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Lemonade refers to one of several beverages.
- In the U.S. and Canada it refers to an uncarbonated soft drink made of a mixture of lemon juice, sugar, and water.
- In the UK, it more often refers to a carbonated (fizzy) drink, sometimes lemon-flavoured, comparable to but excluding the brands 7-Up or Sprite, which 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, where it is generally known as "real lemonade".
- In France, as in UK, it refers to a carbonated drink, such as Lorina or Pschitt.
- 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 lemon flavoured and carbonated drink or lemon flavoured "soft drink" such as Sprite. Generally lemonade refers to chemically induced lemon flavours while lemon squash refers to real lemon.
- 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.
North America
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. About three quarters the volume of sugar is likely to be better to the taste of most people. It is traditionally served cold, preferably with ice.
In many upscale supermarkets, tall bottles of supposedly European lemonade can be purchased. These are always carbonated or “sparkling.” Often, these 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. A popular urban legend about pink lemonade is that it was first made when a circus owner could only find one source of water to make lemonade: that which the clowns used to wash off their make-up.
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 (referred to as "half and half"). Any bottled beverage with any amount of tea is labelled "iced tea", no matter how close it may be to lemonade.
In the US, it is most common for children and teenagers to sell lemonade on the streets. A lot of young people in the US start "lemonade businesses" as a young child. For an adult, however, it is only sold in stores, although on one episode of The Apprentice, the first task was to sell lemonade on the streets of New York City in the traditional style of children.
United Kingdom
In 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 varient of Lemonade which is actually peach flavoured ade. The "Peach-Ade" containins no sugar. There has been some controversy over its levels of E951 additive which has been related to causing cancer. Most soft drinks contain this chemical but only in small quantities.
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