Why lemon aide? Why not lemon juice?!
I know, silly question right? I'm just wondering if someone can give me a sensible answer as to how the 'aide' thing came to be, and what it means. Is it an actual aid for something, maybe a lemon? If so, why does it have a silent 'e' at the end? Was it something the French started? Would the English translation be 'lemon help'? Hmmm.
Perhaps it's because to most of us 'lemon juice' is that stuff in the little plastic lemon that we squeeze into our tea, or squeezed from an actual lemon.
Thanks!
Answers: Why do we call one of our favorite summertime drinks 'lemon aide'? We don't call orange juice 'orange aide', or grapefruit juice 'grapefruit aide'.
I know, silly question right? I'm just wondering if someone can give me a sensible answer as to how the 'aide' thing came to be, and what it means. Is it an actual aid for something, maybe a lemon? If so, why does it have a silent 'e' at the end? Was it something the French started? Would the English translation be 'lemon help'? Hmmm.
Perhaps it's because to most of us 'lemon juice' is that stuff in the little plastic lemon that we squeeze into our tea, or squeezed from an actual lemon.
Thanks!
I don't really have a great answer other than I love pink lemonade, and didn't know that canadians spelled it "aide". But I think that if it were called " lemon drink" or something weird like that, it wouldn't sound right. Hmmm learn something new everyday!
I think cos juice is juice straight from the actual fruit, and not very pleasant in larger quantities. I think the aide is because the lemon is aided by water and sugar to make a more pleasurable drinking experience for all.
maybe it depends on the region you live in.. I live in Saudi Arabia and we call sweetened lemon juice, just that.. lemon juice...
"Lemonade" is from the French, but it originally wasn't just lemon juice, sugar and water. In the 17th century French chefs put carbonic acid in the drink to give it a little fizz. Later the British began putting baking soda, creme of tartar, and all sorts of strange chemicals in it to give it a kick. :-p
(I'm kind of curious about the Southern version of it, though. The best lemonade I ever had was made by a lady from Texas, and she wouldn't give away the family recipe.)
I would guess the silent "e" is from the French origination of the word. In French the "-ade" suffix is usually applied to any beverage or food that is a "mix," for example, remoulade.
In California we used to pick lemons by the sackfull off of the tree in the backyard. That l'il ol' plastic lemon sold in grocery stores was like wax fruit or plastic flowers: not even close to the real stuff.
Because lemonade (That's the correct spelling in U.S.A.) is not pure juice. It's actually a cocktail drink or what is known as a cooler. The ade (aide) portion of the word probably refers to the sweetening required to make the drink
Most people make this drink with sugar, water and lemon juice, however you can make all natural apple lemonade with no added processed sugar simply by combining the juice of four sweet apples with the juice of one lemon. You'll need a juice extractor to do this.
This way of making it would actually be an apple-lemon juice cooler, not lemonade per say.
The suffix -ade comes from French roots of the words and similar words. (remoulade)
And you're wrong, to most of us lemon juice is not the processed, reconstituted junk that comes in that plastic lemon container or green bottle. To most of us lemon juice is the juice that comes out of the fruit that we pick off the tree in our back yard or buy in the grocery store from the fruit shelf
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I can only go by what our U.S.A. dictionaries tell us
And sorry, I didn't see your last statement at first
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonade
It probably tells ALL and MORE than you'll ever want to know about lemonade. It seems as if this drink originated from our French cousins. What I want to know is why some countries call carbonated lemonade, lemonade(aide) and not lemon soda. That's what the U.S.A. calls the carbonated version
Okay, not a silly question. Aide is because you don't drink straight lemon juice. It is "aided" by water and sugar. You use about 2 lemons per 2 quarts of water and add sugar. For orange juice, you just drink the juice, you only add water to the concentrated forms. That is why it is called lemon Aide. ACTUALLY, THE LEMON AIDES THE WATER.