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.
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
IT IS THE SAME DAMN THING. You Yankees and your fifty brands of the same 😛
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
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?
Yes, Australians make Shandies with our carbonated soft drink lemonade, though if you’re using it as a mixer, you’re less likely to be using Sprite and more likely to be using Schweppes, which looks like this:
Like. We absolutely have a concept of flat, juice-based lemonade, but as an earlier commenter said, it’s a niche hipster speciality rather than the default, and even then, it’s still going to be premade rather than fresh.
OH GOD THAT’S WHY AMERICAN CHILDREN CAN MAKE IT AND SELL IT SO EASILY. I ALWAYS WONDERED HOW KIDS COULD MAKE A CARBONATED DRINK AT HOME.
I’m surprised that no one has started calling Americans “
niche hipsters” at this point.
I love this post. It actually makes me happy that something so simple is only a thing here when so many things have become homogenized. Also amuses me that anybody outside America (I guess?) hearing “When life gives you lemons make lemonade” is thinking it means “When life gives you lemons make fucking Sprite” lmao.
I wonder what happens if you attempt to order a pink lemonade lmao.
@flippyspoon well I’m in south America (Brazil) and lemonade is juice and sprite is soda. We also use the “when life gives you lemons” saying. Now, a question I have is; pink lemonade? Does that mean the U.S has pink lemons?
Lolz you would think so but usually pink lemonade is just lemonade with food dye in it because it’s pretty but sometimes it’s sold as “strawberry lemonade” when it’s not but actual strawberry lemonade is gooood. But as a kid I could swear that pink lemonade tasted better than regular (BECAUSE IT’S PRETTY).
When you ask for pink lemonade, it’s almost always raspberry-flavored lemonade, not strawberry. (Though it was easier to find strawberry-flavored lemonade in like, the 90s.) I’m only pedantic because I was a strawberry FIEND as a kid.
While we’re talking about lemonade, no one has mentioned Country Time, the powdered drink mix you use to make “lemonade” when you’re a kid and your mom doesn’t want to buy you the lemons to show you how to make your own lemonade. I may, uh, speak from experience on that.
Also, I know the UK and Ireland has American lemonade, but they refer to it as “cloudy lemonade,” I guess because the sugar doesn’t mix up terribly well?
as someone who works in a food industry adjacent job and is going to school for it: in Germany at least, the qualification “lemonade” ( limonade) is used instead of soda. meaning under like food laws ( not the technical term, I’m tired excuse me) in Germany sprite is lemonade. coke is lemonade. dr. pepper is lemonade. that doesn’t mean I would use the word lemonade to ask for, for example coke, in a restaurant, as it’s far too vague. if I did, I’d either get sprite, fanta or if it was a fancy place, orangina maybe. probably though they’d be asking me to specify.
the only place I know for sure I’d actually get lemonade is mc donald’s! they have this lemon kiss thing right now that’s flat, has lots of crushed ice and tastes like it’s met a lemon somewhere in the production process.
if you ask for Zitronenlimonade you’ll almost certainly get sprite, that’s the name that sprite and off-brand sprite get sold under.
I wanna go back to the person who expressed disbelief about Sprite having lime in it – the logo for Sprite is literally half a lemon and half a lime.
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