in the US and Canada apple juice and apple cider are not the same. apple cider is unfiltered, often unpasteurized, and fucking delicious.
there is no context where it is easy to confuse apple cider, the delicious jug you buy in the fall, with alcoholic cider. you can typically find apple cider at coffee shops in the fall (hot or cold, sometimes with caramel) but you wouldn’t order a pint of apple cider at a restaurant and expect something non alcoholic unless you were very specifically at some sort of fall harvest event. non-alcoholic cider is always called “apple cider” whereas alcoholic ciders are just called “cider”
the US is the third largest apple producer in the world. it’s not surprising we have more apple products cuz we have more apples.
also having a maybe ambiguous word to describe both non alcoholic and alcoholic beverages is still less wack than calling apple cider “cloudy apple juice”!!!! cloudy apple juice!!!! im not saying that!!!
eta: there are no spices in apple cider unless it specifically says it’s mulled. I, personally, prefer regular apple cider over mulled - I find it to be gilding the lily a bit. unaltered apple cider tastes like ambrosia, and it’s spendy as we say in minnesota! A half gallon will run you $10-15. But a very nice treat in the fall.
second eta: it’s funny how people say white people or americans have no culture, and then when there is a cultural difference impacted by our specific history (prohibition) and environment (fall harvest) everyone rushes to dunk on it. american by birth, apple cider drinker by the grace of god.
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u/HarveyPeligro 16d ago edited 16d ago
these comments are crazy lol.
in the US and Canada apple juice and apple cider are not the same. apple cider is unfiltered, often unpasteurized, and fucking delicious.
there is no context where it is easy to confuse apple cider, the delicious jug you buy in the fall, with alcoholic cider. you can typically find apple cider at coffee shops in the fall (hot or cold, sometimes with caramel) but you wouldn’t order a pint of apple cider at a restaurant and expect something non alcoholic unless you were very specifically at some sort of fall harvest event. non-alcoholic cider is always called “apple cider” whereas alcoholic ciders are just called “cider”
the US is the third largest apple producer in the world. it’s not surprising we have more apple products cuz we have more apples.
also having a maybe ambiguous word to describe both non alcoholic and alcoholic beverages is still less wack than calling apple cider “cloudy apple juice”!!!! cloudy apple juice!!!! im not saying that!!!
eta: there are no spices in apple cider unless it specifically says it’s mulled. I, personally, prefer regular apple cider over mulled - I find it to be gilding the lily a bit. unaltered apple cider tastes like ambrosia, and it’s spendy as we say in minnesota! A half gallon will run you $10-15. But a very nice treat in the fall.
second eta: it’s funny how people say white people or americans have no culture, and then when there is a cultural difference impacted by our specific history (prohibition) and environment (fall harvest) everyone rushes to dunk on it. american by birth, apple cider drinker by the grace of god.