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Thread #57813   Message #914158
Posted By: Mark Cohen
19-Mar-03 - 11:42 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: SIMPLE unaccompanied crowd-pleasers?
Schantieman, you're right, I learned it with 5...6...7...pop.

Never knew they had "pop" in the UK. Carbonated beverages are generally "soda" in the Eastern US, "pop" in the Midwest and West...though there are many local variations. (For example, in Boston, it's "tonic".)

And did I understand you correctly--is "lemonade" now the generic British term for carbonated beverages? If not, what is?   Here, lemonade is a non-carbonated beverage made from water, sugar, and lemon juice. Or, as is more likely these days...

Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate (To Preserve Freshness), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Glycerol Ester Of Wood Rosin, Natural Flavor, Yellow 5, Ascorbyl Palmitate (Preserves Freshness)

(from the label of "Country Time Lemonade" -- Country Time is a registered trademark of Kraft General Foods, Inc., White Plains, NY, in case you were wondering. And I found that on the Web...I NEVER buy the stuff!)

Aloha,
Mark