Orange drink?

[MissCommando]

What do you call that stuff (orange) that you add water to? I personally call it orange squash (so does everyone down here - I live in south-west england) but I was speaking to a guy from Rotherham who calls it orange dilute. He thinks the word squash is american and takes the mick out of me. Another guy from Manchester calls it cordial! So come on, what do you call it? and where are you from?

[sddsddean]

Although it is technically cordial, I've only ever heard it called squash and never heard of dilute. Originally I'm a Londoner, now in Northants.

[meltoadhall]

friends and family call it juice. thats from all around the country.

[jno]

juice ought to be stuff that has actually been on the inside of an orange, imho. I think of orange cordial as ready to drink and orange squash as needing water to be added. I'm from all over, though, so can't pinpoint where I got my vocabulary from.

[Ouisch]

Trust me, orange squash is NOT an Americanism. Squash over here is a vegetable or a game similar to raquetball.

Tang is the brand name of our major orange-powder-mixed-into-water drink; otherwise we'd just call it plain "orange drink."

[joko]

I'm from the northwest and I think I call any juice you need to dilute, cordial - except for orange, which would be squash! strange eh? - any other northerners do this?

another liverpool thing is to say lolly ice, instead of ice lolly - been laughed at by a lot of southerners for that!

[sunnyside]

I am an American and I say exactly what Ouisch says.I learned what squash means in other posts though. Thanks!

[PatriciaH]

From manchester and its ...cordial.when i offer a drink i do say "want orange or ....

[waimarie]

Orange Cordial is only the posh version of Orange Squash.

[Grunty]

When I am driving, I usually drink a pint of diluted orange drink. If I ask for orange squash, I am OK. If I ask for orange juice, I would get a pint pot filled from several bottles of the orange that is used as a mixer.

Cordial is the name used for a liquid that is used to murder a glass of whisky, although as already said, it is probably the same stuff.

I am from the south of England, now live in the Midlands but have been in many other places.

[gucciman]

i'm from birmingham and its orange squash

[gary baldy]

From another Manc and i would say if the drink was fruit based eg orange it would be squash. If it was something like Vimto it is cordial.
Joko made me laugh about lolly ice - my missus is a scouser and i constantly rip her about that one -
'closing the door over' is another one (weirdos!)

[logman]

As far as i understand, the bog standard stuff thats filled supermarket shelves for decades,the lengnth and breadth of the UK is Orange squash or lemon squash, several brand names, usually small printed (consentrated dilute to taste) If its a lime drink however, Cordial seems to be the exepted thing to ask for.

[loulee89]

Its cordial, but squash is the more slang term...i used to say cordial until i realised i sounded posh...i changed to squash to fit in lol. Im originally from coventry but now living in lincoln!

[coletteybaby]

im from edinburgh, scotland we call it diluting juice in the pubs here they call it cordial!!!

[Cleggy]

Fascinating. The "Corona Man" used to deliver drinks, including Orange Squash which said "...DILUTE TO TASTE" on the label (I thought this meant "delight to taste") but I quess this is where the Orange Dilute came from. There are many cordials of fruit flavours available which are very popular in North Africa.

[gary baldy]

10Clarionst - do you live just off Oldham Road?

[goldfish1]

In West of Scotland we say dilutin' juice.

[veritymoon]

im from the north west and call it cordial and my fiance is from west midlands and calls it squash!

[moviemaster]

The orange stuff is Tang. You know, what the astronauts took to the moon