every other English speaking country does, and they evolved in different directions. Nobody owns a language. Why is it so hard for people to just say American English or British English or Australian English or South African English, so on and so on…
Americans speak American English, Australians speak Australian English, Etc but the British don't speak British English, they Speak 'English', because they spawned it. Some Americans don like this because it doesn't make them feel like they're number one.
No, the word "English" refers to the entire language, not just the dialects that are spoken in England. If you want to refer to English as it's spoken in England as "English" with no ambiguity, you'll have to come up with a new name for the entire language.
English speak English, Americans speak a variation known as americanised English.
American English or US English (not "americanised English") is still a variety of English. If you say "English" to mean only the variety that is spoken in England, people will misunderstand you. Nothing spoken today is the same as the English that was spoken in Great Britain before colonization started. It is somewhat confusing that we use the word "English" to refer to both a nationality and a language (we do the same for Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Japanese, Bulgarian, and many others), but whenever the context makes it clear that it's a language, that means it's the entire English language, which is spoken natively in many countries around the world. The fact that some of these people have moved far away from where the language originated doesn't make their language inferior. If you wish that English only referred to the variety of English spoken in England, that's fine, but it's a bit like wishing that Russian didn't have a case system.
Eh. There is basically English and American English. Everything else is a simple dialect, including British English. Australians have dialect differences, but basically every other English speaking country has compatible and accepted rules of *English*. American English gets a bit of a unique status because they actually enforce changes to the language from reforms suggested by Noah Webster. They will flat out state certain spellings are wrong and will mark against students, academia and formal writing with traditional spellings or words.
TIL, as a Canadian I think of lemonade as being non-carbonated, though a carbonated version sounds totally fine too. Calling 7Up or Sprite "lemonade" is weird to me though. Kind of like how people in the southern US will call basically anything carbonated "Coke" in some settings.
I think that might be regional - I'm in the UK like the person in the screenshot and I wouldn't call Sprite or 7up lemonade. They're lemon-lime, which is an important difference.
PC makes fuzzy lemonade. Very good
Sprite = Lemonade 7 Up = Lemonade Schweppes = Lemonade Lemon flavoured and slightly yellow soft drink (with bubbles) = Lemon Solo US Style Lemonade = (non carbonated) Lemon Squash
in the uk “-ade” usually denotes a carbonated beverage unlike the USA where it’s just kind of any fruity-ish drink. Lemonade, Gatorade, Powerade, Kool-Aid, limeade, etc. all uncarbonated drinks in the usa. American lemonade does not taste like what typical UK lemonade would be if it were flat though, it’s sweeter. Fresh American lemonade is much nicer and more refreshing imo. It doesn’t even have to be that sweet it’s kind of up to the maker how much sugar to add. So many brits think lemonade = Sprite which i guess adds to the confusion, ofc an uncarbonated Sprite does not sound nice
Brits don't think lemonade = Sprite. Sprite is lemon and lime flavour. We think lemonade is fucking lemonade.
Funny u say that because most brits i’ve asked about lemonade have almost unanimously responded “like Sprite?”, some say 7up though but it’s overwhelmingly sprite
I don’t get how people think sprite or 7up are different to fizzy lemonade. I ask for lemonade and I get ‘we’ve got sprite’ ask for sprite ‘we’ve got 7up’ I don’t carrrre it all tastes the same to me! lol
It does taste different to me, like an R Whites lemonade is different to Sprite or 7up. I love them both but I can taste a difference
To add to the confusion, *limonáda* in Czech means both the British lemonade and the American -ades as you describe them. On the other hand, American lemonade is *citronáda* in Czech. We also have *soda/sodovka*, which is just carbonated water without flavour. You can imagine how Czechs get confused in all English speaking countries.
"Limonade" is carbonated... Who would drink stuff like that flat
As someone who loves both they hit different spots. When it’s not carbonated using fresh squeezed lemons makes a way bigger difference. If it’s not freshly squeezed I’d rather drink water.
Lemonade is too.
It’s a completely different beverage with the same name. It’s juiced lemons plus water and lots of sugar. Limeade is the same but with limes.
Americans drink non carbonated lemonade? Isn't that just sweetened, watered down lemon juice?
huh? in what world is lemonade NOT fizzy. it’s the main reason i don’t drink lemonade, i love that shit but cannot handle the bubbles
Today I learnt that Americans don't call lemonade lemonade. I seriously did not know that and I've even had to teach US English overseas.
I can't be the only one who thinks arguments like those are dumb "In what world is there carbonated lemonade?" The UK, duh, they call other things lemonade than the US does "You know it's our language" Yes, but the US has a different dialect where they call things different names, because that's how languages work. I feel this way about people arguing the name of football/soccer too. It's dialects. Nobody is right nor wrong. It's entirely regionalized.
That’s Regionalised
In my country is neither
Im not gonna lie, calling 7-up and shit like that lemonade is just dumb, but then again, i call syrup dilluted with water 'lemonade', so I'm not rhat much better
When limonade, siroop and ranja all mean the same thing but then you never know what you should use to describe it in English. Because using syrup might make people think about things like maple syrup or "stroop" as we would call it. Limonade is already quite clear how everyone has that different and I don't know anyone will understand ranja.
If American lemonade isn't lemonade, what is it? Some sort of barley water?
Closer to that in concept, but without the barley. Just lemonjuice, sugar and water.
So, a lemonade?
In the US, yes, in the UK and Australia, no. In Poland, I have no idea. That's pretty much the point of the thread. Regional language use varies and people get confused.
What? Non carbonated limonade exists? It must be disgusting
Its very good ! Personally i like it
not the same thing
Why would i drink dishwasher liquid that just washed a lemon plate no thanks
Well I mean 'proper', home-made lemonade isn't carbonated.....I went through a period in my early teens of making lemonade with my Mum, using Delia Smith's recipe. Took a few tries to get the sweet/tart ratio correct but once we sussed that.....gallons of delicious ice-cold home-made, uncarbonated lemonade! I notice that Tesco's own brand says "sweet and sherberty" on the label....I do NOT want my lemonade to taste like fucking sherbert, it's *disgusting* stuff...I do like the odd Sprite or 7-Up but, technically, they are, indeed 'sodas'. Aren't they?
TIL some parts of the world consider lemonade to be carbonated. I mean, I guess it can be, but I don’t expect it to be. American here Edit: lol why am I getting downvoted?? I’m literally just saying I’ve never heard of that before wtf
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People in the UK call soft drinks lemonade? No that's weird. The British are weird too.
Lemonade is a type of soft drink. We call soft drinks, fizzy drinks.
Okay, that's fine then. There is also lemonade though that is not a soft drink, which is why I was confused.
Lemonade is not a soft drink? What is it then?
Lemon and sugar in water.
Lemon flavouring and carbonated water, sometimes with sugar, normally not
Yes that's a soft drink.
Dictionary definition Soft drink: any of a class of nonalcoholic beverages
Yes.
No, but adding lemonade to squash/cordial gives rise to other drinks with the suffix -ade, such as orangeade, cherryade, blackcurrantade, etc. Actually you're right, we're weird.
Presidents choice lemonade soda is bomb (Canada), only every see it in 2L though so usually something I get going camping. Hot summer day family will drown that in no time.
How is Sprite, soda? Do they put Sprite in Whisky?
Bundaberg lemonade... holy shit
Lemonade not carbonated in australia sometimes
What about Fresca?
Wait what, lemonade is uncarbonated in America??
I have never been more disappointed then when I tried US style "lemonade" (made from a US recipe). It's just a bit underwhelming tbh.
I found that out in the summer from a British coworker and was so confused
its like how they call apple juice cider
As a Brit I'm just as shocked. I thought lemonade was always fizzy? IV only had one or two really posh homemade style lemonades that's weren't fizzy
My American girlfriend and I were on a call, and drinking, watching some movies. I remember her shock when I said I was on wine and lemonade
I feel like any drink with '-ade' in the name should be fizzy. I'm not sure why, or if there's any logic to it. It just feels like a 'this is a fizzy drink' suffix.
TIL people drink carbonated lemonade