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.

  • Christov@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Wanna have your mind blown more? Squash is more of a Britain thing. In Scotland and parts of Northern England, it’s known as diluting juice.