Squash is not Juice!

[SillyBlueHat]

AIBU to be irritated by people who call squash juice? They are 2 different drinks

When I was at university in Glasgow, milk was 'coo juice'.

You misunderstood my post?

diluting juice, fresh x juice, ginger - simple.

Yeah, I stupidly assumed Americans called Koolaid squash.

YY to coo-juice

In reply to your title:

Yes it is.

Ah, I see. I had never heard of squash, the drink, until I moved to Belfast.

yanbu, and I always would say yes to juice then be saddened to find purple puke ribena in my glass

YABU.

Us Scots call it juice. Everything cold an non-alcoholic that isn't milk or water is juice.

Just like we say tatties instead of potatoes and outwith is a word here. we're not wrong, just different.

The apple diluting juice I have from Morrisons says "High Juice" on the front.

I'm English and live in Scotland. It took a while to get used to juice meaning squash. That's bad enough but in Glasgow, 'ginger' means any fizzy drink, or' fizzy juice' as Dh calls it.

Squash - concentrate stuff you dilute, lasts years
Juice - fresh squeeze orange ( or other flavour), kept in fridge
Fizzy- coke/ fanta etc

So yes squash and juice aren't interchangeable as completely different things. Squash is usually water, sugar, flavourings. Where as Juice only have natural fruit sugars in

LadyBeagleEyes - Yes you are all wrong.

It says what it is called on the bottle.

It annoys me! people ask if my children want juice, I say yes please, and they get given squash, which I'd have said no thanks to and asked for water instead!

Agree with forevergreek.

Ive never used the word 'squash' for it in my life.

We have always used 'cordial' for that.

And juice for actual orange juice/apple juice etc.
Im from Lancashire if its a regional thing...

Well it doesn't say fags, tabs etc, on a packet of cigarettes does it BBB,
I still call them fags though.
Oh and I hoover rather than vacuum, as most people do.
Fuck what it says on the bottle .

I was brought up with "squash" as diluting juice and "juice" as the stuff only containing fruit juice.
I got confused the first time I ordered orange juice in a pub and got given orange squash. "no I want that" I said pointing to a bottle of Britvic OJ. "Oh you mean fresh orange juice" the bar man said. Why people call it "fresh orange" when it's been in a bottle or container for months is mystifying. It isn't fresh, freshly squeezed OJ is different again.
Diluting juice should be specified as diluting juice, squash or cordial.
If I ask for orange juice I don't want synthetic crap.

I'm in Scotland

LB - I smoke fags and I, too, hoover. I also serve up lunch at around 12pm and dinner at around 7pm.