From: "Tanya Love"
I just thought of another thing too...
Cordial! No-one, and I mean NO one in the US had any idea what I was
talking about when I asked if anyone had cordial! We always have at least 2
bottles of different flavours in our house! It is a concentrated water
syrup stuff that you add about a cm of to the bottom of a glass and fill the
remainder with water. It is always a fruity flavour - raspberry, "fruit
cup", orange, lime, lemon etc. The closest American equivalent I could find
was "Kool Aid", but it is powder?!
I was SO excited to come home and have a nice big glass of raspberry
cordial! I guess we drink it like you guys drink Iced Tea - and it's just
not the same without a ton of ice cubes clinking around the glass!
You could have asked for "raspberry syrup". That's what it would be
called in North Carolina. You could have found it in a specialty grocery
... possibly in Boone, NC was the closest place to Grandfather Mountain.
In North Carolina, a "cordial" is a spirituous liquor, an alcoholic
beverage, and is also only available in specialty shops, i.e. state
controlled ABC stores.
Blame it all on the Southern Baptist Convention. We have to constantly
fight them for the right to consume any alcohol at all.
Anyway, I think the "cordial" sold in ABC stores is fruit syrup + water
+ grain alcohol to a certain percentage ... don't really know since I
mostly drink gin.
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