Oct 13 2008
in which food has weird names
When is lemonade not lemonade? When you’re in Britain, apparently.
Everyone in my flat went out for dinner at a Mexican restaurant tonight (yeah, I thought it was a little weird too), which overall wasn’t bad, although it was too dim in there to see my food properly and it was sort of an odd mix of stuff. They had lemonade listed on the menu, though, which I ordered mostly because it was cheaper than juice but also because I hadn’t had near enough to drink that day (there seems to be no place anywhere to fill up a freaking water bottle in town–if the faucets aren’t filtered the water isn’t really drinkable, so they say, and in the Castle Mall there weren’t any drinking fountains and the only water in the bathrooms was hot). And what he brought me did not look or smell like lemonade, and when I tasted it, it was…Sprite. With a lemon slice tossed in.
“When you order lemonade, you get Sprite,” my flatmate told me. I was baffled. Lemonade is lemonade, surely–a drink made from squeezed lemons, plus a lot of sugar… “Oh, like yellow lemonade?” she said. “That’s traditional lemonade.”
The cookie/biscuit thing, okay, but lemonade? Seriously? This I do not understand.
