We should point out that Apple cider is an alcoholic beverage with sparkle in UK/Ireland, but just cloudy apple juice in the US.
Down to prohibition. For a time you couldn't legally sell alcohol so apple juice was sold under the name cider. Sometimes with handy instructions on how not to store it to avoid it fermenting into alcohol. Then, by the time restrictions were lifted, cider just meant apple juice as far as America was concerned.
(Allegedly)
Yep. Prohibition was also the reason for Americans to be so into fast cars.
As a Frenchman from Normandie, and an uncle producing alcoholic cider, I was always very confused when ordering cider at restaurants. Hard cider is the booze one.
Not just in UK, but literally everywhere in the world. Apart from US.
Nah, US too.
Johnny Appleseed wasn't planting edible apples, he was sowing seeds for a variety that tasted absolutely terrible, but was the best for alcoholic cider. What other country has a folk hero whose mission in life was making sure the next generation never ran out of alcoholic cider?
But, in this sense, she's almost certainly referring to mulled cider, which is pretty much exclusively made with the hard stuff, with the some additional flavors and spices, and likely spiked as well.
My personal favorite recipe involves hard cider, cranberry juice, spices, and then spiked with rum.
It's much more fall feeling and alcoholic than either cider alone.
The entire West Country is fuming at both the notion of cider being merely an autumn drink and also it being compared to pumpkin spice
Yeah, you'll usually see that referred to as "hard cider" here. Though, it's worth pointing out that even American hard ciders are sickeningly sweet. There's a pub near me that has Strongbow, and I've become a big fan.
Strongbow is basically a piss in the UK. Sorry for you, guys, that you don't have proper cider over there.
The cloudiness is what makes it AMERICAN, you Limey bastard!
Buy a juicer, put a whole-ass bag of apples through that fucker, plus a knob of ginger. Simmer that shit in a pot with a few cinnamon sticks and whole cloves.
You can thank me later.
Also if you do actually do this and its your first experience juicing: clean your juicer immediately! Im serious, clean that shit while the cider is simmering. If you let it sit out 'til the next day you WILL regret it.
I'm not putting my knob any near a juicer. Fool me once...
Apple cider is seasonal because it relies on apple harvesting, but there is no reason to not have pumpkin spice any time of year except for artificial scarcity. The same with eggnog except people don't like eggnog much to begin with.
Eggnog is delicious, but if I drank it year round I'd put on a hundred pounds
But apples are available year round and cider is a great storage method. It is available year round. Preferences and market drivers cause seasonal supply increases.
Take the nutmeg out of it, that's what no one likes about it. That's basically what custard is, and it's fucking good.
It's like a drinkable pudding.
What, boo. Nutmeg is great. My experience with people not liking eggnog is that they don't like the stuff labeled eggnog you get at the supermarket.
The real stuff, made with egg yolks, with lots of booze, left to age a month or two, excellent.
Actual eggnog is an affront in the fact of god, but the carton of custard flavored milkshake that Southern Comfort sells every year is pretty excellent. I'm led to believe you can even put booze in it.
Those, sir, are fighting words. Eggnog is one of the best parts of the season, and I am willing to die on this hill!
This may just be me being a pedantic little bitch, but I hate when people call it "apple cider" Cider is made from apples, the apple is redundant!
Cider can be made from all kinds of good fruits (maybe things other than fruits can count as cider, I'm cideroligist)
Fun fact. American folk legend Johnny Appleseed was actually a very successful businessman. Rather than planting apple trees randomly, he founded tree nurseries for cider production. He wore pauper's clothes because he wanted to, not because he was some vagabond.
Another fun fact. Apple seeds are not true to seed. Which means if you plant apple seeds, you will get crab apples.
My local grocery store unfortunately has pumpkin spice apple cider this year...
Meanwhile, the rest of the planet still has no clue as to what pumpkin spice is.
Pear cider is better than apple cider
Yes! 💯
I'm not from the US and I gotta ask, wtf is pumpkin spice? Dehydrated pumpkin powder or what?
It's the spices often used in pumpkin pie and other pumpkin dishes. According to the internet, it's a combination of "cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves".
Easier to pour whiskey in, that's for sure.
Why compare a drink to a spice? That's like saying a chair is much better then a rose.
Probably because the most popular use of "pumpkin spice" is in a PSL.
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