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.
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.
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.
Lemonade for me (and google) is a homemade recipe with lemon + water with or without sugar syrup, I guess it depends on the country. I also never see Sprite at parties… just Fanta, Cola and our sodas
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.
I love doing that! So much so that for me true lemonade is just carbonated water and lemon. I do it with oranges, grapefruits and strawberries (mashed)
In parts of Scotland all fizzy sugary drinks are called “ginger” I believe, “gies a bottle ay ginger” to get a bottle of lemonade… just to muddy the (lemony) waters further
They’re called the same thing, but no one considers them to be similar.
It’s like how we use “chips” to refer to both crisps and fries. You usually know which ones it’s going to be based on context, and if it’s not clear you can always ask.
On menus and things, we typically would call it “traditional lemonade” to clarify that it’s not sprite.
Where did this bullshit come from? Sprite is not lemonade in Europe or Australia, it’s lemon and lime and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know that.
There’s loads of brands of lemonade here and Australia, cloudy, traditional, clear…wtf?
Wikipedia saying " In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Central Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, a carbonated lemonade soft drink is more common. Despite the differences between the drinks, each is known simply as “lemonade” in countries where it is dominant."
Quora saying “Lemonade” in Australia normally refers to a clear, carbonated, lemon-flavored beverage similar to 7-Up. “Lemon squash” is a cloudy version of the same thing (still carbonated). There’s no particular tradition of making non-carbonated lemon drinks at home, but if you did, you’d probably call it American-style lemonade."
I see on the Wikipedia article it seems to say that lemonade in the USA is flat, not fizzy? I think this is where I confused your question and we got our wires crossed. Anything that ended “ade” in the UK is a fizzy drink, like a pop/soda. Lemonade, cherryade, orangeade etc. Schweppes, Barr’s etc make lemonade like that, clear, sweet fizzy and just lemon flavour.
I can’t think of a drink that’s fresh lemon juice as described on wiki over here. There is squash, or cordial, diluted juice with water. But lemon wasn’t common or popular to the best of my knowledge. I’ll look when I’m in asda the morn now though, just to see for curiosity.
We have a lemon tree right next to our kitchen window and we just open the window to pick lemons for lemonade. I’m kinda spoiled. Still gotta boil my own corn syrup tho.
That’s amazing, where I live these days I’d need a heated polytunnel or greenhouse to grow lemons. I’ve found an online recipe though and I’m def going to try making real lemonade.
No one would call it “American style lemonade”. It would just be home made lemonade or something similar. Also we have a massive tradition of making non carbonated drinks at home. Australian kids grow up drinking cordial, which are pre-made, very sugary, mostly fruit flavoured, and are made by mixing the cordial and water.
I grew up in the UK, lived down under too for just over 5 years, maybe I just missed the Australians calling it lemonade, as it was always lemon and lime with those I know. Was definitely lemon and lime in the UK and not considered the same as lemonade, sprite became the cooler choice over 7up when I was teenager in the 80’s. If you asked for lemonade you wouldn’t get either of those, or folk would check if sprite was okay instead. Maybe it is generational, the young crew do something different, or maybe a lot of people can’t detect lime flavour…I dunno, but in my experience they’re not treated the same.
Just one Internet strangers experience though.
I know it says Lemon lime on the label. Doesn’t change the fact that us Aussies call it lemonade.
I dunno, I’ve been out of the country for the past 12 or so years so maybe things have changed significantly over that time, but for my entire life up until I left, everyone calls Sprite & similar drinks lemonade. No one I know ever made the distinction between Sprite (lemon-lime) and something like Schweppes lemonade (Lemon only), they were just both lemonade, unless you specifically wanted a specific brand.
I’ve always known sprite and similar lemon flavored soft drinks to be lemonade, though there is a lime version.
I’m sure I remember seeing lemonade on sprite packaging when I was younger, and it looks like Google agrees with my memory. Not sure why these other guys are arguing with you.
Obviously the same for all the other brands as well (Schweppes lemonade is very much a carbonated soft drink).
Maybe it’s generational, I’m pretty old and sprite is and always was lemon and lime, it’s why it’s green and yellow… it became popular in the uk when I was young as a 7up competitor which stopped being “cool” in the 80s though it had been more popular before that.
Lived in UK, France, Canada and Australia… so its just personal experience.
It’s not though, it’s lemon and lime. Lemonade is just fizzy lemon…Barr’s make a great lemonade, Schweppes is decent. if you go for a lemonade and orange or lemonade and lime in a pub you generally don’t get sprite/7up. If its all they’ve got they’ll check with you that that’s OK, like if they have Pepsi instead of Coke.
Could just be the language. In Finnish “limonadi” is soda, though you barely hear that word nowadays. Hence, not hard to think that sprite is lemonade.
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
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
Most of our schools are still safe tho :)
You’re not wrong, but it is a bit like bringing Hitler into the conversation.
The US has never had Hitler, feel better now? Can we talk about soda and lemonade now?
I think that native americans could say something about you never having had a hitler.
Several even, depending on who you ask.
But you lot sure seem keen on getting your own one.
Yeaaaah. I knew it might’ve been a bit much the moment I said it, but I just left it. Sorry bout that.
“it’s provocative, it gets the people going!”
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
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.
How does water + sugar + lemon juice = a fizzy drink?
You guys don’t have kool-aid either do you?
Bro never heard of carbonated water
Most places all fruit flavored pop are called lemonade. Where I live even mint and coke can be called that.
I don’t think I’ve ever had real lemonade, only sprite.
Grab a glass, fill it with water, squirt of lemon juice, few tablespoons of sugar, stir, enjoy
Coke is actually lemon flavored though
In Germany, Limonade is usually from oranges, so Fanta.
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.
Lemonade for me (and google) is a homemade recipe with lemon + water with or without sugar syrup, I guess it depends on the country. I also never see Sprite at parties… just Fanta, Cola and our sodas
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.
I love doing that! So much so that for me true lemonade is just carbonated water and lemon. I do it with oranges, grapefruits and strawberries (mashed)
Nonono
Soda/Pop is called lemonade (or limonade or variations).
Lemonade (US) aka citrus water is not necessarily called lemonade.
In parts of Scotland all fizzy sugary drinks are called “ginger” I believe, “gies a bottle ay ginger” to get a bottle of lemonade… just to muddy the (lemony) waters further
They’re called the same thing, but no one considers them to be similar.
It’s like how we use “chips” to refer to both crisps and fries. You usually know which ones it’s going to be based on context, and if it’s not clear you can always ask.
On menus and things, we typically would call it “traditional lemonade” to clarify that it’s not sprite.
Where did this bullshit come from? Sprite is not lemonade in Europe or Australia, it’s lemon and lime and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know that. There’s loads of brands of lemonade here and Australia, cloudy, traditional, clear…wtf?
Really? Because there are a lot of people who disagree with you.
From reddits Ask an Australian
Wikipedia saying " In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Central Europe, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, a carbonated lemonade soft drink is more common. Despite the differences between the drinks, each is known simply as “lemonade” in countries where it is dominant."
Quora saying “Lemonade” in Australia normally refers to a clear, carbonated, lemon-flavored beverage similar to 7-Up. “Lemon squash” is a cloudy version of the same thing (still carbonated). There’s no particular tradition of making non-carbonated lemon drinks at home, but if you did, you’d probably call it American-style lemonade."
My Australian buddy who lives in the UK
However I did goof on it not being available. That I’ll edit. But the rest of it seems to hold up…
I see on the Wikipedia article it seems to say that lemonade in the USA is flat, not fizzy? I think this is where I confused your question and we got our wires crossed. Anything that ended “ade” in the UK is a fizzy drink, like a pop/soda. Lemonade, cherryade, orangeade etc. Schweppes, Barr’s etc make lemonade like that, clear, sweet fizzy and just lemon flavour.
I can’t think of a drink that’s fresh lemon juice as described on wiki over here. There is squash, or cordial, diluted juice with water. But lemon wasn’t common or popular to the best of my knowledge. I’ll look when I’m in asda the morn now though, just to see for curiosity.
Well why the country fried fuck doesn’t everyone drink uslemonade it’s delicious. Keeps the scurvy down too.
After reading that article I have to say it looks amazing
We have a lemon tree right next to our kitchen window and we just open the window to pick lemons for lemonade. I’m kinda spoiled. Still gotta boil my own corn syrup tho.
That’s amazing, where I live these days I’d need a heated polytunnel or greenhouse to grow lemons. I’ve found an online recipe though and I’m def going to try making real lemonade.
No one would call it “American style lemonade”. It would just be home made lemonade or something similar. Also we have a massive tradition of making non carbonated drinks at home. Australian kids grow up drinking cordial, which are pre-made, very sugary, mostly fruit flavoured, and are made by mixing the cordial and water.
I grew up in the UK, lived down under too for just over 5 years, maybe I just missed the Australians calling it lemonade, as it was always lemon and lime with those I know. Was definitely lemon and lime in the UK and not considered the same as lemonade, sprite became the cooler choice over 7up when I was teenager in the 80’s. If you asked for lemonade you wouldn’t get either of those, or folk would check if sprite was okay instead. Maybe it is generational, the young crew do something different, or maybe a lot of people can’t detect lime flavour…I dunno, but in my experience they’re not treated the same. Just one Internet strangers experience though.
You’re not thinking of lemon lime and bitters, are you?
I’m not dude, sprite especially, literally says lemon and lime on the label. I had no idea this was something people didn’t know.
I know it says Lemon lime on the label. Doesn’t change the fact that us Aussies call it lemonade.
I dunno, I’ve been out of the country for the past 12 or so years so maybe things have changed significantly over that time, but for my entire life up until I left, everyone calls Sprite & similar drinks lemonade. No one I know ever made the distinction between Sprite (lemon-lime) and something like Schweppes lemonade (Lemon only), they were just both lemonade, unless you specifically wanted a specific brand.
Fair play, I’m not native and was only there a short while quite a long time ago. So my experience could very well not have been typical.
Yeah, sprite is lemonade. Not sure what the other commenter was on about smh
Maybe it’s regional or generational?
I’ve always known sprite and similar lemon flavored soft drinks to be lemonade, though there is a lime version.
I’m sure I remember seeing lemonade on sprite packaging when I was younger, and it looks like Google agrees with my memory. Not sure why these other guys are arguing with you.
Obviously the same for all the other brands as well (Schweppes lemonade is very much a carbonated soft drink).
In thinking as an immigrant I just missed this fact in my time down in oz.
Maybe it’s generational, I’m pretty old and sprite is and always was lemon and lime, it’s why it’s green and yellow… it became popular in the uk when I was young as a 7up competitor which stopped being “cool” in the 80s though it had been more popular before that. Lived in UK, France, Canada and Australia… so its just personal experience.
It’s not though, it’s lemon and lime. Lemonade is just fizzy lemon…Barr’s make a great lemonade, Schweppes is decent. if you go for a lemonade and orange or lemonade and lime in a pub you generally don’t get sprite/7up. If its all they’ve got they’ll check with you that that’s OK, like if they have Pepsi instead of Coke.
This is…not true
Could just be the language. In Finnish “limonadi” is soda, though you barely hear that word nowadays. Hence, not hard to think that sprite is lemonade.
Here in germany every sweetened, carbonated beverage is called “lemonade”
Go to Glasgow and its called a “bottle of ginger”