Black and tan; shandy

[Aaron E. Drews]

on 10/5/00 6:30 PM, A. Vine wrote:


>
> Actually, some English use the term "lemonade" for "soda" in general.  The
> most
> popular soda is a lemon-lime flavor, but I don't think the term exclusively
> means that.  I think that doubles for German "Limonade" = "soda", but I'm not
> sure about Italian.
>

"soda" (water and carbon dioxide, no flavors) is called "soda" here.  If you
want a scotch and soda for example, you won't get a whisky and lemonade.

There's also "juice" in Scotland, which is the equivalent of Kathleen
Miller's Coke/pop/soda.

--Aaron


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