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How did squash (fruit juice concentrate) get to be called "squash"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Picked up a bottle of squash and got to wondering about the term "squash", so I went digging around on the internet. Of course all the returns are squash (cucurbita) not squash the drink. Keep digging and more specificity and finally find out the obvious, "sqaush" is a concentrated fruit juice. No shit. Dig more and finally find out that it's originally from a drink called "lemon squash". Real helpful. So where does "lemon squash" come from? Who knows. There's a curcubita called "lemon squash" that seems to be inescapable when searching for the origins of the drink.

So natives of where squash (drink) is common...how did it get it's name? I await to be enlightened while sipping my Ribena.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TIL that squash is concentrated fruit juice. I had always imagined it was just some over sugared flavored junk.

Maybe it's because you gotta squash the fruits to get the juice out? Or perhaps it rhymes with "slosh."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We fell for this on my first trip to the UK. We went to the beach for a day and bought a bottle of "Robinsons", and orange fruit squash, not knowing it was a concentrate (Yes, it is printed on the bottle, but we were in a hurry). When we poured it into our cups, we thought "Oh, a high quality juice, it is so thick". Nope. So I had to find a shop that sold water for a reasonable price and carry that 2.5l bottle down to the beach again...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If it's any consolation this was hilarious to imagine