Pink lemonade (that’s American style lemonade) is made by adding a bit of grape juice to regular yellow lemonade. This produces the pink color and slightly different flavor.
Of course, the pink lemonade you get from soda fountains has probably never seen a real lemon or grape.
A larger shandy in the UK is a shandy which comes in a pint glass. Adding white lemonade doesn’t increase the size.
I don’t know about Canada, but in the US lemonade isn’t carbonated at all.
Few, who’d have though this would be a controversy.
Anyway, I am originally from Holland and I think it is somewhat like the French situation. “Limoenade” is used for all fizzy softdrinks, including Sprite and 7-UP. I even think squashes (the stuff you add water too, I mean) woul qualify (but not proper fruit juice).
Because the above blanket term I think “lemonade”, as it is used here in England(where I am writing from), would in Dutch be “cirtroen-limonade”, i.e. lemon(flavoured) lemonade!
Haha, lemon-lemonade… it’s like in some parts of the Southern US, where they call ALL soda “Coke.”
Yankee Customer: I’d like a Coke, please.
Southern Waitress: You want Pepsi Coke or Orange Coke?
Yankee Customer (pause to let options sink in): Pepsi Coke, please.
Just to clarify this important issue:
PookahMacPhellimey is correct: in Britain, if you ask for “lemonade”, you’ll get a clear, sweet, fizzy drink with a slight lemon flavour. Sprite and 7 Up are lemon-and-lime flavoured, and hence not considered lemonade; a shandy is beer and lemonade in varying proportions, definitely NOT beer and 7 Up (yeuch). “Cloudy” lemonade is sold in some supermarkets, but it’s always called “Traditional Lemonade” or “Ye Olde Fashioned Lemonayde” or whatever.
The way I figure it (I’m in Canada. btw), Sprite and 7-Up are just that - Sprite and 7-Up. They fall in the “Pop” or “soda” category, just like Coke, Pepsi, etc. Artificial, carbonated drinks.
Lemonade is, to me, the result of a lemon juice, sugar and water mixture. This is usually non-carbonated (what i buy in the store, such as McCain), unless I make it at home: Simple Syrup - 1/3 lemon juice, 1/3 sugar, 1/3 hot water. Mix it all up. Into a glass, pour 1/3 syrup, 2/3 club soda. Enjoy.
As for shandys- the only ones I’ve ever served (4 years of waitressing) had 1:1 or 2:1 beer (whichever kind people want) and ginger beer. Occasionnally, people ask for gingerale instead. Never heard of it with any kind of lemonade.