#anyway I don't particularly care for Scrumpy

[airandangels]

Well, the French are well known to give children alcohol (a little, together with adults, to enjoy with a meal not to get drunk) and that's not generally regarded as harmful, just a different part of their culture. I wouldn't think it was outrageous if Americans were giving their kids a little cider as training-wheels booze, but the Americans are notoriously puritanical about booze (while also being appalling binge drinkers when they give themselves permission) so I reasoned "That can't be what it sounds like, but I can't figure out what it actually IS from context alone." I first encountered this in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode with Flim and Flam where the lesson Applejack learns is that she didn't need to learn shit, she was right all along. In which Rainbow Dash is absolutely insane for the cider that the Apple family make once a year as a seasonal special, like she is a raging dipso but just for this specific brief period of the autumn. It was confusing for a while.

I only learned recently that people from Not America don’t specify hard cider and instead it’s just cider.

I know this is a small difference but it is surprisingly one I do sometimes have to lie down on the floor about.