Lemonade

Lemonade refers to one of several beverages.

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• 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". 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 (??? 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.
 
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