• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun fact… You ever hear where Pink Lemonade comes from?

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unusual-origins-pink-lemonade-180960145/

    “Pete Conklin came up with pink lemonade in 1857 while selling lemonade at the circus. Conklin ran out of water and thinking on the fly, grabbed a tub of dirty water in which a performer had just finished wringing out her pink-colored tights. In true circus form, Conklin didn’t miss a beat. He marketed the drink as his new ‘strawberry lemonade,’ and a star was born. “From then on sales doubled,” writes Root, “…[and] no first class circus was without pink lemonade.””

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
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    3 months ago

    I save money by not even using lemons. I simply add a minute amount of dehydroxyl-5-ca carbomethyl-tridiamine hexanepolyethylene which tastes vaguely lemony but also causes elbow cancer. Treatment for which is patented by one of my subsidiary companies, so I make a good chunk of income with the cause and cure for that one specific disease.