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.
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DragonTypeWyvern 27 points 3 years ago
We know what you call it, you're just fucking wrong.
RickyRigatoni 12 points 3 years ago
These are the same people who drive on the wrong side of the road and weigh themselves in stones.
TheDarksteel94 -2 points 3 years ago
Most of our schools are still safe tho :)
thechadwick 2 points 3 years ago
"it's provocative, it gets the people going!"
wieson 9 points 3 years ago
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.
Snoopey 4 points 3 years ago
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.
echodot 3 points 3 years ago
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.
TonyTonyChopper 0 points 3 years ago
Coke is actually lemon flavored though
Venti 1 point 3 years ago
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
TranscendentalEmpire 15 points 3 years ago
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.
JimmyChanga 1 point 3 years ago
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
noevidenz 1 point 3 years ago
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.
JimmyChanga -6 points 3 years ago
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?
JimmyChanga 6 points 3 years ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 4 points 3 years ago
Well why the country fried fuck doesn't everyone drink uslemonade it's delicious. Keeps the scurvy down too.
Spuddlesv2 3 points 3 years ago
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.
JimmyChanga 2 points 3 years ago
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.
chumbalumber 1 point 3 years ago
Yeah, sprite is lemonade. Not sure what the other commenter was on about smh
JimmyChanga 1 point 3 years ago
gwildors_gill_slits 4 points 3 years ago
This is...not true
JimmyChanga 2 points 3 years ago
JimmyChanga 1 point 3 years ago
AnonStoleMyPants 1 point 3 years ago
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.
JimmyChanga 1 point 3 years ago
Go to Glasgow and its called a "bottle of ginger"
i_dont_want_to 31 points 3 years 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?
OtherPetard 13 points 3 years ago
That idiom only exists in media from the USA. I heard that idiom for the first time in Portal2.
Wilzax 12 points 3 years ago
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!
applebusch 18 points 3 years ago
People don't usually make sprite in their house.
cyborganism 15 points 3 years ago
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!!!
TonyTonyChopper 5 points 3 years ago
On the other hand Orangina is the ultimate orange soda so it's a draw really
cyborganism 7 points 3 years ago
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!
Firipu 10 points 3 years 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.
SimonSaysStuff 2 points 3 years ago
The Scots will be upset by this.
DumbAceDragon 2 points 3 years ago
New Zealand is just cold Australia
dodgy_bagel 5 points 3 years ago
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.
gwildors_gill_slits 1 point 3 years ago
Lemon squash is best anyway
TheGrandNagus 2 points 3 years ago
But the UK likes spice a lot though? More so than anywhere else in Europe, even Spain.
Spicy curries are massive here and nowhere else in the continent. And let's not even talk about English mustard compared to other mustards.
Venti 5 points 3 years ago
I don't doubt it, both english mustard and horseradish are hella hot (and good), but for me Hungary takes the lead. They love hot paprika and use it in almost every dish, It's a shame its cuisine is almost unknown in western Europe.
TheGrandNagus 1 point 3 years ago
Hot paprika isn't actually spicy though
And I wouldn't say it's unknown, goulash and paprika chicken are pretty popular
Skua 3 points 3 years ago
I mean, I'm joking about that part, we're stereotyped as having bland food. I love all sorts of spicy foods, but we're also a country that devours Gregg's and Nando's. However, we definitely actually are the Europeans who are referring to Sprite and Sprite-adjacent drinks when we say "lemonade". Unfortunately.
OtherPetard 2 points 3 years ago
Somehow over time lemonade became to mean the same as soda here in Belgium. Probably through being introduced to American lemonade and Soda at the same time.
Most carbonated fruit drinks are called lemonade. Coka Cola is called just Cola. Sprite, Fanta and similar drinks are all lemonades here.
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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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