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" Lemonade in Ireland (like in England) is a generic term for a fizzy drink."

Not strictly true really.. if I asked for lemonade in England, I would get just that... lemonade: The lemon flavoured sparkling drink, any other varities of lemonade would tend to have to be ordered specifically.

If I asked for lemonade and got cherryade, I'd be a little surprised...

Perhaps the author meant to write

"Lemonade in Ireland is a generic term for a lemon-flavoured fizzy (sparkling) drink"

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[edit] Difference between red and white lemonade

So what's the difference between red and white lemonade? Is red lemonade related to pink lemonade? Njál 01:46, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Neighbours

I am pretty sure the drink Zeke got hopped up on was (though it may have been referred to as 'red lemonade'), in fact, 'red creaming soda'. This is an Australian name for a raspberry/vanilla tasting red soft drink. If the term 'red lemonade' was used, that may have been to avoid concerns about using Cadbury-Schweppes' trademark 'red creaming soda'. I'd LOVE it if you could get real Irish red lemonade in Australia. Paddy's and red was a favourite drink in Ireland for me. Slaintè! BaHaReep 07:23, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

In Australia, Lemonade is unflavoured - it is NOT lemon-flavoured. I'm pretty sure that it is the same in UK.

- It's not the same in the UK. UK Lemonade is exactly what it says, Lemon flavoured. Otherwise it'd be sparkling water.

- If lemonade was "unflavoured", I dare say you'd have a tough time differentiating it from soda water/seltzer/sparkling mineral water. Lemonade in Australia has a flavour similar to a sharp lemon/lime flavour (though, I admit, different to both "lemon-flavoured" and "lime-flavoured" soft drinks. P.S. Please sign your comments. Thanks! BaHaReep 08:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

But back to the point - what does Red Lemonade actually TASTE like?

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OK, here's my 2 euro-cents:

1. The generic name for fizzy drinks in Ireland isn't "lemonade", it's "minerals".

2. Red lemonade is colored with cochineal, according to a bottle of Tesco's red lemonade I have in front of me here.

According to the Cantrell site, TK (Taylor Keith) originally invented the drink:

http://www.cantrell.ie/our_brands/tk.htm

3. By all accounts, it's a lemon flavour drink, but I think there may a hint of something else. While I doubt the dye used would change the flavour, it's a possibility I guess.

P. --Paul Moloney 15:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


-I'd just like to point out that as a UK citizen, I am sure 'lemonade' would get you either traditional yellow-coloured lemon-flavoured carbonated drink, or a server would say "Will be Sprite/7-Up/..." be OK?" Definitely Schweppes Lemonade is very common in bars as a mixer, is colourless, but has a distinct lemon flavour. Nobody uses lemonade as a term for carbonated drinks, we say 'softdrink' or 'fizzy drink'. 128.111.179.101 21:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Edit

Hi, Changed quite a bit, so I'll run through it here:

  • removed the bits about minerals and lemonade being generic terms for anything. Although they both are, in my experience, I don't think it's relevant here
  • added what flavour the red is. open to correction on this, but I'm almost certain it's just a lemon flavoured drink. White and red do taste different.
  • removed the unnecessary distinction between three different whiskeys mixed with red lemonade. Whiskey and red. We get it. Noted the particular popular brands, though.
  • removed 'kick in the bollocks'. Seems like bollocks to me, frankly, can't find any reference to it anywhere that didn't originate in Wikipedia, have never heard of it, and don't think it's notable enough for a mention if it exists, and has an expletive in the name for an article on a soft drink
  • would also like to remove the 'disputed' tag, but not sure why it's there, so won't for the time being.

There we go. 199.43.14.101 12:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Brown lemonade

I added the bit about the brown variety which is common in Northern Ireland instead of red.


[edit] An edit

I'm from Northern Ireland and have came across red lemonade, brown lemonade and white lemonade, all three are quite common. I made an edit that TK is widely available in the North along with the other brands mentioned such as C&C.

[edit] So what makes it red?

Do you add something to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.126.75.181 (talk) 03:18, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lemonade colours

This article says brown lemonade has "a different taste to the white variety", but the Brown Lemonade article says "There is very little difference in taste between the two". Can somebody who knows get it right? 68.238.229.137 (talk) 18:20, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] P.S.

Can someone make a decision for consistency in titling and either change Brown Lemonade to brown lemonade or change red lemonade to Red Lemonade? 68.238.229.137 (talk) 18:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)