You're just wrong. Don't @ me

If lemonade tastes the same to you as sprite, you need to go to the doctor or maybe the hospital because something is very wrong

Because what we call "lemonade" in Europe is not the same drink as what is called "lemonade" in the US, although we usually have our own variation (citronnade in France) that corresponds to the American one.
- We know what you call it, you're just fucking wrong.
- What's lemonade in the EU, then?
  Or rather, what do you call water, lemon juice and sugar blended together?
It's more that they're straight up called the same thing in those areas for some strange reason.
- May have been from back in the day when sodas were still made from carbonating different kinds of fruit juices. Drinks like fanta were a lot more like sparkling lemonade or orange juice than they are now.
- Where did this bullshit come from? Sprite is not lemonade in Europe or Australia, it's lemon and lime and I don't know anyone who doesn't know that. There's loads of brands of lemonade here and Australia, cloudy, traditional, clear...wtf?
- Nonono
  Soda/Pop is called lemonade (or limonade or variations).
  Lemonade (US) aka citrus water is not necessarily called lemonade.
- They're called the same thing, but no one considers them to be similar.
  It's like how we use "chips" to refer to both crisps and fries. You usually know which ones it's going to be based on context, and if it's not clear you can always ask.
  On menus and things, we typically would call it "traditional lemonade" to clarify that it's not sprite.
- In parts of Scotland all fizzy sugary drinks are called "ginger" I believe, "gies a bottle ay ginger" to get a bottle of lemonade... just to muddy the (lemony) waters further
Here in germany every sweetened, carbonated beverage is called "lemonade"
- Go to Glasgow and its called a "bottle of ginger"

So for the folks that call lemon-lime soda "lemonade" (instead of the non-carbonated drink consisting of water, sugar, and lemon juice), is the idiom "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" just not a thing? Or is it an idiom that is in use but it just doesn't really make a whole lot of sense?

That idiom only exists in media from the USA. I heard that idiom for the first time in Portal2.
- Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
I mean you still need lemons to make "lemon soda" as you call it.
- People don't usually make sprite in their house.

This whole thread is blowing my mind

This is an argument I have with my French girlfriend all the time. Their sweet soda they call lemonade doesn't even fucking taste like lemons!!!

On the other hand Orangina is the ultimate orange soda so it's a draw really
- Ooooh!!! Oooh!!!! I've had Orangina in Italy and it's made from real Italian oranges with real orange juice and it's the best God damn Orangina I've EVER HAD!

There are only 2 sweet fizzy drinks in Europe. Coke (obvious) and lemonade (everything else that isn't coke). Easy, simple. We do have lemonade flavors. Orange, lemon (citron), etc lemonade. But they're all lemonade.

The Scots will be upset by this.

Mate, we're well aware sprite isn't lemonade, that's why we have Solo, Lift and pub squash

To be fair, they didn't say NZ.

NZ is way more like Europe than Sprite is like lemonade
New Zealand is just cold Australia

WTF? Where in europe do people say that? Limonade is fuzzy water lemon, and sugar. Sprite is a crap soda beverage. They do not even compare

It's the UK. We just can't handle the fizz and the lemon at the same time. it's too spicy for us.
Somehow over time lemonade became to mean the same as soda here in Belgium. Probably through being introduced to American lemonade and Soda at the same time.
Most carbonated fruit drinks are called lemonade. Coka Cola is called just Cola. Sprite, Fanta and similar drinks are all lemonades here.

Yet their Orangina is literly orange spritzer?

Oranussy

I have it on good authority that the land of stale tea has fizzy lemonade rather than normal lemonade.

They also do not have Arnold Palmers.

Lemon squash is best anyway