fun fact, it was actually just straight up beer in the original translation but they had to change it to ‘cider’ in order for it to pass american censors
For taxation purposes in the UK, a dutiable cider is any fermented apple or pear juice with a strength between 1.2% and 8.5% (ref: Alcoholic Liquor Duties Act 1979 as amended). Which just puts numbers to the common usage over here: cider always means an alcoholic beverage and we might call American soft cider cloudy apple juice.
The best sort comes from small farms operating their own presses under the radar of the taxman, is sold in repurposed red diesel containers, and isn’t fizzy. Not much of a head to it, though it can be cloudy to the extent of having unidentifiable floating lumps.
Cider in Europe is always alcoholic (That even caused some problems for this episode when it aired over there). If ED-SKaR is European, than he’s technically right.
Cider is not necessarily alcoholic, and you can explain this as being carbonated (sparkling). (Admittedly, though, it would likely not produce that much foam, especially with all the extra colloids in cider.) Soft cider is essentially unfiltered apple juice, sometimes with added spices, and it can be amazingly delicious straight off the farm. I pity people who think it’s merely an alcoholic beverage while drinking overly diluted apple “juice.”
If you’ve had Simply Apple, that is actually an example of soft cider since it’s unfiltered juice.
@Background Pony
I will also confirm BG pony’s assertion of fact. We even have a state definition in Pennsylvania in that “Apple Cider” is the amber colored unfiltered non-alcoholic juice from apples.
@DudeManGuy
I can confirm that in American English, “apple cider” refers to apple juice with all the pulpy bits left in. The alcoholic kind is “hard cider”.
So all the comics are true? Does that makes Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash both alcoholics? Because Pinkie drinks that many and Rainbow wants it so badly.
