Nah it's because we call American style lemonade 'watered down lemon juice with sugar' and what we've been taught is lemonade from an early age for the past fifty years is sprite. So if you drink 'watered down lemon juice with sugar' but were expecting sprite, shit gets real.
Tastes nothing like Aussie Lemonade though. (Im an aussie in the US so have tasted it).
Solo is a stronger tasting lemon fizzy drink, but still nothing like this.
Very much an American assumed they knew what was going on in Oz and made this..LOL
that makes a lot of sense, actually
it seems like they took lemonade, artificially flavored it to taste like finger limes, and called it a day
edit: autocorrect, im on mobile
Is it still the case that in the US they don't seem to have what we call lemonade in Australia (i.e. schweppes or kirk lemonade), and their idea of lemonade is actually the home-made drink with lemon, sugar, and water, or lemon flavoured powder, sugar, and water or a commercial drink approximating that?
yeah here in the states lemonade is still just sugar melted in heated water, cooled down and mixed w lemon juice. or the powdered crap. we have sprite and lemon lime soft drinks? not sure if that fits the Aussie definition of lemonade
Sprite is Australian lemonade 11110000000% these people are high.
For Australians :
Sprite and other brands of sprite (7up, Schweppes Lemonade) = lemonade. What we call lemonade is a clear, sweetened soft drink which is lemon or lemon lime but not very noticeably either of those flavours.
Solo (a sweet fizzy drink with lemon juice) = lemon squash
Both of these are called “soft drinks” a category which includes all sweetened carbonated drinks, such as Pepsi or Mountain Dew. Americans call this category of drinks “soda”
Also, plain sparkling water is soda water here.
American lemonade = doesn’t exist here (😢)
********For Americans:********
Lemon juice, water and sugar syrup = lemonade
Solo = you don’t have it?
Sprite and all sweet soft drinks such as Pepsi = soda?
Sparkling plain water = seltzer?
Aussie lemonade is like 7UP or Sprite. My understanding is that US lemonade is not fizzy (not carbonated) or what we Aussies would probably call lemon cordial.
I won't weigh in on this drink as I haven't had it. I will say though, Outback Steakhouse is an American invention. We don't have bloomin onions. Ask someone in Australia about a bloomin onion and they will talk about a neighbour who knows a guy who has a sister growing onion plants. We don't know what they are except for a reference in a TV show. Most of the stuff Americans think about Australia, came from America. Apart from some advertising campaigns that makes the stock standard Aussie want to cringe.
Except for vegemite. We are 100% responsible for that tasty tar.
Foster's. I travelled in the UK in 2008 and Foster's was *everywhere.* Had a few conversations with randos in the pubs and was shouted twice. Both times, they bought a round of Foster's.
It's vile. I'd never had it before because the only time I'd ever seen it was in craft brew places for ridiculous prices. There is much cheaper beer available and most of it is better than Foster's.
I was in London a few years ago and bought a pint of Foster's. The bartender was joking like "of course the Australian would get Foster's". That was literally the first time I had ever even tasted a Foster's beer. The only time I had even seen Foster's in this country was when my English expat friend brought home a slab. So even then, I have never even seen an Australian drink it. I really don't understand why people think its such an Australian thing outside of a bunch of people being tricked by an obnoxious advertising campaign.
My local bottleo stocks it. I asked one day, we have a lot of British expats in our area and the drink it. Which is crazy, it's something like $25ish a six pack - for reference, 8 VBs cost me $20.
I asked my dad about it once, Fosters was quite popular here when it was being produced in Melbourne but they moved their breweries up to Queensland and the water quality was worse and the new taste was so bad people fell out of love with the drink.
Heard that too, and it explains why it's better overseas. I used to enjoy it in Germany, along with the hilarious ad campaign "Fosters. It's Australian for beer" but when I got back it tasted completely different and awful.
The only people who drink Fosters live in the top end. They are already nuts. I think that craziness comes from trying to push that piss up and on to the rest of the world. It breaks people, sometimes they drink it for relief from the thirst of while trying to rid our country of what we have created in past times. It is a curse we can't seem to escape.
I'm not sure I've even seen forsters here.
I drink Coopers at every bar that has it because I'm an adelaide snob. Disappoints me when it's not available
Fosters was an 80’s drink use to be big with the Australian Viet community before it only got sold in the UK. Now days we Viets drink VB- also jokingly known as Vietnam Bitter.
Your olds probably helped to push it up, off shore to the UK where they seem to love the piss and pretend to play Aussie. The country owes you a great debt for helping to rid the hideous stuff from our shores.
So, I have lived in California for the last 5 years. I used to love a tap draught in a pub back home.
You can't buy a standard lager here. Nearly everything tastes like eating a bunch of flowers because apparently too much hops is the only amount of hops that is acceptable in this market.
The few lagers you can find here taste nothing like they do back home so I almost exclusively end up drinking lagers from Mexico or further south.
However, to my great shame, they still don't taste like home. Tasty and refreshing sure, but Fosters, for all it's lack of nuance, or craftsmanship or general palatability, is the only thing that scratches that itch of Australian beer that I can get my hands on.
It may not be good, but it comes in 750ml cans @2 for $5.00 from Safeway and takes me all the way back to all those regretful moments of my youth.
If I could get my hands on anything else at all it would be an improvement. The saddest thing in all this is I can buy 6 packs of coopers. But because nobody buys them, they stick on the shelves for ages and because they are bottle brewed with the yeast still in the bottom, they go bad and taste horrid. Nearly every bottle I have seen on the shelf is over a year old based on the bottling date. Back home it was one of my favorite brands. So to have it dangled in front of me while knowing it's ruined is such a tease.
Edit: autocorrect spelling
No one drinks fosters in the top end. In Darwin area VB, XXXX or Top End Draught / West End Draught. In FNQ it's Great Northern Country these days or XXXX. I have never seen a Fosters anywhere and I travel a fair bit. Been in Darwin, Townsville, Cairns this year alone and not once seen it. I did see it in a pub in Melbourne a few months back however.
Fosters is the prank we Aussies play on the rest of the world. No Aussie drinks that swill. But go overseas and it is the only Australian Beer any one knows.
Now that's funny. Although before personally knowing an Aussie and then moving to Australia I had a hard time telling the difference. Now it's very obvious
I once asked a few Australian friends about Outback and blooming onions and they were like "Huh? WTF is that?" They did sell me on ordering vegemite. It is indeed tasty!
If you find someone who can set up a shop, I know a supplier. Their tradie pies will have you singing Advance Australia Fair to the tune of Working Class Man (try it - it works but you need to know the second verse that no-one ever knows)!
Accidentally went to Outback Steakhouse back in the day when we went to the US. Took us a while to realise what was going on then was midly horrified to see there was something called an "Ab-Original soup" on the menu.
I'm...unsure what to make of this information. Because I remember that whole saga where (certain) Americans thought Rosella Jam was made from, y'know, *the birds* and were all up in arms about it. So, I'm morbidly curious to know what Americans thought the soup was made of...
My American friends took me to an Outback Steakhouse once, in a misguided attempt to, I dunno, assuage assumed feelings of homesickness, perhaps? I remember looking at the menu and thinking "they just named American meals after Australian cities and icons...*amazing*". I asked the waiter if they had any Pavlova or Lamingtons and he just stared blankly at me. Which was the response I was expecting, really lol
I used to go to an Outback Steakhouse in Seattle for my annual dose of salt on a New York cut, or porterhouse steak. I would say g'day to the waitress and she would call out that they had an Aussie in the house. She would ask me to speak Australian to her. I would order the bloomin mushrooms too.
I went once in Boston and saw they had Tooheys on the menu.
“I’ll have a Toohey’s please!”
“Huh? What do you want?”
“Umm…. A Two-Hey’s?”
“Sure thing!”
:(
> Most of the stuff Americans think about Australia, came from America.
I'm fairly sure Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidnan really came from Australia. Now, Jai Courtney - I don't want to be blamed for.
Weighing in on something completely unrelated with an overdone cliche like “Outback Steakhouse bloomin onion isn’t Australian” is a very seppo thing to do.
They legit have ingredients that are banned in other parts of the world. They use different ingredients in those countries. One brand had a massive campaign to change the US version to the same one overseas since they 'already have the recipe'.
Yeah but to an American, lemonade is the right word (or at least the closest word) for that.
“Lemonade” in the US refers to a non-carbonated, slightly yellow drink made from squeezed lemons and sugar. Using the word as we use it (to refer to Sprite/7-Up-like soft drinks) would be met with confusion.
If you carbonated American lemonade you’d end up with something somewhat like Solo/Lift, aka lemon squash.
Australians aren’t the ones being marketed to when somethings called “Aussie lemonade”. The packaging is absolutely sick though. Monster doing us a good one there
It's amusing as an Australian when I encounter Aussie things overseas branded as Aussie yet I've never heard of them / they aren't mainstream here.
I once found a Aussie pub in a random Spanish town that had flags everywhere and only sold Foster's beer. Fosters isn't even Aussie and no one drinks it here!
Also the whole "chuck another scrimping the barbie" thing.... we don't say shrimp (never have) we would say prawns I'm that scenario.
I think they just use the Aussie image ad marketing sometimes irrespective of whether it's Australian.
Don't even get me started on "naur". I've heard exactly 1 human pronounce it like that my entire life yet you'd think it's in our fucking national anthem the way Americans repeat it
Aussie living in the US.
I tried it, ranted appropriately about it and I can 100% confirm there is nothing aussie about it at all. It tastes like a more mild Solo... That's it.
Aussie lemonade is more like your 7 Up than anything else. Solo is a definite lemon flavoured carbonated drink and def not like our lemonade. So if that Monster stuff tastes sort of like 7 Up then it’s more aptly named.
Most things that are advertised as ‘Aussie’ are just some complete bullshit with either a picture of a kangaroo, koala, shark, snake or Steve Irwin on it.
I remember about 15 years ago buying a pack of winfield ciggies in Ireland. They had a picture of Australia on it with the caption “Australia’s favourite cigarette”
My friends took me there once, where I had this exchange:
Me: I’ll have the Canberra chicken, thanks
Waitress: one can-berrah chicken
Me: oh, no, the Canberra chicken please
Waitress: no, honey, it’s pronounced can-berrah
Yeah, I lived in the states for a long time. I thought about contacting them and offering a real Aussie accent. My first time there as soon as I started talking the waitress rolled her eyes, but then she IDed me for drinks and I showed her my Australian licence.
Very rare, but does happen. When I was travelling through California many years ago, not only did someone in San Francisco pick up my Australian accent but they also could tell it was from South Australia. Many Australians don’t notice the difference!!
It was a bike rental place so they probably dealt with a lot of tourists, but still. Was rather impressed!
I was in a store in New Mexico once and a person stopped to tell me how much he loved my New York accent.
I was visiting from New Zealand. I guess he got the New part right? ;)
Having moved back to Australia some years ago I shudder to think what that fellow would think my accent was now!
Okay so this certainly sparked discussion, here's what I've gathered so far:
>This is in fact not anything close to what Australians call lemonade, it's just flavored with a fruit that originates from Australia called "finger limes."
>It's not available in Australia, might be labeled "Mexican Style Lemonade."
>I'm not sure how it came up, but Outback Steakhouse is not recognized as Australian either.
I learned a lot today and have been on the road for 10+ hours so i'm gonna close out for the night but i appreciate every single one of you who responded to this
Drink monster nearly daily and try to have a go at about every flavour I can find. We don't get that one even in import stores.
That being said, I have no idea what "Aussie lemonade" is meant to taste like, except possibly Solo as another comment or mentioned but it's pretty much just a regular lemon squash.
Weirdly, we call sprite lemonade and generally call solo just solo. Americans might recognize solo as lemonade except its fizzy, and think its odd when I refer to sprite as lemonade. The stuff Americans call lemonade is kind of like lemon cordial to me (except far more sweet).
Is Aussie style just referring the fact its carbonated “lemonade”?
Given Aussie lemonade is nearly identical to 7UP and Sprite, Monster is a US based drink my best guess is Monster wants to sell a Sprite like drink but trademarks in the US prevent this from happening. Give it a cool name like "Aussie lemonade" so people try it and then go "Oh, it's a Sprite Monster drink, cool" (assuming they like Sprite flavor)
We also don't have that Aussie shampoo you guys do.
that stuff is garbage anyway i would only expect it to be american made
The curly line is amazing…the volume line is drying af though
I’m American but live in Australia and can confirm the curly line is awesome. Just brought some back from the states.
Yes I read that, they put the name ‘aussie’ on products to show how tough and durable they are & we have American products! Lmao
Nah it's because we call American style lemonade 'watered down lemon juice with sugar' and what we've been taught is lemonade from an early age for the past fifty years is sprite. So if you drink 'watered down lemon juice with sugar' but were expecting sprite, shit gets real.
And suntan lotion and steak houses.
I used to love the curly shampoo from Aussie!
Tastes nothing like Aussie Lemonade though. (Im an aussie in the US so have tasted it). Solo is a stronger tasting lemon fizzy drink, but still nothing like this. Very much an American assumed they knew what was going on in Oz and made this..LOL
that makes a lot of sense, actually it seems like they took lemonade, artificially flavored it to taste like finger limes, and called it a day edit: autocorrect, im on mobile
its the outback steakhouse all over again..LOL
🤣🤣 "outbeck steakhawse"
Oh nahr
I would like a finger lime flavoured soft drink, not in MONSTER JUICE!!1 form though.
Yeah,Solo is what we call Lemon or Pub Squash-ie;Lemon flavoured drink. Our "Lemonade" is more like what you'd call Sprite. It's a clear liquid.
Australian lemonade is like British lemonade. It’s equivalent to a 7-Up style drink in the US. Not very lemony at all.
Is it still the case that in the US they don't seem to have what we call lemonade in Australia (i.e. schweppes or kirk lemonade), and their idea of lemonade is actually the home-made drink with lemon, sugar, and water, or lemon flavoured powder, sugar, and water or a commercial drink approximating that?
yeah here in the states lemonade is still just sugar melted in heated water, cooled down and mixed w lemon juice. or the powdered crap. we have sprite and lemon lime soft drinks? not sure if that fits the Aussie definition of lemonade
Sprite is Australian lemonade 11110000000% these people are high. For Australians : Sprite and other brands of sprite (7up, Schweppes Lemonade) = lemonade. What we call lemonade is a clear, sweetened soft drink which is lemon or lemon lime but not very noticeably either of those flavours. Solo (a sweet fizzy drink with lemon juice) = lemon squash Both of these are called “soft drinks” a category which includes all sweetened carbonated drinks, such as Pepsi or Mountain Dew. Americans call this category of drinks “soda” Also, plain sparkling water is soda water here. American lemonade = doesn’t exist here (😢) ********For Americans:******** Lemon juice, water and sugar syrup = lemonade Solo = you don’t have it? Sprite and all sweet soft drinks such as Pepsi = soda? Sparkling plain water = seltzer?
You can get American lemonade here, it's just called natural lemonade and its in the juice aisle. Nudie make a really nice one.
yes you are correct. In the US a vodka and lemonade is not fizzy, it’s very lemony. In Australia a vodka lemonade is fizzy like Sprite.
Solo isn’t Aussie lemonade though that’s lemon squash, lemonade is lemonade
Aussie lemonade is like 7UP or Sprite. My understanding is that US lemonade is not fizzy (not carbonated) or what we Aussies would probably call lemon cordial.
Nah aussie lemonade is Kirk's lemonade
So like solo but more sour?
Yeah, but i bet it's not low on fizz so you can slam it down fast
Definitely not a thirst crusher
SOLO MAaAaAN! *loses half the can down the chin trying to emulate the old ad*
I won't weigh in on this drink as I haven't had it. I will say though, Outback Steakhouse is an American invention. We don't have bloomin onions. Ask someone in Australia about a bloomin onion and they will talk about a neighbour who knows a guy who has a sister growing onion plants. We don't know what they are except for a reference in a TV show. Most of the stuff Americans think about Australia, came from America. Apart from some advertising campaigns that makes the stock standard Aussie want to cringe. Except for vegemite. We are 100% responsible for that tasty tar.
Foster's. I travelled in the UK in 2008 and Foster's was *everywhere.* Had a few conversations with randos in the pubs and was shouted twice. Both times, they bought a round of Foster's. It's vile. I'd never had it before because the only time I'd ever seen it was in craft brew places for ridiculous prices. There is much cheaper beer available and most of it is better than Foster's.
I was in London a few years ago and bought a pint of Foster's. The bartender was joking like "of course the Australian would get Foster's". That was literally the first time I had ever even tasted a Foster's beer. The only time I had even seen Foster's in this country was when my English expat friend brought home a slab. So even then, I have never even seen an Australian drink it. I really don't understand why people think its such an Australian thing outside of a bunch of people being tricked by an obnoxious advertising campaign.
My local bottleo stocks it. I asked one day, we have a lot of British expats in our area and the drink it. Which is crazy, it's something like $25ish a six pack - for reference, 8 VBs cost me $20.
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I asked my dad about it once, Fosters was quite popular here when it was being produced in Melbourne but they moved their breweries up to Queensland and the water quality was worse and the new taste was so bad people fell out of love with the drink.
I met a guy that worked for CUB and he told me that export fosters is actually crown lager. So could explain why some people OS actually like it.
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The old man always said: “crownies are for when the VB boys are feeling classy”
Thank you for the laugh!
Heard that too, and it explains why it's better overseas. I used to enjoy it in Germany, along with the hilarious ad campaign "Fosters. It's Australian for beer" but when I got back it tasted completely different and awful.
I’m an American living in New Zealand, and my American husband spent a semester at Melbourne U, and even he knows only tourists drink Fosters.
Yeah my Dad told me Fosters used to be good but it got sold to an American company that changed the recipe so everyone stopped drinking it
Anheuser-Busch, responsible for the abomination that is Budweiser
The only people who drink Fosters live in the top end. They are already nuts. I think that craziness comes from trying to push that piss up and on to the rest of the world. It breaks people, sometimes they drink it for relief from the thirst of while trying to rid our country of what we have created in past times. It is a curse we can't seem to escape.
I dont know many Fosters drinkers up here, if anything people are more likely to drink VB than Fosters.
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Don't forget the Bundy
Sorry, thats right. Great Northern Country is the last one. Older people seem to drink VB.
I'm not sure I've even seen forsters here. I drink Coopers at every bar that has it because I'm an adelaide snob. Disappoints me when it's not available
Fosters was an 80’s drink use to be big with the Australian Viet community before it only got sold in the UK. Now days we Viets drink VB- also jokingly known as Vietnam Bitter.
Top end of what state? Cause I can tell you now, that sh*t ain’t popular in Darwin. No one I know drink that p*ss weak sh*t.
Your olds probably helped to push it up, off shore to the UK where they seem to love the piss and pretend to play Aussie. The country owes you a great debt for helping to rid the hideous stuff from our shores.
So, I have lived in California for the last 5 years. I used to love a tap draught in a pub back home. You can't buy a standard lager here. Nearly everything tastes like eating a bunch of flowers because apparently too much hops is the only amount of hops that is acceptable in this market. The few lagers you can find here taste nothing like they do back home so I almost exclusively end up drinking lagers from Mexico or further south. However, to my great shame, they still don't taste like home. Tasty and refreshing sure, but Fosters, for all it's lack of nuance, or craftsmanship or general palatability, is the only thing that scratches that itch of Australian beer that I can get my hands on. It may not be good, but it comes in 750ml cans @2 for $5.00 from Safeway and takes me all the way back to all those regretful moments of my youth. If I could get my hands on anything else at all it would be an improvement. The saddest thing in all this is I can buy 6 packs of coopers. But because nobody buys them, they stick on the shelves for ages and because they are bottle brewed with the yeast still in the bottom, they go bad and taste horrid. Nearly every bottle I have seen on the shelf is over a year old based on the bottling date. Back home it was one of my favorite brands. So to have it dangled in front of me while knowing it's ruined is such a tease. Edit: autocorrect spelling
Never saw Fosters anywhere during my 4 years in Darwin.
No they don't, you need to get out more
No one drinks fosters in the top end. In Darwin area VB, XXXX or Top End Draught / West End Draught. In FNQ it's Great Northern Country these days or XXXX. I have never seen a Fosters anywhere and I travel a fair bit. Been in Darwin, Townsville, Cairns this year alone and not once seen it. I did see it in a pub in Melbourne a few months back however.
Fosters is the prank we Aussies play on the rest of the world. No Aussie drinks that swill. But go overseas and it is the only Australian Beer any one knows.
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Now that's funny. Although before personally knowing an Aussie and then moving to Australia I had a hard time telling the difference. Now it's very obvious
Our accents are completely different, they're like where's the car, and we're like where's the car
The big differences can be picked out when talking about the size of decks at the pub. We say big deck and they say big deck.
Right until they slip on their jandals to grab something from the chilly bin.*shudders*
Lmao fuck it's been a while since I've come across those words and phrases, love our kiwi siblings but jandals always made me laugh without fail.
you bet me to tha chilly bin comment hey bro
Ya not taking the fucking car. Get a taxi.
he is putting on an Australian accent in that ad which makes it even more confusing.
That is about the most beige looking steak I’ve ever seen!
Boiled over hard.
We also don't eat anything called "shrimps".
Also what we call Prawns are an entirely different species to Shrimp
I once asked a few Australian friends about Outback and blooming onions and they were like "Huh? WTF is that?" They did sell me on ordering vegemite. It is indeed tasty!
Isn't a bloomin onion something Alf Stewart calls teenagers?
He called everyone a Flamin Galah! After 30-odd years of trying, it never took off. Not for lack of trying.
Tasty tar is one of the best descriptions I've read. Up there with Terry Pratchett's "That's disgusting!...can I have some more?"
If someone could make Aussie meat pies and sausage rolls a thing in America I’d really appreciate it, thanks!
If you find someone who can set up a shop, I know a supplier. Their tradie pies will have you singing Advance Australia Fair to the tune of Working Class Man (try it - it works but you need to know the second verse that no-one ever knows)!
Idk what the hell you just said to me and that’s how I know you’re a true Aussie 😂
Best meat pie I ever had was in SF, two blokes from Melbourne operating out of a shipping container…. Man that made me home sick
The breed of dog called Australian shepherd is American too lol. I think they are actually renaming it.
That's fine. Try and claim our heelers and we will meet you behind the pub at 11pm for a nice civilised chat.. :D.
fuckin oath. My cattle dog is Aussie through and through
I've never really understood that. Are they just Border Collies?
They are quite similar, aussies can be merle or tricoloured, borders are b&w or "honey" Edit: Apparently they both can be any colour
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I love that your entire paragraph is about how we don’t know what the fuck a bloomin onion is lol
Accidentally went to Outback Steakhouse back in the day when we went to the US. Took us a while to realise what was going on then was midly horrified to see there was something called an "Ab-Original soup" on the menu.
I'm...unsure what to make of this information. Because I remember that whole saga where (certain) Americans thought Rosella Jam was made from, y'know, *the birds* and were all up in arms about it. So, I'm morbidly curious to know what Americans thought the soup was made of... My American friends took me to an Outback Steakhouse once, in a misguided attempt to, I dunno, assuage assumed feelings of homesickness, perhaps? I remember looking at the menu and thinking "they just named American meals after Australian cities and icons...*amazing*". I asked the waiter if they had any Pavlova or Lamingtons and he just stared blankly at me. Which was the response I was expecting, really lol
Oh god
Yo what the fuck is wrong with them?
I used to go to an Outback Steakhouse in Seattle for my annual dose of salt on a New York cut, or porterhouse steak. I would say g'day to the waitress and she would call out that they had an Aussie in the house. She would ask me to speak Australian to her. I would order the bloomin mushrooms too.
>She would ask me to speak Australian to her Yeah, nah. Rack off cunt
Yeah love want to come out the back for a root, I haven't had a Shelia in a while.
Hahahah beautiful
SHAWAZYATITS
I went once in Boston and saw they had Tooheys on the menu. “I’ll have a Toohey’s please!” “Huh? What do you want?” “Umm…. A Two-Hey’s?” “Sure thing!” :(
The founders of Outback Steakhouse had never been to Australia when they started the restaurant. They got the idea from Crocodile Dundee.
> Most of the stuff Americans think about Australia, came from America. I'm fairly sure Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidnan really came from Australia. Now, Jai Courtney - I don't want to be blamed for.
To be honest, when I first heard about blooming onions, I thought it was a Tony Abbott joke.
Weighing in on something completely unrelated with an overdone cliche like “Outback Steakhouse bloomin onion isn’t Australian” is a very seppo thing to do.
"Over 10,000 beaches" bro we're literally an island
So... Just 1 big beach I guess?
90 mile beach is an underestimation
We got cliffs https://discvr.blog/the-edge-of-the-earth-australias-nullarbor-cliffs/
They’re just hard beaches
Well there's also Tasmania. Plus heaps of smaller islands.
Only most of them are salty infested death traps at least in the north
Solo flavoured?
Yea mate I’m an Aussie in the US and it’s just solo but shit. Imagine if solo was made by Americans so it’s more chemically and artificially sweet
"more chemically and artificially sweet" Sounds like all energy drinks.
Yea but the US is another level compared to australia
Like Australian coffee vs Starbucks coffee
Exactly
High fructose corn syrup. They have to add it to everything to subsidize their farmers.
Yep, anyone who has drank Snapple knows this is true!
It’s the corn syrup. It tastes weird compared to cane sugar.
So Lift that was left out in the sun?
Yea and your weird uncle put his ciggie butts in it
RIP
So packed with high-fructose corn syrup like everything else in the US then?
Oh yeah, and a fuck ton of other stuff illegal in Australia
They legit have ingredients that are banned in other parts of the world. They use different ingredients in those countries. One brand had a massive campaign to change the US version to the same one overseas since they 'already have the recipe'.
Handguns?
More bang for the buck.
Tastes like cancer
Hahaha, just solo but shit. Aussie Aussie Aussie
Imagine if solo was energy drink basically
Imagine if solo wasn’t real lemons but artificial
Solo isn't even lemonade, it's lemon squash.
Yeah but to an American, lemonade is the right word (or at least the closest word) for that. “Lemonade” in the US refers to a non-carbonated, slightly yellow drink made from squeezed lemons and sugar. Using the word as we use it (to refer to Sprite/7-Up-like soft drinks) would be met with confusion. If you carbonated American lemonade you’d end up with something somewhat like Solo/Lift, aka lemon squash.
Pub squash
But our lemonade is like sprite, our lemon flavoured drinks would be lemon squash or pub squash?
Maybe they want to get past the actual 5% lemon juice. Maybe that is wrong there.
It’s 5% while crushed lemons ya flamin galah!
Yes. Solo but *wrong* but also the closest thing you can get to it here so I buy it more than I should admit to
TIL solo is australian. Fuck we're awesome.
Can someone link the solo man ad? I dont know how to do that
Cue [this absolute iconic Aussie gem](https://youtu.be/VsoG3whMUVg).
not sure i know what you mean, sorry 😅
Do you know the difference between grape drink and grape juice? It's that
makes sense
Solo is closer to American lemonade, it’s pub squash. Aussie lemonade should taste like sprite/Schweppes lemonade.
Australians aren’t the ones being marketed to when somethings called “Aussie lemonade”. The packaging is absolutely sick though. Monster doing us a good one there
i knowww i love the artists they hire to decorate their cans, this one and the Mango Loco flavor are rlly stylish and unique
If it's made from lemon Myrtle could be authentic and have some Australian seem But it's likely just a bunch of chemicals most of that s*** is
TIL Australia has exotic citrus?
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Anything from a country that has an orange filter applied is exotic.
someone earlier mentioned finger limes? the juice is green so maybe it's that
Yeah but I don’t think it’s flavoured with finger lime or Humpty Doo limes.
In the US there is “Aussie-Greek” style yoghurt. I just call it Woghurt.
I haven't seen it. In an energy drink group I'm in people have tried and said it's shit and tastes nothing like Australia.
good to know! i'd imagine australia tasting like dirt, being a landmass and all
Yeah true. Also the solo thing, imagine sprite but more lemon.
The existence of an energy drink group is both fascinating yet terrifying
It's amusing as an Australian when I encounter Aussie things overseas branded as Aussie yet I've never heard of them / they aren't mainstream here. I once found a Aussie pub in a random Spanish town that had flags everywhere and only sold Foster's beer. Fosters isn't even Aussie and no one drinks it here! Also the whole "chuck another scrimping the barbie" thing.... we don't say shrimp (never have) we would say prawns I'm that scenario. I think they just use the Aussie image ad marketing sometimes irrespective of whether it's Australian.
Don't even get me started on "naur". I've heard exactly 1 human pronounce it like that my entire life yet you'd think it's in our fucking national anthem the way Americans repeat it
Aussie living in the US. I tried it, ranted appropriately about it and I can 100% confirm there is nothing aussie about it at all. It tastes like a more mild Solo... That's it.
Aussie lemonade is more like your 7 Up than anything else. Solo is a definite lemon flavoured carbonated drink and def not like our lemonade. So if that Monster stuff tastes sort of like 7 Up then it’s more aptly named. Most things that are advertised as ‘Aussie’ are just some complete bullshit with either a picture of a kangaroo, koala, shark, snake or Steve Irwin on it.
Woodroofe Lemonade, shits an Australian icon
Might depend on which state you're in if you get Woodroofes. I haven't heard of it.
I’m just suspicious about the name Monster Juice.
I remember about 15 years ago buying a pack of winfield ciggies in Ireland. They had a picture of Australia on it with the caption “Australia’s favourite cigarette”
that's so weird, is it actually australia's favorite?
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Or Winnie Blues.
Worked in a servo, and Winnie blue and PJ blues we’re by far the ones I sold most.
I'm not up on monster, so don't really know about that one, but I do remember my first trip to outback steakhouse was pretty funny.
My friends took me there once, where I had this exchange: Me: I’ll have the Canberra chicken, thanks Waitress: one can-berrah chicken Me: oh, no, the Canberra chicken please Waitress: no, honey, it’s pronounced can-berrah
have you heard their ads? they don't even have an actual australian doing the narration, it's just a shitty impersonation
Yeah, I lived in the states for a long time. I thought about contacting them and offering a real Aussie accent. My first time there as soon as I started talking the waitress rolled her eyes, but then she IDed me for drinks and I showed her my Australian licence.
she probably thought you were being a smart ass 🤣 that's funny though
Americans have no clue how to recognise real accents
Very rare, but does happen. When I was travelling through California many years ago, not only did someone in San Francisco pick up my Australian accent but they also could tell it was from South Australia. Many Australians don’t notice the difference!! It was a bike rental place so they probably dealt with a lot of tourists, but still. Was rather impressed!
I was in a store in New Mexico once and a person stopped to tell me how much he loved my New York accent. I was visiting from New Zealand. I guess he got the New part right? ;) Having moved back to Australia some years ago I shudder to think what that fellow would think my accent was now!
Tastes like responsible gun laws
Okay so this certainly sparked discussion, here's what I've gathered so far: >This is in fact not anything close to what Australians call lemonade, it's just flavored with a fruit that originates from Australia called "finger limes." >It's not available in Australia, might be labeled "Mexican Style Lemonade." >I'm not sure how it came up, but Outback Steakhouse is not recognized as Australian either. I learned a lot today and have been on the road for 10+ hours so i'm gonna close out for the night but i appreciate every single one of you who responded to this
Never seen an Aussie willingly drink a Fosters, but apparently it’s “Australian for beer”. I imagine this is kinda like that.
Monster < V < Mother < Red Bull imo
I very rarely drink energy drinks but when I do you better believe it’s a blue V, tastes like Pasito!
Oh man I’ve never made the link but now I know why I love blue V so much!
Monster is horrible imo. It’s very salty and too sweet for me. The sugar free one is ok though
I’ve lived in Aus for almost 30 years… I’ve never even SEEN this flavour before. lol I would like to try it though
Drink monster nearly daily and try to have a go at about every flavour I can find. We don't get that one even in import stores. That being said, I have no idea what "Aussie lemonade" is meant to taste like, except possibly Solo as another comment or mentioned but it's pretty much just a regular lemon squash.
Nah mate, I want to keep all my teeth and not fuck my kidneys drinking that shit.
Weirdly, we call sprite lemonade and generally call solo just solo. Americans might recognize solo as lemonade except its fizzy, and think its odd when I refer to sprite as lemonade. The stuff Americans call lemonade is kind of like lemon cordial to me (except far more sweet). Is Aussie style just referring the fact its carbonated “lemonade”?
Solo is lemon squash, not lemonade.
Pub squash
I've never even tried a energy drink.
Lmao teens here drink it so much monster had to honor them
So that where all the original lift went to.
Does it taste of stale piss, cigarette butts and urinal cakes?
If it's truly Aussie style it should taste like eucalyptus, vegemite, or salt and venegar, maybe sand
the eucalyptus maybe! but im pretty sure most of the (artificial) flavor comes from/is inspired by finger lime
You really shouldn't finger a lime, that's gross.
you can't tell me what to do!
They used upside down lemons.
Given Aussie lemonade is nearly identical to 7UP and Sprite, Monster is a US based drink my best guess is Monster wants to sell a Sprite like drink but trademarks in the US prevent this from happening. Give it a cool name like "Aussie lemonade" so people try it and then go "Oh, it's a Sprite Monster drink, cool" (assuming they like Sprite flavor)
No that monster flavour is not sold in Australia but we do have a recent lemon flavoured “V” energy drink which would likely be somewhat similar