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Hehe, sorry for the language confusion and derailing the topic! I'm not a native speaker and have always assumed that "lemonade" can be used as a generic term f

Hehe, sorry for the language confusion and derailing the topic! I'm not a native speaker and have always assumed that "lemonade" can be used as a generic term for all carbonated soft drinks, cola drinks included. I think my confusion comes from the Finnish loan word "limonadi" which is an umbrella term for carbonated sweet drinks. And now checking what real lemonade looks like -- I think we'd call that lemon soda but it wouldn't definitely belong in the "limonadi" category. So a bit confusing inversion of terms during some cultural adoption! Edit: I see the usage is closer to UK naming convention, so maybe that's the history.

losvedir 5y ago
Fascinating, thanks! Yeah, here in the US, I don't think you can call a carbonated beverage "lemonade", even if it has lemons in it. That would be "lemon soda", I suppose, though I don't think I've ever seen that. Lemonade is a mixture of still water and lemons, sometimes sweetened, with ice, that you drink out on the porch during summer in the afternoon. Your question hit me like: "does 'wine' always mean 'beer', in Finland, or only sake (rice wine)?" I knew there must be a culturally different usage of language somewhere but I had no idea where! Turns out it was lemonade that was different. TIL that other places have carbonated lemon drinks.