Just wondering if people in Britain consider Sprite to be lemonade? I wasn’t available there when I lived there. I’ve always considered 7UP to be lemonade and presume sprite would be the same.
Incase you’re wondering, lemonade in North America is very similar to lemon squash, usually with some real lemon pulp in it.
I tend to think of both Sprite and 7-up strictly in terms of their trade names - insofar as they belong to a single defining category, that category is “fizzy pop”. “Lemonade”, to me, calls to mind the cloudy yellow-greeny stuff that shows some sign of having been near a lemon at some time of its life.
But I am only one amongst millions of 'Er Majesty’s loyal subjects…
What Steve said. Sprite is, well, Sprite.
According to the book Of God, Country, and Coca Cola (a wonderful history of the Big Brown Drink), Coca Cola had a long uphill battle against the authorities in France, who insisted on labelling all soft drinks as “limonades”. Coke insisted that it was not a “lemonade”, and eventually won their case. Maybe Spritre in Britain suffers the same fate.
To me (and, I suspect, to the FDA) “Lemonade” is a drink made from lemon juice, water, and sugar. Seven up, Sprite, and other such drinks are made from lemon and lime citrus oils, and contain no juice. Also, they’re carbonated and contain phosphoric acid. Very different stuff.
Sprite is closer to Lemonade than 7-Up - at least in my mind. 7-Up is more of an undefined “Citus” flavour than Sprite which is distincly “Lemony”.
True LEMONADE is cloudy - as described above…
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Unless of course you live in Ireland where you can buy
“Red Lemonade”.
Yup. Red. Never seen it anywhere else. No idea what’s in it.
Tastes good as I recall and can be used to make a “shandy” from an ale. Someone could perhaps enlighten me?
And while im posting I just have to share what is perhaps the best bit of toilet grafitti I have ever. Written on condom machine …
ahem…
“In case of Pregnancy please insert baby for refund”
Shandy is just lager topped up with lemonade. Maybe 80%/20% split, IIRC.
In America we have pink lemonade and “ruby red” grapefruit juice. Not sure how or why we have pink lemonade. It’s a little sweeter than regular lemon-colored lemonade but it’s just as common (at least in Ohio). Sometimes a waitress will even ask if “pink lemonade is okay” when I order lemonade with a meal. As if I’d be offended by the color…
interesting, I’d have said that shandy is half and half; 80/20% would be a ‘Lager top’ (very 80’s)
There are such things as pink-fleshed lemons, but I’m not sure if that’s got anything to do with pink lemonade (IIRC there’s a snopes article and a few threads here about the origin of pink lemonade - some dubious story about the first pink lemonade having been made from water in which a red pair of shiorts were soaked)
Wow what a great typo. Does that mean two shirts or one pair of shorts? 
In Australia:
Lemonade is clear. So yes, Sprite and 7up qualify.
Lemon Squash is the yellowish stuff, and is usually only mildly carbonated. It’s pitched as a thirst quencher towards the adult male market. Both are pretty artificial looking.
Schweppes is now marketing Traditional Lemonade which has an in-between colour, and has bits of lemon in it.
oh, just some gestalt one-price garment?
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A larger shandy here is understood to be Larger with white lemonade.
However you can have an ale shandy which is ale(not larger)
with red lemonade.
When we say red we mean red not pink.I understand pink lemonade but red is a different kettle of fish altogether. For some reason Tartazine springs to mind as a component but Im going to have to check.
http://www.huguenot.ie/services/brands/mixers.html
The bottle in the centre is what we call red lemonade.back right is white lemonade.
That’s pretty much as I categorize it…
The reason it’s an issue is because one of the drinks I like it Southern Comfort & lemonade. At home though (Canada) I have to ask for a Southern & 7UP or Southern & Sprite… otherwise they haven’t got a clue what I mean.
These guys tell a company what they can call their product?
Sheesh.