I have a vague memory from my time visiting an uncle in Connecticut many years ago of him making lemonade using some form of lemonade pulp in a tin. It may have been frozen or just tinned – I remember him tipping this mix into a jug and just adding water and ice. Is this a thing or have a completely dreamed this up? I’m in the UK and this isn’t a thing here!
EDIT Thank you all! Very pleased to know I hadn’t imagined it! As someone who hates fizzy drinks it was such a lovely drink to have whilst visiting. It also makes sense how in American sitcoms people disappear into the house for 2 mins and return bearing a tray of lemonade for the gardener etc! I always imagined them juicing lemons at super speed! Wish we could get it over here
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I think I remember them being in metal cans once upon a time , but they do sell frozen juice concentrate in plastic can/bottle things that you just add a few cans of water to in a pitcher and mix.
It might have been Country Time lemonade, which is a powder. Or a brand of concentrate that you bought in the freezer section and mixed with water. You can still buy both.
Frozen concentrated mix. They are very common here. They come in lemonade, many types of juices and other drinks. Cheap and easy to make.
Yup, the frozen concentrates.
https://www.coca-cola.com/us/en/brands/minute-maid/products/minute-maid-frozen
Yes it’s a thing. Country Time lemonade is a powder that you add to water, but you can also get frozen lemonade concentrate.
Frozen concentrated juice! We definitely still have it. My mom makes a delightful punch with it – 2 cans of concentrated punch made w 1/2 the water, a couple 2 liters of sprite, and a 1/2 gallon of sherbet & ice & a can of fruit cocktail. Very 70s & dang good! She says in college they put vodka in it lol.
To add: the can itself isnt tin, just the top and bottom usually, the “can” part is just cardboard but as a kid it probably looked like a tin bc the lid is metal like a can.
No you’re not dreaming it up. They sold, and may still sell, cans of concentrated juice (orange, lemonade, grape, fruit punch, etc). The ends of the cans were metal and the body was maybe cardboard around a thin metal liner.
There’s frozen concentrate and there’s powdered mix. Both get mixed with water (and ice if you like). Not just lemonade, lots of fruit juices are available frozen or powdered.
Frozen juice concentrate– including things like lemonade and limeade– do exist here and work as you describe. The tin is normally metal on the ends, but cardboard in the middle. These were much more popular in the past, but you can still buy them today.
Frozen lemonade concentrate in a can is definitely a thing, assuming you’re not talking about powdered lemonade mix.
And it sounds like you know this, but “lemonade” in the US is not necessarily what you call “lemonade” in the UK.
It’s like squash, but frozen.
Frozen juice concentrate. You can also use them to make wine.
There is both a frozen concentrated mix and a powdered mix in a tin.
You’re not missing much – it’s effectively concentrated Capri sun, frozen probably as an illusion of freshness. Fruit squash as sold in the UK is far superior
Frozen juice concentrate is a pretty common thing in the US. And yes, it’s prepared by tossing it in a jug with cold water and stirring.
Yeah we had that for sure. It’s also how we made orange juice.
Definitely a thing. Frozen, sweetened, concentrated pulp in a paper tube and the cheaper powder in a pouch.
If you’ve ever watched Trading Places, the finale concerns the commodities price of frozen concentrated orange juice. This FCOJ would almost certainly be later packaged and sold in the same manner as the lemonade mix you’re asking about.
A tube of sturdy, waterproof cardboard with metal lids on one or both ends.
I can remember my mom buying the frozen cans of lemonade pulp in the 1960s. I think it cost about 10 cents a can. You could buy regular or pink lemonade. It tasted great!
We have lemonade powder here (UK), or you could when I was a kid which was a long time ago. You can eat it like sherbert but you can mix it with water too. Its like kale eye but lemon flavour.
Adding to what everyone else is saying that these little cans of concentrate were considered pretty revolutionary decades ago because they allowed Americans to get citrus all year round for its health benefits. Now of course it’s more common to have fresh fruit and fresh squeezed juices cold shipped everywhere.
Country time lemonade mix is probably what it was.
There’s both frozen and powdered. Frozen probably tastes better, but the powder you can make as much or as little as you like.
OP, you don’t have powdered drink mixes in the UK? wow, that surprises me!
We had a lemon tree and my dad used to make his own concentrates and freeze them in plastic cups.
you can still get powder mix like what was once in a metal can, but they come in a plastic container instead of a metal can like it was say back in the 70s-80s. We always had a can of mix for Country Time Lemonade
Everyone had frozen orange juice and lemonade in their freezer when I was a kid. Very convenient!
>It also makes sense how in American sitcoms people disappear into the house for 2 mins and return bearing a tray of lemonade for the gardener etc! I always imagined them juicing lemons at super speed! Wish we could get it over here
I had no idea that wasn’t common in other countries.
Frozen mix, powder mix, and just buying straight bottles of lemonade are all super common. Juicing actual lemons is if you want to be fancy around here.
My family buys these. https://www.instacart.com/assets/domains/product-image/file/large_a1ea0adc-07b9-48c3-8e04-7236e1d164ab.jpeg
Over 5 liters total, doesn’t need to be refrigerated until you open it.
I keep a dozen of those frozen concentrates on hand for when the grandchildren visit.
Might become available again at some point, but here’s where you can purchase it when it is. It’s probably expensive though. These run about $2-$3 in the US.
https://www.u-buy.co.uk/product/140BI4L3E-minute-maid-regular-lemonade-12-oz-frozen?srsltid=AfmBOorObVBzluuwSxmIV1Ah6zf2sTuvIkOaD04KCyqlSWxuF69-JqRD
Wow! I did not know that the UK didn’t have frozen juice concentrate!
Growing up, my mom always made our juice from frozen concentrates. Now that I’m an adult, though, buying my own juice, I almost always buy the stuff that says “not from concentrate” on the jug–I’m not really sure when Americans started to think that concentrated juice wasn’t good.
Frozen concentrates were all we had at our house..
My experience is that it wasn’t a tin can – it was a cardboard tube with metal ends. Back before “good” bottled orange juice was available this was a common way to get it. You’d dump the contents into a pitcher and add some number of tubes of water- I want to say three.
Probably something like country time or crystal light. Powdered mixes you just mix into cold water.
I don’t drink soda anymore. I buy a lot of those powdered mixes these days. They even sell them in smaller packets designed for 16oz servings. I use two in my 32 ounce hydroflask and usually take pink lemonade with me when I’m on the go.
We used to use the frozen limeaid to make daquiris. Small can of frozen limeaid, couple big scoops of lime sherbet, and the limeaid can full of rum or vodka into a blender, add water & ice and blend it up. Haven’t made those in forever but now I want to go to the grocery for frozen limeaid and sherbet!
from reading on here i see there was a frozen one, we only got the orange juice version of that when i was a kid. i couldn’t wait to figure out how to “sneak” and eat a spoonful and then just vibrate all day from the jolt. but in the 80s i frequently used a powdered one. i think there were a bunch of kinds. even now sometimes i buy the zero calorie one – i just can’t remember the name right now. Seems like the powdered one would be available in tons of places or at least amazon friendly.
* crystal light is the diet one i was thinking of