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Diabolo

Type	Non-alcoholic mixed drink
Region of origin	France
Flavour	Grenadine Strawberry Mint
Ingredients	Lemonade and syrup

A diabolo is a non-alcoholic mixed drink available in most restaurants and bars in France. It consists of a common lemon soda mixed with syrup. Popular flavours include mint (Diabolo Menthe), strawberry, lemon or grenadine.

Origins

The diabolo drink appeared before 1920, and became popular in France in the 1920s. The drink was around that time described as a mixture of a lemon soda and a 'very light tincture of liqueur', a lemonade and a cassis liquor, or a lemon-lime soda and a syrup.

Translation in other languages

Diabolo has no equivalent in Italian, but a lemon soda mixed with different syrups can approximately be translated as a gassosa [it].

Variants

A diabolo flamand is a cocktail composed of jenever, lemon soda and often a violet syrup, it can often be very sweet.

Gallery

• Two mint diabolos on a table of a bar in Montmartre.

Popular culture

• 1977 : Diabolo menthe (Peppermint Soda), movie by Diane Kuris

See also

• Lemonade
• Italian soda

References

1. G. O. (6 September 1929). "Les limonadiers sont enchantés de la vague de chaleur" (in French). Paris-midi. p. 2. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
2. "Et un diabolo, un !" (in French). L'Afrique du Nord illustrée : journal hebdomadaire d'actualités nord-africaines : Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc. 31 August 1929. p. 17. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
3. "Diabolo (étymol. et hist.)" (in French). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
4. Léon Maillard (15 August 1927). "Les travailleurs du Nord-Africain dans la région parisienne" (in French). Paris-soir. p. 5. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
5. "La France se dessèche-t-elle ?" (in French). La Charente. 7 August 1929. p. non paginé (vue 2). Retrieved 3 September 2020.
6. Colombo, Angelo (1 January 2009). Presses Univ. Franche-Comté (ed.). Recherches en littérature et civilisation européennes et hispano-américaines [mélanges Gérard Brey] (in French). Besançon. p. 428. ISBN 978-2-84867-245-8. Retrieved 26 December 2015.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
7. "Diabolo flamand : " Degustam. Appreciam. Colportem ! "". 21 September 2023.

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