OH MY GOD.
So today I found out that people outside the US use the word lemonade to refer to carbonated canned soda with lemon flavoring.
WTF they think Beyoncé named her album after sprite.
This.
No.
Guys no, no no no BEYONCÉ DID NOT NAME HER MASTERPIECE AFTER FUCKING SPRITE OKAY there is like a whole beverage culture in the American south that revolves around the ritual of juicing fresh lemons and mixing them with sugar and icy water.
Lemonade is what you drink in the middle of an unbearably hot and muggy Alabama summer afternoon – a moment of sweet relief from the exhaustion of hard labor.
Lemonade is the liquid distillation of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice when she sings “Summertime.”
It’s not sprite, okay.
I just want to add to this that Beyoncé gave us her grandmother’s lemonade recipe in the final portion of her visual album: http://www.popsugar.com/food/Beyonce-Lemonade-Recipe-41082067
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