In Australia and New Zealand, "soft drink" or "fizzy drink" is typically used. In South African English, "cool drink" is any soft drink. U.S. soft drinks 7-Up or Sprite are called "lemonade" in the UK.
Soda: 1941 Baker Popular Dictionary of Australian Slang 69: (of a person) one who is an easy or suitable subject for exploitation.
Australia has also been able to boast world-first flavours, being the first market to try new products like Coke Ginger, Coke Coffee No Sugar and Coke Orange No Sugar. Today, the Coca-Cola system in Australia's portfolio contains 165 drinks ranging across 25 brands.
fizzy drink
noun soft drink. Compare cool drink, cordial, fizzy cordial, lolly water.
Soda and Pop are the most common terms for soft drinks nationally, although other terms are used, such as, in the South, Coke (a genericized name for Coca-Cola).
Native Texans (like most native Southerners) call all soft drinks "coke"—a generic use of Coke, as in Coca-Cola, invented in Atlanta.
"Pop" and "fizzy pop" are used in Northern England, South Wales, and the Midlands while "mineral" is used in Ireland. In Scotland, "fizzy juice" or even simply "juice" is colloquially encountered, as is "ginger". In Australia and New Zealand, "soft drink" or "fizzy drink" is typically used.
Sprite Lemon+ is a range of primarily lemonade-flavoured soft drinks produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Australia and the Philippines under the Sprite brand.
Some of the traditional drinks that shouts Australia and that one should definitely try are Root Beer, Blood Orange, Lemon Lime and Bitters, Peach, Guava Soda, and more.
In Australia, the most popular soft drink is still Coca-Cola. It is the most commonly sold soft drink in stores, but it is certainly not the only one. Schweppes is also very popular in Australia.
Juice and soft drink
Fruit and vegetable juices and soft drinks are allowed into Australia if they are commercially prepared and packaged.
It was all part of a What the Fanta campaign in Europe. Now, it's in Australia, and our favourite snack Instagrammer, @foodfindsgeelong spotted the mysterious Blue Fanta on shelves at Woolworths. We did some digging and found out it's true—the mystery Blue Fanta is on Aussie shelves.
In 2022, Australia released lemon flavoured variants Sprite Lemon+ and Sprite Lemon+ Zero Sugar.
The most common verbal greeting is a simple “Hey”, “Hello”, or “Hi”. Some people may use Australian slang and say “G'day” or “G'day mate”. However, this is less common in cities. Many Australians greet by saying “Hey, how are you?”.
In New Zealand , Australia, UK, lemonade IS a carbonated beverage. It is carbonated and sort-of lemony, vanilla and sweet. In America, they seem to call water with lemon in it "lemonade". This is a completely different drink, which shares the same name in the different region. .
Dating back to the 17th Century, to bilk is to cheat, swindle or to evade a payment on a debt. Eelie is an obsolete Aussie underworld slang word for a confidence trick or the ruse by which a swindle is affected, probably extracted from eelerspee, an obsolete word for a con artist.
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
Spirits and RTDs are clearly the preferred drink among the youngest age group with the majority of 14 to 19 year olds indicating that bottled spirits or RTDs are their favourite drink (66.2%). In all other age groups beer and wine are the most popular drinks and together comprise the majority of favourite drinks.
The alcohol beverages most commonly consumed by Australians are bottled wine (34%), regular strength beer (19%), and bottled spirits/liqueur (15%).
The predominant form of lemonade found in the US, Canada, and India, cloudy lemonade, also known as traditional or old fashioned lemonade in the UK and Australia, is non-carbonated and made with fresh lemon juice; however, commercially produced varieties are also available.
Ingredients: Carbonated water, cane sugar, lemon juice from concentrate (5%), lemon brew (4.5%) (water, lemon puree, cane sugar, nettle leaf, yeast), flavours, acid (citric acid), preservative (211).
What Americans consider to be lemonade (ie, lemon juice, sugar and water) would just be 'lemon juice' or a 'lemon drink' in the UK.
Soda is the preferred term in the Northeast, most of Florida, California, and pockets in the Midwest around Milwaukee and St. Louis. Pop is what people say in most of the Midwest and West. And coke, even if it's not Coca-Cola brand, is what people call it in the South.
Lager is the term generally used in England for bottom-fermented beer. Despite the traditional English beer being ale, more than half of the current English market is now lager in the Pilsener and Export styles.
Where did soda get its name? The modern-day soft drink, however, didn't develop until the 18th century, when scientists started synthesizing carbonated water — also known as soda water. The “soda” part of the word is derived from the sodium salts within the water.