Talk:Red lemonade

It's Tizer!!!

If you're from the UK and want to know what red lemonade tastes like go down to your local corner shop and buy a bottle of Tizer. The difference is about as marked as that of Coca Cola and Pepsi... you can taste that they're not the exactly alike but in essence they are the same drink...

Not true, unless you also want to group in all other lemony flavoured soft drinks or you were born without taste buds.

" 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"

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)

This is the big question, which cannot be explained it seems. I always imagine red lemonade to be lucasade without the extra glucose and caffeine. It certainly tastes of more than just lemons, but that could be psychosomatic due to the colour. 83.70.170.48 (talk) 09:59, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

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)

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)

Brown lemonade

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

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.

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)

I'm wondering the same thing. I came to this page to find out what red lemonade is, and all I found out is that it's a soft drink (I'd guessed that) that might taste 'different' from white lemonade. (I say might because the same sentence also says that brown lemonade tastes different, while the brown lemonade page says it doesn't.) Then there's the unsubstantiated claim that people miss it, which implies that there's something about it that people miss, and a myth about the chemicals in it with no information to refute it. Why was red lemonade created? Why is it only in Ireland? Is it just white lemonade with red food colouring, or does it have some kind of flavour from red fruit or another red chemical? What flavour? --Angelastic (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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)

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)

Yes, Lemonade should be capitalised - it's the name of something. Will get on with it!--Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:20, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Existence in Scotland

I'm not sure why the reference to red and brown lemonade being available in Scotland keeps getting removed. All three varieties of lemonade are readily available in Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland and Scotland, as anyone who has lived or travelled throughout the three countries can confirm. —Preceding unsigned comment added by PentneySam (talk • contribs) 22:59, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

I reckon it is about the same as the existence of Irn Bru in Ireland: It might be not be imppossible to buy but it is rare. -- Horkana (talk) 14:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

References

Trying to dig up some references, struggling to find anything direct enough. This article about an Irishman who became a chef in America notes that he sells (amongst) other things "red lemonade", which is an indicator of it's status among expatriates.

A travel article from iexplore talks about mixing red lemonade with whiskey (common enough) and more unusually mixing red lemonade with Smithwicks to make a shandy which isn't something I'd heard of before.

An article in the Irish Independent talks about the EU regulating red lemonade Quote:"Regulating the bend in bananas and the colour of red lemonade gives EU bureaucrats a bad name." Which indirectly gives you some idea where the notion of red lemonade being banned is coming from, there was some change made in the dye at some point, I believe Cochineal was or is used. -- Horkana (talk) 14:49, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

An older article discussing Euromyths should be good enough. -- Horkana (talk) 14:52, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Lots of citations needed. This is a very generalised, unsourced article.

I've added a few "citation needed"s here.

• Who says that red lemonade is popular? Is there a survey? Sales Stats?
• Who says that it's a popular mixer? Is there a survey? Sales Stats?
• Where is there evidence of the urban myth about red-headed children and red lemonade?
• How "popular" are any of these urban myths?

I also removed "officially" from the phrase "officially lemon-flavoured". There is no office charged with certifying whether or not a soft drink is lemon-flavoured.

I structured the two urban myths into a list.

Some of the paragraph in relation to Brown Lemonade seems superfluous. The existence of Brown Lemonade, its lemon flavour, and its difference in flavour to white and red lemonade are all covered in the opening paragraph. Also, why is it being discussed in an article on Red Lemondade, shouldn't be a linked reference to a page on Brown Lemonade?

Gobbleblotchit (talk) 10:18, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Re-Added This

Looks like this page was merged into Lemonade back in 2016, but none of the information in this page was carried over.

It was very confusing going through the Irish Cuisine page and finding that its links both to this page and to the page for Brown Lemonade both went to Lemonade without that page actually having any information on the two drinks.

80.2.32.198 (talk) 16:21, 3 February 2020 (UTC)