Lmao this American girl walked up to a Hungry Jacks (Burger King) register with her drink and really, really loudly (I was at the other side of the place) proclaimed: “I asked for Lemonade, you gave me Sprite” in a really bitchy, entitled voice.
The cashier (and everyone within earshot) just looked at her like “the fuck is wrong with you”
In Australia, Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned.
Enjoy your 90c refund you cheap ass ho.
“Sprite IS lemonade as far as we’re concerned”
@fleamont can you verify?
Yeah this is correct. Lemonade is sprite. Clear fizzy liquid type thing. Solo is closer to what American lemonade is but we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade anyway so she was never going to get what she wanted lmao.
Y'ALL AIN’T GOT LEMONADE?!?!??
madness…
“we don’t actually have what you guys consider lemonade“
That entire continent exists on a different realm of existence
What the… Lmao
Why is it called lemonade then? 🤔
@casualswfan What is wrong with you guys?
IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same :P
LEMONADE AND SPRITE ARE NOTHING ALIKE
Things heating up in the drink fandom
I’m pretty sure the same is true in the UK at least was in 2010 except Sprite didn’t seem to be a common brand so I’d ask for Sprite get blank looks eventually figured out to ask for lemonade
Sprite is a recognised brand here, but it’s not omnipresent, it is also considered a brand of lemonade.
This is fucked up.
Sprite: lemon-lime soda (pop/carbonated beverage). Lemonade: lemons, water, and sugar. Still.
LEMONADE IS NOT CARBONATED WHATT HEFUCC CK ARE YOU ALL DOIGN
Living? Sensibly?
Also on what planet does Sprite have lime in it.
Sprite, the lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage, is made on Earth.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System’s four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to harbor Sprite.
The people of Earth are known as “Earthlings” or “Spriteloids” interchangeably (although not to each other).
At least in the UK, if you order lemonade you’ll sometimes get Sprite, but if it’s proper it’s a lemon soda akin to the Italian gassosa - less sweet than Sprite.
Oh shit, I’ve had gassosa, it’s AMAZING.
I just want to say that the whole ‘lemonade and Sprite are interchangeable’ is pretty common throughout Asia as well, in my experience
@bre-e-e-e what madness is this?!?!?!?!
@kingkilling-and-stormlight so… what you are all saying is. Lemonade is … not fizzy… in America?
You guys have orange juice at least, right? Grapefruit juice? In the US, Lemonade is a juice, like orange juice, but made with lemons instead of oranges. You can buy “fresh squeezed lemonade” at many restaurants and fast food venues. Typically it’s diluted a bit with sugar water, so the sour flavor of the raw lemon juice isn’t so overpowering.
In the south, it’s very common for people buy whole lemons and make their own lemonade at home using a citrus juicer.
In Germany, you’d ask for “Limonade” and yeah, you may get a Sprite or a Fanta; it’ll always be a fizzy nonalcoholic drink and usually come in lemon, lime, orange flavor. Only in healthfood or hipster establishments would it ever be an actual juice drink.
As a fan of homemade rosewater lemonade, I am twitching at the thought of sickly sweet carbonated beverages that taste like they were invented by someone who may have been in the same room as a citrus fruit once but can’t remember what it actually tastes like being called lemonade.
Wtf did y'all think beyonce was talking about????
oh wow I hadn’t even considered that. Like millions of people worldwide hearing the album title but not understanding what lemonade means even on the most superficial level.
This is so epically disturbing. Lemonade is such an integral part of spring and summertime. I just … this breaks my brain and my heart. The cultural references too. Just, all the American shows that reference lemonade and people in other countries are thinking Sprite? There’s a reason kids do freshly squeezed lemonade stands. You can’t buy it like that from a store. And there’s nothing quite like screwing it up and getting the sugar ratio wrong. And parents grinning through the too sour or too sweet mess and praising your efforts. Lemonade Is a Thing.
Wait does that mean Aussies make Shandies with sprite?????
Does this mean a significant portion of the global population don’t know what to do when life hands you lemons?
omg u sad australians, sorry that you don’t have a
this whole thread is giving me flashbacks to a conversation in high school when my friend (who was an exchange student from Germany) and i realized we had a very different understanding of the word lemonade.
The fuck America? Homemade/fresh lemonade is different to the softdrink, obviously. People do make lemonade with lemons either at home or to sell at festivals and stuff in Aus, but it’s not very common. And you can sometimes buy ‘traditional lemonade’ in bottles. You wouldn’t buy freshly squeezed orange juice at hungry jack’s, why tf would you expect fresh lemonade? @maramcgregor said you can’t buy it from a shop, so wtf did the person in Hungry Jack’s think they were buying?? Do americans have fresh lemonade at macca’s too or what?? For that matter do you have orange juice that comes out of the dispenser thing? What do you call other brands of sprite-like lemonade? What about lemon squash (lift/solo)?
Well, you can’t always buy fresh lemonade at a shop (although with the health juicing trend, it’s becoming way more prevalent) but a lot of places in the US have ready-made lemonade (still non-carbonated and juice-like, but made from a powder or frozen concentrate). You can get it almost everywhere:
So yeah, if a fast food restaurant offered lemonade, we would expect traditional (albeit not fresh) lemonade. In North America, that is a totally normal, reasonable thing to expect. And yes, MacDonald’s has Lemonade, too:
We refer to the clear soft-drink either by a brand name (Sprite, 7up, Sierra Mist) or generically as “lemon-lime soda.” These are never interchangeable with lemonade.
Now, you can get also get Limonata in the US, but that’s less readily available than regular lemonade (usually, it’s more of a “high-end” thing, though again, I think it’s becoming more common). It can also be called a “Sparkling Lemonade.” There is always a distinction between this and plain lemonade.
Finally, there’s also something called a Lemon Shakeup, which you mostly get at fairs and street festivals, that is similar to fresh lemonade, but instead of squeezing out fresh lemon juice, you take half a lemon, squeeze it a smidge, then put it in sugar water, shake it up like a martini, and pour it all over ice. Lemon Shakeups are the fucking best.
We don’t do squash/cordial, really. You can get italian sodas at coffee houses, but those are flavoured syrups vs. real fruit syrups. Our bad on that one.
Also, for the record, this is not just a US/Canada thing—India has what other nations call “cloudy” lemonade as the standard, too (and probably invented it).
