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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Because what we call "lemonade" in Europe is not the same drink as what is called "lemonade" in the US, although we usually have our own variation (citronnade in France) that corresponds to the American one.
We know what you call it, you're just fucking wrong.
Oh really, then let me just go find some "alcoholic" cider.
Linguistic redundancy at its finest
These are the same people who drive on the wrong side of the road and weigh themselves in stones.
Didn't know all of europe is now the UK
Get antibrexited nerd
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What's lemonade in the EU, then?
Or rather, what do you call water, lemon juice and sugar blended together?
Since I don't speak EU, I can only tell you, what it's called in German. And that would be
- Zitronenwasser
- Zitronenschorle
- Süßer Sprudel
- Wasser mit Zitronensaft und Zucker
- selbstgemachte Limonade
I don't really know. It doesn't have much cultural presence here. We have our own drinks that we drink all the time and have names for like Bionade, Schorle, Fassbrause, Radler.
Speaking to 28 countries with 24 languages "WhAt Do YoU cAlL tHiS?"
Not that the UK is in the EU anymore, but we'd call that "Still lemonade", still meaning not sparkling.
Not to be confused with "Flat lemonade", which would just be regular "sparkling" lemonade which has lost its bubbles and now tastes rancid.
Even the real Lemonade in Europe is fizzy, so it actually is closer to Sprite than you'd think.
Obviously Spite isn't really lemonade it's soda, but that's also not really a word that exists in Europe. It's known about and it's understood especially in more recent times, but historically it's not really a word you'd commonly use.
So because Lemonade is sparkling, and the word soda isn't really used, you can kind of see how people would then say well Sprite is Lemonade.
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In Germany, Limonade is usually from oranges, so Fanta.
Limonade
Oranges
What is this madness? Limonade is made with lemon and lime. Or at least "limon" which is a hybrid of lemon and lime.
In that case we would usually specify Zitronenlimo.
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It's more that they're straight up called the same thing in those areas for some strange reason.
May have been from back in the day when sodas were still made from carbonating different kinds of fruit juices. Drinks like fanta were a lot more like sparkling lemonade or orange juice than they are now.
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Here in germany every sweetened, carbonated beverage is called "lemonade"
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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?
That idiom only exists in media from the USA. I heard that idiom for the first time in Portal2.
Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
I mean you still need lemons to make "lemon soda" as you call it.
This whole thread is blowing my mind
This is an argument I have with my French girlfriend all the time. Their sweet soda they call lemonade doesn't even fucking taste like lemons!!!
On the other hand Orangina is the ultimate orange soda so it's a draw really
Ooooh!!! Oooh!!!! I've had Orangina in Italy and it's made from real Italian oranges with real orange juice and it's the best God damn Orangina I've EVER HAD!
Mate, we're well aware sprite isn't lemonade, that's why we have Solo, Lift and pub squash
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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To be fair, they didn't say NZ.
NZ is way more like Europe than Sprite is like lemonade
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I have it on good authority that the land of stale tea has fizzy lemonade rather than normal lemonade.
They also do not have Arnold Palmers.
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