Lemonade
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Lemonade is a soft drink made with lemons:
- In the UK, lemonade is usually fizzy (carbonated), and again made from lemon juice, sugar or other sweetener, and water. The brand-name soft drinks 7-Up and Sprite are lemon-and-lime flavoured. The combination of lemonade and beer produces a shandy. The drink that Americans call lemonade is relatively rare in the UK.
- In France, as in the UK, it (in French "limonade") refers to a carbonated drink, such as Lorina or Pschitt.
- In Finland, lemonade (in Finnish "limonadi" or "limu") generally refers to any Coca-Cola like carbonated soft drink. One example is the "Omena Limonadi", which directly translated is "Apple Lemonade" in english.
- In Germany "Limonade" or "Limo" refers to any carbonated soft drink, especially sweet lemon-flavored drinks, which are sometimes referred to as "süßes Sprudel". The combination of beer and this type of lemonade produces a radler (southern Germany)/an Alsterwasser (northern Germany). The combination of white wine and this type of lemonade produces a "Limoschoppen" or "Süßgespritzter".
- In Australia and New Zealand, it refers to a carbonated beverage that is lemon flavoured, colourless and transparent such as Sprite. The term "lemon squash" refers to lemon soft drinks with a cloudy appearance (sometimes due to a small percentage of real lemon juice) e.g. Solo or Lift.
- In the Netherlands it refers to any fruit concentrate cordial that is diluted with water.
- In the Hong Kong Cha chaan tengs, it may refer to a drink which is made by sweetening water with syrup, followed by adding few slices of lemon (檸檬水 Lit. Lemon water).
- In Ireland, it refers to the carbonated, lemon-flavoured soft drink but is further sub-divided into 'white lemonade' and 'red lemonade'. White lemonade equates to the colourless fizzy lemonade common in many countries, while (fizzy) Red lemonade is particular to Ireland.
- In India, lemonade typically matches the American recipe of lemon juice, sugar and cold water, and is known as nimbu pani'.
- In Brazil, it refers to a drink made of a shake of unpeeled lemons, ice, cold water and sugar. Sometimes it is called "Limonada Suíça" (English: Swiss lemonade).
North America
Image:Limonadedmg.jpg An approximate recipe for U.S. and Canadian lemonade is to mix equal volumes of lemon juice and sugar and add water to taste, approximately four times as much water as lemon juice.
In many upscale supermarkets, tall bottles marked as European lemonade can be purchased. These are always carbonated or “sparkling.” Often such lemonades are translucent yellow, more like North American lemonade, though there are occasionally transparent and pink varieties as well.
A pink lemonade variation can be produced by adding red food coloring or grenadine syrup. Traditionally, beet juice provided the pink color; so little is needed that the flavor of the drink remains largely unchanged. This beverage may have originated as a replacement for "Indian lemonade," a cold infusion of red sumac berries, sometimes sweetened with maple sugar. Sumac beverages have a taste and appearance similar to pink lemonade, and were popular with Native Americans and early European settlers.
While mint, borage, lavender, and even alcohol can be added to lemonade without changing its name in American parlance, the term is more specific in the U.S. than in some of the countries listed above. Substituting limes or oranges for lemons produces limeade or orangeade, respectively. Sweet tea, the Southern variant of iced tea, is often mixed with lemonade creating what is referred to as a "half and half" or an Arnold Palmer.
In the United States, it is common for children to sell lemonade on the streets as a first business, symbolic of the American entrepreneurial spirit. This is captured in the video game Lemonade Tycoon, and used to teach the basics of commerce in earlier Lemonade Stand educational software.
Some adults have continued to capitalize on the idea, setting up traveling booths at fairs and festivals. A suprising amount of money can be made over a weekend from a case of lemons, ice, sugar, water, cups, a juicer, and a simple tent.
United Kingdom
In Great Britain in the 1970s lemonade was not considered a glamorous product. This was deliberately parodied in a television commercial for R. White's lemonade, in which a man sneaks downstairs in his pajamas singing "I'm a secret lemonade drinker — I'm trying to give it up but it's one of those nights." When his wife catches him at the refrigerator he sheepishly offers her a glass. The commercial was a huge success and ran for almost a decade, although later attempts to revive the campaign were less successful.
Although it's fairly well known that Ross MacManus (father of Declan MacManus aka Elvis Costello) was the original voice of The Secret Lemonade Drinker, it's not widely known that the tune was actually composed by Bob Holness of Blockbusters fame.
There is also a variant of Lemonade which is actually peach flavoured ade. The "Peach-Ade" containins no sugar. There has been some controversy over its levels of E951 (Aspartame) artificial sweetener, a possible carcinogen. Many soft drinks contain this chemical, but only in small quantities.
See also
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