Lemonade Roundtable

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:39 pm

I've recently taken to making my own lemonade. Are there other lemonade chefs around? If so, come! Let's talk lemonade!

Would you like to BECOME a lemonade chef? I can help guide you along!

Come!

Let's talk lemonade!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:36 pm

Is the purpose of making one's own lemonade to save money or make better tasting lemonade?

I have to say, most of the lemonade I drink these days is Crystal Lite. I like the sugar-free stuff you can get from (some) restaurants. The super sugary variety is just too sweet for me anymore.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:53 pm

The point is twofold:

1. To make a lemonade which suits my tastes as closely as possible.

2. To be able to buy huge bags of lemons at the store and not know, deep in your heart, that 7/8th of them are going to rot in your little fruit bowl and get tossed out in shame.

The super sugary variety is just too sweet for me anymore.

Alright, I'm not sure you're following me here. When you "make your own", you can make it as sweet or tart or weak or intense as you want. It's UP TO YOU.

Like, this last batch I made? Sour enough to rip your fucking face off. "Oh, I don't like it THAT sou--- THEN MAKE IT A DIFFERENT WAY NEXT TI-

Look. Do you understand the concept, here? It's the ONE THING that we have control over in our lives anymore. The one thing. We can drink lemonade that suits our tastes exactly. Because there are, and have been, and will only ever be, three ingredients.

It's easier than most of the puzzles in Zork, and it's sure as shit easier than getting past the dog in that zookeeper game.

Take control.

Take the power back.

Let's make some goddamn LEMONADE!!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:00 pm

I'm not yelling at you, Flack. I want you in on this. It just dawned on me one day that there's never any reason to get bummed out over lemonade because they don't make the kind you want.

(Or they make Crystal Light, which... Christ, alright, whatever.)

Man, this is our week to get crazy! We should both be cutting loose!

It's something we should share!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:42 pm

Pinback, I am with you on this.

Let's take the lemonade back!

I have two oranges, a pair of retro Nikes, and a remote control to a television I no longer own. Now what?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:15 pm

I want you to get yourself some lemons. Let's start there.

I can't stress this step enough. Lemons: required.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:20 pm

My gal enjoys going to Sunflower Market. I have come to like going there, too. They certainly have lemons. They have an entire aisle of free range lemons. My question is: how many do I need? I don't require an exact number, but I'd like an exact number and even take it to a couple significant digits if you please.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:39 pm

Let's get a dozen lemons, just to be safe! We're looking for a cup of lemon juice. Some recipes say this means "six" lemons, which may be true, but as with everything up in the Pacific Northwest, where I live, lemons are terrible, and take at least a dozen to even approach a cup of lemon juice.

I would suspect things are better wherever you are. Anyway. Get a dozen or so lemons. Maybe in a bag. They sell them in bags.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:54 pm

I told my wife to pick me up 12 lemons the next time she is at the store. She asked me why. I told her it's so I can make my own lemonade. She called me a retard and said she would just buy me some lemonade if I wanted some. I told her to just get some the next time she's out. She told me it'll be six bucks, the same price as 60 servings of Crystal Light. I told her to forget it and that I'll get my own damn lemons the next time I'm in a grocery store, which will probably be six months.

So we seem to have hit our first impasse. I'm working on a plan B.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:05 pm

This BBS, and by extension, fucking lemmings are tearing families apart!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:06 pm

Oh. That reminds me. I will be referring to lemons as "lemmings" for the rest of this thread. I demand pinback acknowledge that I am doing that.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:33 pm

Let's make some delicious LEMMINGADE!

I didn't mean to start any domestic violence with this, I swear.

(Okay maybe a little?)

I just wanted to make some lemonade. With friends.

Also I fired up "Lemonade Stand" last night and spent all of the time just sneering at the default settings for sugar/lemmings per pitcher.

PFfff.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:03 pm

It's fine. One day we're going to do "Sexy Lemonade Stand" and have pictures of hawt chicks in the background for Lemonade Stand.

Or hawt men. Whatever. I don't want to get a reputation, so I'm waiting until you die and I can release it as the "newly discovered, thought-lost Ben Parrish graphical text game."

Actually, can I make Sexy Lemonade Stand and just put your name on it? Are ... are you cool with that?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:25 am

I'd like to be a technical consulant for the lemonade recipes, and also get to approve all the hawt pictures, but yes.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:48 pm

pinback wrote:Like, this last batch I made? Sour enough to rip your fucking face off. "Oh, I don't like it THAT sou--- THEN MAKE IT A DIFFERENT WAY NEXT TI-

Lemon Tree very pretty
And the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon
Is impossible to eat
- Trini Lopez, Lemon Tree

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 4:11 pm

pinback wrote:I can't stress this step enough. Lemons: required.

Personally I just buy Target lemonade drink mix. $3.20, makes about 8 quarts of lemonade. Water: required

According to Safeway.com, one lemon is about 79c, which means to get one cup - 8oz - of lemon juice you're talking six lemons or about $2.40 . On the other hand, a 15oz bottle of Safeway Reconstituted Lemon Juice is $2.19.

Did you consider packaged lemon juice as opposed to squeezing individual lemons?

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:44 pm

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Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:07 am

After having heard a part of this Lemon Song, and having heard other works by Led Zeppelin, including Stairway to Heaven I have to say I am soured by their performance.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:00 am

Your funny is coming along just fine.

Countrytime in the Sam's Club size, large yellow cardboard cylinders. There was a time, when I first went off drinking soda, that this was the only beverage I would consume (alcoholic beverages excepted). I would drink a pitcher of this stuff a day. Then I realized how much sugar is really in that pale powdery stuff..

I can't say that fresh squeezed is better, cause I just don't have the lemonade palate required. I will say that it wasn't bad, the couple times I had it, though.

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I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S LEMON ART
BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE
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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:57 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
pinback wrote:I can't stress this step enough. Lemons: required.
Personally I just buy Target lemonade drink mix. $3.20, makes about 8 quarts of lemonade. Water: required

According to Safeway.com, one lemon is about 79c, which means to get one cup - 8oz - of lemon juice you're talking six lemons or about $2.40 . On the other hand, a 15oz bottle of Safeway Reconstituted Lemon Juice is $2.19.

Did you consider packaged lemon juice as opposed to squeezing individual lemons?

Yes, tried it. Much like the difference between reconstituted orange juice and fresh, it does the trick in a pinch, but is most definitely a "flatter" taste -- hard to describe. Like lemon juice with the volume and "brightness" turned down. And with citrus, as with any other fruit I'd imagine, you want the VOLUME AND BRIGHTNESS CRANKED.

But yes, it'll do in a pinch.

The cost of fresh lemons is outrageous.