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[hammercock]

I was reading and giggling over The 37 Most Awkward English Fails You Can Only Find In Asia, and was suddenly reminded of the time that I traveled to Turkey and Greece with my family in the summer of 1992. It was my first time visiting any part of Asia. At one point we were in Cappadocia, a region noted for its otherworldly (and very phallic) fairy

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[cos]

"all kinds of toast" reminds me of the menus I saw at some restaurants in Korea that had an "ade" section in their drinks, offering various kinds of "ade". Lemonade was just one; "ade" is a class of drinks. Grapefruitade, cherryade, grapeade, etc. At some places, that was actually the section title on the menu: "Ade" in bold letters, with a list of ades below.

[hammercock]

So did you learn what made those drinks "ade" instead of merely "juice"?

[cos]

On the one hand, few of the were what we'd call real juice; Korea tends towards fakey high-sweetened drinks. On the other hand, most of them would've been in a "juice" section on a US menu. Most Korean menus didn't have "juices".