What's the difference between regular and pink lemonade?

 

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A pink lemonade variation can be produced by adding red food coloring or grenadine syrup. Traditionally, beet juice provided the pink color; so little is needed that the flavor of the drink remains largely unchanged. This beverage may have originated as a replacement for "Indian lemonade," a cold infusion of red sumac berries, sometimes sweetened with maple sugar. Sumac beverages have a taste and appearance similar to pink lemonade, and were popular with Native Americans and early European settlers. A popular urban legend about pink lemonade is that it was first made when a circus owner could only find one source of water to make lemonade: that which the clowns used to wash off their make-up.

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