Do you guys have squash??

We have an allotment (community garden) in the UK and grow all those, but in grocery stores you’ll largely just see butternut squash. Farmers markets will have a wider variety.

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Dottie85@reddit

My favorites are kabocha, red kuri, delicata, and honey nut.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

My favorite is acorn squash, although delicata is nice too.

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NiceGuysFinishLast@reddit

I get excited every time they make patty pan squash for lunch at work.

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Anachronism--@reddit

Those are winter squash. Zucchini and whatever the yellow one is are summer squash.

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Fancy-Restaurant4136@reddit

courgette (if I'm remembering the name right) is also a squash. We call it zucchini

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Flashy-Specific-4083@reddit

Summer squash is a great variety and perfect when sautéed as a side dish. I think those fall under “courgettes” in the UK

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

I think zucchini is called courgette here

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PumaGranite@reddit

Heck I’ve seen kabocha and a few other varieties beyond the usual too at my grocery store.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Make it 101 now you've found out about the drink. Every day's a school day!

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IthurielSpear@reddit

There are over 300 varieties of squash, but since it’s indigenous to the Americas, I can see why your post would be confusing to the majority of us.

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Double-Bend-716@reddit

They call zucchini “courgette”.

I think they still use the same word for other squashes

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For zucchini, yes. I remember in Agatha Christie, Poirot tried to retire to the country to grow vegetable marrows. Then he got so angry at one, he threw it over his fence in disgust and poof! A murderer appeared and he had to come out of retirement. Again.

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DjinnaG@reddit

This is what I always think of when I want to remember the British word for zucchini, so I was super confused to see someone call them courgette recently. Especially since Poirot was Belgian, if it’s usually called by the French word for the vegetable, why didn’t he use that word? Was his whole retirement a sham? Is growing zucchini not synonymous with finding innocent acquaintances to dump them on in the UK?

More importantly, username checks out

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yzerizef@reddit

Courgette are zucchini, which is the less mature version of marrow. Marrow can get rather large and while they just look like giant zucchini, they have tougher skin and a different taste.

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Darmok47@reddit

We use the Italian word, in the UK they use the French word.

I assume its because of Italian-American culture and cuisine in the US.

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BipolarSolarMolar@reddit

And they call eggplant aubergine.

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PABLOPANDAJD@reddit

Juice concentrate

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DimbyTime@reddit

Squash are native to the Americas, OP might not have a word for it in their language

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Their language is English, LOL. In the UK squash are called courgettes.

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Avery_Thorn@reddit

I am pretty sure that Courgettes are Zuchinis.

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

And yellow squash.

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ThroatFun478@reddit

Which we call "crookneck" or "yellow crookneck" in my neck of the woods. Delicious fried or in a casserole with onions!

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FuckIPLaw@reddit

Technically crookneck is a trait that yellow squash (and zuchinni, for that matter) may or may not have. The broad term is "summer squash," but that includes a few other things like zuchinni, calabacitas, and pattypan.

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Oklahoma and Tennessee here chiming in to say, “Yessir.”

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CaptainMalForever@reddit

British English is separate from American English in many respects

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LupercaniusAB@reddit

“Britain and the United States are two countries separated by a common language”.

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donuttrackme@reddit

Courgettes are specifically zucchinis. I don't believe it refers to all squash.

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Flashy-Specific-4083@reddit

Does summer squash fall under “courgettes?”

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

And yellow squash. I saw a lot of “gourd” designations. Fill disclosure: frequent traveler, not a Brit.

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ALittleNightMusing@reddit

Courgettes in the UK are what you call zucchini. We just don't get many varieties of squash in our supermarkets, so butternut is the only one most of us are familiar with.

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Yeah, I’ve only ever seen zucchini and yellow in London (tbh not shopped extensively for squash in UK).

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Comedeorologist@reddit

Maybe a "gourd melon."

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SAM5TER5@reddit

In American slang, this translates roughly to “head head”

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Dwashelle@reddit

We call them squash as well in Ireland and the UK. We call zucchini "courgette" and eggplant "aubergine" too, lol.

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Weary-Astronaut1335@reddit

Probably by the specific variety of gourd they're using.

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imperialviolet@reddit

Brit here, we call them both squash

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Neenknits@reddit

Squash and Ribena appear to be fruit juice with sugar. Sometimes sold whole, sometimes concentrate. We tend to have 100% fruit juice or almost all fake, we don’t have a lot of mostly fruit with a little sugar, except for cranberry juice.

In the 80s we drank a lot of what we called “cran foo” (only in my circle, used the Foo) which was cranberry-grape, apple, orange/you name it. They were not usually sweetened, the cranberry used the other juice to sweeten it.

I think it also came in concentrate, but I didn’t buy that.

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chubba10000@reddit

Did you grow up in an environment of nerds or did foo have a civilian life beyond the generic computer variable?

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FuckIPLaw@reddit

It sounds like they were using it as the generic computer variable to me.

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Dottie85@reddit

We still have those - the most popular brand is Ocean Spray. My recent discovery was white cranberry peach 🍑 😋

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Dwashelle@reddit

I thought they meant squash like the sport lol

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Doomdoomkittydoom@reddit

I wondered if it was that, or the sport.

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holymacaroley@reddit

We don't have shelf- stable liquid juice concentrate though, which is what OP is talking about.

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Loves_octopus@reddit

I thought they meant squash like the sport. We do have all 3 though. You’re right though, we call it juice concentrate not squash.

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pudding7@reddit

We have concentrated fruit juice that we dilute with water, but we don't call it "squash".

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

What brands? I can't think of any I have seen here in the Northeast or Florida.

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PurpleAriadne@reddit

Goya in the Spanish/Mexican food section or stores.

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clekas@reddit

I understand your confusion because the frozen juice concentrate that everyone is referring to is not the same thing Brits are referring to when they use the word squash.

I have seen Ribena, which is a UK brand, in the US, but it's not common.

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

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Saltpork545@reddit

Blackcurrant anything isn't common here and there's a historical reason for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAk1a0dqiM

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clekas@reddit

Interesting! I don't have time to watch the whole video now, but I've bookmarked it for later. Thanks for sharing!

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Saltpork545@reddit

I found it genuinely interesting and there are rust resistant versions now but some states still have bans on buying or planting currants entirely.

It also takes 2-4 years before you're going to get any form of berries and we replaced them with other berries that don't have white pine blister rust so they just never caught on. About the only people who know about currants or who have any interest are food nerds like me.

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Elemental_Breakdown@reddit

Squash here is like zucchini. I was thinking ewww who would juice a squash?!! Lol

I grow black currants, they are like weeds. I don't bother even harvesting them because they are too sour for me. They attract lots of wildlife though. I never put any poison on my edible landscaping, I think that the more fungicide and grass treatments and such you put out, the more pathogenic fungus overwhelms the balance.

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Saltpork545@reddit

Yeah, names are silly. I definitely wouldn't juice a spaghetti squash.

Much like sour grapes, if it's processed correctly you can make really good food but you definitely don't want to eat it straight up.

They are like weeds, once they get established it takes concerted effort to remove them.

One of my plans once I'm on my own land is a permanent raised bed of currants where I can hopefully contain them.

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Suppafly@reddit

IKEA has bottles of lingonberry concentrate that is probably similar. I buy it whenever I'm at IKEA and mix it with soda water for a drink.

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No-Anteater1688@reddit

My local Kroger usually has that, but it's almost always out of date.

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clekas@reddit

Yeah, it definitely exists in the US, but it's not common/popular.

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KayoticVoid@reddit

Minute Maid??

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woolsocksandsandals@reddit

I could swear, I just read that they stopped making it recently.

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SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

That’s because the Dukes tried to corner the market

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Fantastic_Fox4948@reddit

Beeks is tied up at the moment.

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SgtDoakesSurprise@reddit

🦍

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MamaPajamaMama@reddit

Yep, I read that too, that Minute Maid isn't making the frozen concentrates anymore.

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Darryl_Lict@reddit

Weird, they haven't carried orange juice concentrate at Costco for at least 10 years.

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Happy_Confection90@reddit

You did, it was announced in February

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Weekly-Bill-1354@reddit

I heard that too.

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KayoticVoid@reddit

No clue. I saw that in another comment though. HEB still has their own line of it anyways so I'm good there. I also get it maybe once a year for cheap easy margaritas.

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ivylass@reddit

I guess it's not a traded commodity anymore? Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd will be so disappointed.

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MadDadROX@reddit

Tropicana?

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KayoticVoid@reddit

Yeah. Minute Maid was just the first that came to mind. Though apparently we are not talking about the same kind of product as OP. 🤷

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holymacaroley@reddit

Yep, squash is a shelf- stable liquid, not what we have in the US.

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WiseQuarter3250@reddit

Minute Maid announced they are retiring them.

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-products/a70204306/minute-maid-frozen-juice-discontinued/

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CowboysFTWs@reddit

Damn, just steal my childhood.

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FrankDrebinOnReddit@reddit

Minute Maid and Welch's both make them.

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herehaveaname2@reddit

Not for much longer - https://www.npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-s1-5702811/goodbye-minute-maid-frozen-juices

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Ashirogi8112008@reddit

Florida doesn't have Kool-Aid??

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

Do you think powdered Kool-aid is concentrated juice?

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Ashirogi8112008@reddit

2 things that are functionally the same? Yeah absolutely

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LupercaniusAB@reddit

Jesus Christ.

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

I guess I know why there are nutritional issues here.

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Ashirogi8112008@reddit

I didn't make any comment on the nutritional value or health qualities of either beverage?

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

"functionally the same".

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Ashirogi8112008@reddit

Yep, 2 concentrated sweet drinks

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Dangerous-Safe-4336@reddit

Until yesterday I would have said that everyone knows that juice comes from fruit, and nobody would ever conflate that with a drink mix or a soda, but this is the second time I've seen it.

"Juice" means liquid squeezed out of a fruit (or sometimes a vegetable.) It does NOT mean a concentrated sweet drink.

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Sarcastic_Rocket@reddit

Basically every fruit juice in the store. Very rarely will you find a "not from concentration" brand of juice

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

It's a concentrate of say blackberry juice and you go home and add water as you want.

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Sarcastic_Rocket@reddit

Ah not already mixed.

Still have those in most grocery stores in the US. They come in like cardboard cans, that you mix in a pitcher. Usually lemonade, limeade, apple, and orange

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

Yeah- the frozen things are different. It just doesn't exist here.

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Sarcastic_Rocket@reddit

I had to Google it to find out that it's in syrup form when you buy it. Yeah we don't have that. Some clarification more than a sentence from OP would have helped

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Capital_Refuse_160@reddit

like the frozen orange juice or lemonade concentrate in the cardboard tubes. You just mix with water and stir til it’s defrosted. Some people use them to make slushies too

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growing_fatties@reddit

These were very popular in the 90s. All my friends' moms kept a bunch in the freezer for hot days.

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preparingtodie@reddit

and the 80s, and the 70s.

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Saltpork545@reddit

Hi, food nerd here.

Frozen fruit juice became super popular after WW2, as refrigeration became a common thing in households and logistics and technology really made it a household drink option.

If you had boomer parents, they likely grew up on frozen juice concentrates and passed that down to you.

It wasn't until around the 90s that better production methods for bottles of OJ really solidified the ability to have it sit in the cooler for weeks or months without altering the flavor that the transition started and we are here today.

As the last generation of boomers pass I suspect we will fully stop seeing frozen juice concentrates go with them.

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Different_Cherry8326@reddit

yes, it was very popular in the 80s. That’s the only kind of juice we ever got when I was a kid.

There used to be a whole freezer case of it. Now, at the stores in my area, they may have two or three varieties of frozen juice.

I used to like scooping it out with a spoon and eating it like sherbet.

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shelwood46@reddit

70s too. They were also good for making punch, which usually got spiked.

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genki_garbage@reddit

Yeah, I remember my parents making them for my sister and I when we were really little, but eventually they switched to buying regular juice.

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holymacaroley@reddit

What OP is talking about is a shelf- stable liquid concentrate.

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FinanceGuyHere@reddit

Most juices are actually concentrates. If you don’t see a place cutting up oranges in front of you, it’s a concentrate!

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

Yeah but in UK you just buy the concentrate in a bottle and add water at home.

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pudding7@reddit

No idea. I have never purchased any and I don't know how popular it is. But to answer OP's question: yes we have it.

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GoodDecision@reddit

It's not nearly as prevalent as it was in the 80s and 90s (the majority of all "from concentrate" juice came frozen in a can) but it's still around.

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axv18@reddit

Im in North East, i usually see it in frozen section. They have orange juice, grape juice, apple. Ive seen minute maid, dole, and generic store brand

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

OK- I thought you meant squash.

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tubular1845@reddit

But then you haven't looked very hard

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

Do you mean the frozen tubes?

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Tejanisima@reddit

I typically buy store brand because it isn't that different.

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Fart_Barfington@reddit

They are usually in the freezer section. Minute maid and such.

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SphericalCrawfish@reddit

Minute maide? It's on the Publix website so must be available in Florida.

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Responsible_Ask3976@reddit

Thought they were talking about the sport 😅

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VenusValkyrieJH@reddit

I thought they were asking about the vegetable LOL

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Responsible_Ask3976@reddit

😅😅😅😅 English is such a great language

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Felicity_Calculus@reddit

I love the phrase “fizzy squash.” Infinitely better than “flavored seltzer”!

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Responsible_Ask3976@reddit

Never heard of those 😅

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FuckIPLaw@reddit

Especially since it's flaired "food and drink". I was expecting a wall of replies explaining that of course we do, it came from here in the first place!

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TsundereLoliDragon@reddit

I thought they meant the sport.

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rockninja2@reddit

So did I, and I was like, "if we didn't, it wouldn't make much sense to make it an Olympic sport in 2028"

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Responsible_Ask3976@reddit

So excited for LA Olympics tho. I wanna go

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PurpleAriadne@reddit

We have “nectar” which is like a juice with lots of pulp in it. They sell mango and other tropical juices this way.

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as1126@reddit

I like nectar straight up, no dilution.

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bugzzzz@reddit

Wait are you supposed to dilute it?

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buffilosoljah42o@reddit

I think anyone who does is a psychopath (excluding mixed drinks)

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Western-Willow-9496@reddit

Use rum, not water.

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IHSV1855@reddit

That sounds delicious

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Genius-Imbecile@reddit

Arrr

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as1126@reddit

Amen

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Soundtracklover72@reddit

Same. Peach nectar is sooooo good

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ivylass@reddit

Put some in ginger ale. Mmmmmm.

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PhantomdiverDidIt@reddit

Apricot nectar ftw!

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Soundtracklover72@reddit

That is also good!

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PacSan300@reddit

Mango juice with pulp is insanely good.

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SteampunkExplorer@reddit

To answer your edit, the frozen juice concentrates we buy here (which aren't the same thing as squash) are mostly sold that way for convenience. When you're ready to drink it, you melt the whole juice-chunk in a pitcher of water.

Fruit juice ice cubes in a drink might be nice, though. 🤤 Maybe peaches or berries in a tall glass of sweet tea...

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

That sounds so good

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krustykatzjill@reddit

No. We have squash we grow in the garden. Not the squash drink, but the closest is “Tang”, which is a powder that you add water too. Source: lived in the UK

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Accomplished_Will226@reddit

I had never seen diluted juice like Robinsons or Ribena in the US and to me squash is a vegetable like butternut squash or zucchini squash (courgette to you) but we do have some frozen OJ from concentrate. You dump the can into a pitcher and fill with water to reconstitute the juice. Have not had that since I was a kid!

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

I agree with all of this except I wouldn't call coca cola juice

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swedusa@reddit

We don’t call it that but we have it. It used to be common. I remember mixing up orange juice from concentrate as a kid. It’s not so common anymore but it’s still available.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

I don't know what I would do without it! In the UK there's almost a whole aisle for it in the shops

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

A shelf-stable juice concentrate is not common at all here. There are frozen juice concentrates or there are shelf-stable bottled juices that are ready to drink, but nothing quite like what you’re describing. Our closest commonly used version would probably be powdered drink mixes, but those are usually artificially fruit flavored rather than actual dehydrated juice.

As people have already noted, we wouldn’t call it squash because squash the fruit is already a popular food.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

How popular is the vegetable though? I barely hear about it except from the occasional butternut squash soup

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Accomplished_Will226@reddit

Pretty popular especially in the fall.

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Astrazigniferi@reddit

Quite popular. They’re easy to grow and prolific in home gardens. Roast squash with savory seasonings is a common vegetarian filling for tacos. Summer squash is used in ratatouille along with eggplant. Zucchini can be grilled on the barbecue with hot dogs, or used in zucchini bread, or shredded and added to an egg frittata. Pumpkin is commonly used in curry. A pizza place near me uses sliced delicata squash as a seasonal topping. I love roast acorn squash topped with brown sugar. Really, it’s used throughout American cuisine as an inexpensive filler vegetable.

To answer your updated question, the frozen cans of concentrate are used to make an entire jug of juice. So, it’s in the freezer until you want to make juice, then you mix the can of frozen concentrate with 3 cans of water in a jug. The concentrate melts, then you have a container of drinkable juice to put in the fridge.

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oarmash@reddit

Squashes are very popularly grown and consumed here. It is the default when people refer to squash.

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SaintsFanPA@reddit

Zucchini and yellow squash are summer staples in the Northeast.

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OneNerdyLesbian@reddit

Multiple varieties of squash the vegetable are very popular here, especially yellow squash, zucchini, butternut squash, and pumpkin.

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SaintsFanPA@reddit

I would clarify that shelf-stable juice concentrates are not common at the consumer level. But we do have tons of juices available that are basically reconstituted concentrates.

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Accomplished_Will226@reddit

I’m not a fan. My MIL loves it though. You can usually get it in Walmart in FL in the British section. I think you said you were in FL. We also get Rose’s lime and make lime soda.

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KayoticVoid@reddit

For us it's typically a section of an isle. But most regular grocery stores have it at some capacity. And depending on state laws, they even sell them in liquor stores rather commonly.

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

We call those concentrates. Many here are frozen.

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Darmok47@reddit

FCOJ. I hear its how the Duke Brothers made (and lost) their fortune..

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United_Gift3028@reddit

Stock up, I just read Minute Maid is going to stop producing it!

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Guardian-Boy@reddit

They're only a part of the market. Almost every store still has the store brand stuff; Walmart and Kroger I know for a fact do and they're not stopping production.

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sleepyj910@reddit

I buy the Wegman's brand name myself.

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BirdieRoo628@reddit

That's frozen concentrate probably. Squash is liquid.

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AndrasKrigare@reddit

Is squash just concentrate, then? That's pretty common. I don't think I've been in a grocery store that hasn't at least had cranberry and lemon concentrate

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Loves_octopus@reddit

Like Mio but more natural?

Growing up I remember powders (tang, Gatorade, lemonade) and frozen fruit juice concentrate.

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shelwood46@reddit

Like Mio without the artificial sweetener. You can get it sometimes in the juice aisle, but Americans tend to get their juices premixed, frozen, or powdered.

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Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit

So liquid concentrated juice? Or is it more like the "juice flavor" stuff. Koolaid has some and a few other brands.

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BirdieRoo628@reddit

It's basically syrup made from fruit. You dilute it with water. Very different from Koolaid, which is all artificial.

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Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit

Huh i dont think we have that. I suspect the frozen concentrates just cornered that market and do not leave much room for other options.

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clekas@reddit

It's like this:

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

It generally has juice, but also some flavors, sugar, etc.

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swedusa@reddit

Yes what I was referring to is frozen. I didn’t even think about a the possibility that what OP was talking about would be NOT frozen!

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Sufficient_Fan3660@reddit

CocaCola/Minute Maid stopped production of oj concentrate.

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CoffeeIsMySacrament@reddit

wow, that's crazy. I had no idea. Although it's been years and years since I had any, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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carlos_the_dwarf_@reddit

This is a prosperity thing; we just stayed buying fancier juice.

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SaintsFanPA@reddit

That isn't really the same (assuming you mean the frozen OJ tubes). Squash is often sweetened and is a bit closer to a fruit-based soda syrup like that used with fountain beverages.

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JustAuggie@reddit

I lived in England for a while, so I know what you’re talking about. The closest thing we have here is Tang. What other people are talking about is a concentrated fruit juice, it’s not the same as squash.

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RektInTheHed@reddit

Shelf stable, room temp squash isn't really a thing outside of ethnic groceries, but cardboard cans of frozen concentrated juice still is.

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DrGlennWellnessMD@reddit

Is Mio still a thing? That's the only one I can think of that's a room temp syrup and not a powder or frozen concentrate

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katarh@reddit

I think it is still around.

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OldPolishProverb@reddit

Squash, Cordial and Diluting juice are UK products and phrases not commonly used in the US.

We do drink fruit juices but they usually come completely prepackaged with no mixing involved. Some come with a lot of sugar water in them and others are pure fruit juices.

We do have frozen concentrated juices like orange juice, lemonade or fruit punch, for examples, that are reconstituted by mixing with water. These usually make one large, 500ml or roughly 1/2 gallon, batch at at time.

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

Half a gallon is more like 2000 ml.

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OldPolishProverb@reddit

I stand corrected. Thank you.

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

Easy way to remember is that a liter (i.e. 1000 ml) is about a quart(er gallon). Same goes for meters and yards, really.

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Salarian_American@reddit

When I was a kid, concentrated juice that you mixed with water at home was very common, usually frozen. I don't see it much anymore.

We didn't call it squash, though. The name squash is reserved for a specific subset of gourds, or a racquet-based sport played in indoor courts, as far as I know

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Here if you have a powdered drink mix, it's normally diarrhoea relief

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Salarian_American@reddit

I'm not sure we're talking about powdered mixes though. Juice concentrates were, for example, orange juice with a significant amount of the water removed and stored in cans. It was usually frozen.

Then you'd open the can dump it into a pitcher, and add water and now you have orange juice.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

So you couldn't just make one glass of it, it would have to be a large pitcher?

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HarlequinKOTF@reddit

Correct.

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Salarian_American@reddit

They do make concentrates, brands like Mio, that aren't frozen and the bottle is designed to let you squeeze out a single serving into a glass or a water bottle. But I don't think those are actually fruit juice, just concentrated sugar water.

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HarlequinKOTF@reddit

Yeah and it being an individual portion is different to something like Ribenna which usually has enough for a couple dozen glasses or more

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FuckIPLaw@reddit

The liquid concentrates aren't single serving. The powders are because it's not exactly convenient to use only part of a tube of powder on the go, but the liquids have nozzles that allow you to precisely dose them by counting the number of squirts. They'd be squash except they have little to no actual fruit juice in them.

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Aidith@reddit

Yep, then you just keep it in the fridge, it’ll last several days that way!

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Salarian_American@reddit

Yeah it would last longer than the amount of time it took us to finish it, that's for sure.

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Dlax8@reddit

Yes, but no one calls it squash.

Squash is either a vegetable like a pumpkin or zucchini, or the sport wealthier people play that involves a hitting a wall against a wall with a racquet.

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killingourbraincells@reddit

Really? Wealthy people call wall ball "squash"?

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Drew707@reddit

Squash (sport) - Wikipedia

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killingourbraincells@reddit

Not what I played.

Tennis racket and a random ball (I was a child)

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Drew707@reddit

more like racquetball?

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juanzy@reddit

Just sounds like how you warm up for a tennis match

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Drew707@reddit

Which is how you practice for pickleball.

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Dlax8@reddit

No, wallball is different

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squash_(sport)

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killingourbraincells@reddit

I have never heard it called this lol. But I also grew up poor in the south, so idk.

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oarmash@reddit

Yeah that’s probably a you thing. Squash, racquetball are all different sports involving a racquet and a ball. It’s played in developing countries as well so can’t say it’s just a rich thing.

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killingourbraincells@reddit

It was my school.

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juanzy@reddit

Most community centers will have squash facilities, they're pretty low effort to build and a great indoor sport option.

Elite squash clubs are very much a thing in major cities though. My university partnered with Harvard on theirs, but IIRC initiation was $2k and dues were ~$1k a month for a young-adult membership.

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whatevendoidoyall@reddit

I thought wall ball you threw the ball?

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MamaPajamaMama@reddit

That's how we played it when I was a kid.

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killingourbraincells@reddit

I think it's also a Trick Daddy song. Idk anymore.

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animepuppyluvr@reddit

Ive never heard of either name so theres that

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

No. Unsweetened juice concentrate is sold frozen, and sweetened is sold premixed.

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Law12688@reddit

No, not like the bigger bottles in the UK. Closest we have would be something like mio or Crystal Light squeeze bottles (both made by Heinz, apparently).

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WulfTheSaxon@reddit

I’d think the closest thing would actually be grenadine.

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dgrigg1980@reddit

Squash? Is that a commonwealth thing?

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

No. We only have a limited selection of frozen ones.

I wish we did have squash here.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Wdym frozen?

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hollyhollyhock@reddit

It comes frozen in a cardboard tube, about the size of a tin can like you would get beans in. To make it, you put the frozen juice concentrate in a pitcher, add water, and stir it. It thaws and dissolves into the water as you stir, so it ends up being a pitcher of liquid juice with no frozen chunks in it.

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sleepyj910@reddit

you put the frozen slush into the pitcher, and mix with water. Then you have juice.

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dalidellama@reddit

Put in the freezer until it enters a solid state. Juice concentrates in the US are sold frozen and kept in the freezer until its time to use them. Traditionally you take it out a few hours beforehand on a hot day. Orange juice with pulp in is slushy instead of solid and you can dilute it sooner.

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

It is put in cans and then stored in the freezer.

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LulusMom@reddit

The concentrated juice is in a small frozen package. It’s real juice so is not shelf stable.

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punch-me@reddit

Frozen orange juice concentrate

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jub-jub-bird@reddit

There are VERY limited flavors compared to UK squash and often have added sugar

From what i can tell squash always has added sugar. That's actually the main difference. Frozen concentrates are mostly just real fruit juice without the added sweeteners and preservatives that would be required to make it shelf stable.

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CitizenCue@reddit

UK squash almost always has added sugar and artificial flavoring.

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XupcPrime@reddit

Of course you can find concentrated juice what you're on about.

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Blaizefed@reddit

I lived in england.I know what squash is. No it does not exist in any capacity in the us aside from imported British squash in specialty stores.

this sub has a bad habit of getting defensive and claiming that we have everything here that anyone else has anywhere. but in this case, no. nobody here knows what it is, and nobody here has ever had any unless they have been to the UK.

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SabresBills69@reddit

many fruits are frozen concentrate that you put in water in a 1-2 Litre juice jug and shake

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c8bb8ge@reddit

We have the vegetable and the sport, but not this.

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unknowingbiped@reddit

Concentrated fruit juice? Its in the frozen section.

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clekas@reddit

Squash isn't the same thing as concentrated frozen juice. The OP is referring to something like Ribena:

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

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DrGlennWellnessMD@reddit

Which we do have, but only in the International section of the grocery and who knows if anyone ever buys it.

(There seems to be a persistent myth that Ribena is still banned here)

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jurassicbond@reddit

We definitely have it, I've just never heard it called squash. It's usually called "concentrate"

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diversalarums@reddit

From what I've read of British squash, we don't have it here. They do sell frozen fruit concentrate. It usually comes in 12 oz cylinders and needs to be at least partially thawed. It's then mixed with 36 ounces of water in a large container, making 48 ounces. We don't have anything concentrated that can be diluted on a serving by serving basis. Not many people use the frozen concentrate anymore and these days most juices here in the US are sold in bottles ready to drink as is.

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Particular-Move-3860@reddit

Same thing here, OP. Just different terms for it ("juice concentrate" or "frozen concentrate.")

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indyreds24@reddit

I’m from UK and lived in Canada for a couple of years. Very surprising that they didn’t have squash or gravy granules! Luckily local grocery store had a ‘foreign’ aisle with robinsons and bisto!!

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

I don't know what I would do without my bisto!

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urnbabyurn@reddit

Frozen concentrated orange juice and other juices used to be very common in the 80s and 90s. But then the “not from concentrate” OJ became popular, and people starting turning from mixing concentrated juice at home. So you can find it in most any supermarket, but its market is much smaller than in the past.

Lemonade is one that’s just as good from concentrate since that’s all lemonade is. But no, people like buying the diluted stuff.

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BirdieRoo628@reddit

OP it's clear most of my fellow Americans don't know what you mean.

We have concentrated juice but it's sold frozen in cans. It's being discontinued currently by major brands.

We also have liquid concentrate of things like Koolaid and "water enhancers" that you can add to water for flavor and color.

However, we don't have an equivalent to what you Brits call "squash."
For anyone who doesn't know what it is. It's concentrated LIQUID fruit syrup you dilute with water. I've never seen anything similar in the US.

We also have a vegetable and a sport called "squash," so that's adding to the confusion.

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furlonium1@reddit

Oh that's cool. Like a big bottle of Mio or similar.

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Illustrious-Shirt569@reddit

As someone who has lived in the UK, I agree. We don’t have anything similar to British squash.

We have frozen 100% juice concentrates, we have flavored syrups meant to be mixed with liquids other than water (coffee or soda), but we tend to have sugared, fruit-flavored drinks sold as powders we mix into water.

I can’t think of any shelf-stable, fruity syrups meant to be diluted and consumed on their own.

Except for the Ribena I get at the international store occasionally. :)

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TheDwarvenGuy@reddit

Yeah we have juice concentrate

Recently there was a contraversy where Minute Maid discontunued its frozen orange juice concentrate that a lot of people love

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Icy_Consideration409@reddit

The frozen concentrate is not what the OP is describing.

He’s nearest equivalent will be products like Crystal light or Minute Maid powder that you mix with water to add flavor.

In the uk, it’s not a powder. But another liquid (brand names like Robinsons Squash or Ribena) that you combine with water. Often 1 part squash to say 6 parts water.

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oldRoyalsleepy@reddit

A long long time ago US grocery stores solf frozen juice concentrates in paperboard cylinders that had metal lids on each end. You used a bottle top opener to pry off a metal lid and you plopped the frozen juice into a pitcher and diluted it with water according to instructions.

That's how the world used to work.

Now, at a US grocery store we buy juice in plastic bottles. Come to think of it, it's wasteful. The bottles take up a lot of refrigerator space and the plastic has to be recycled. Probably all because we are lazy. Even reconstituting juice at home is too much like work.

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Teithiwr81@reddit

Not generally available here in any form that looks or tastes like British squash. Can occasionally find Vimto at Asian grocery stores (both fizzy cans and still concentrate).

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UncleOdious@reddit

Thaw it, pour it into a vessel, add water.

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ThingFuture9079@reddit

Yes. Fruit juice concentrate. Squash is a vegetable.

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

Frozen squash, in the frozen vegetable section. Cook it and eat it.

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BookLuvr7@reddit

What other cultures call lemon squash, we call lemonade. Most other kinds are called juice.

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MomRaccoon@reddit

I think the only place that I see lemon squash/orange squash here is in the European section of a grocery store. I think Kool Aid and sodas filled that purpose here.

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RobinFarmwoman@reddit

LOL, I'm not going to join the chorus explaining what squash are. I have a farm, and at the end of the season when I've odds and ends of fruit that I don't know what to do with, I make syrups out of them. Then when I want to drink I mix the syrups with my kefir or with fizzy water or mix them with a sun tea or something like that. Just my two pence worth.

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Esmer_Tina@reddit

No. I had some in the UK, and I was very confused by it. It’s not anything I would get excited about, or choose if there were other options available.

But reading the comments is making me crave pulpy orange frozen concentrate in a can!

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Dapper-Presence4975@reddit

It took me a minute to realize you were asking about a beverage and not the Thanksgiving side dish…

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sneezhousing@reddit

You open the can let it go into a pitcher then add water then you have a pitcher of juice. I think it's like three cans of water for one can of concentrate

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Spirited-Way2406@reddit

If it's concentrated fruit juice, it says "100% Juice" on the label. If it has anything else in it, it can't be called fruit juice, by law. Manufacturers can call it "fruit juice drink concentrate," "fruit juice cocktail concentrate," "fruit punch concentrate," etc.

And, yes, when I was growing up there were multiple freezers full of frozen concentrates. Lemonade (lemon squash), limeade, 100% juice, fruit punch, etc. You just followed the directions to dilute the frozen concentrate in a pitcher. Everybody had a plastic pitcher with a tight-fitting lid that you could turn one way to close and the other to pour, or a flip top ditto. Many were rectangular, to fit into the shelves in the refrigerator door.

And they were used in recipes, like, a scoop of undiluted orange juice concentrate to make a citrus sauce for white fish fillets.

I don't see bottles or cans of concentrate on the shelves, except for purple grape juice. Half gallon bottles of juice and juice drinks, flat on the sides like the old pitchers, are the standard in my shopping area. Frankly I find most of them too sweet and dilute them as if they were concentrate. I just want something to cut the dust in my throat, not a drinkable dessert.

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Ix_fromBetelgeuse7@reddit

Fun fact about "frozen juice concentrates" (as we call it here). Minute Maid, the main producer, has announced that they're discontinuing that line of products in the US. I think their popularity has gone down quite a bit. I do remember them from when I was a kid though. It was "poor person's" juice if you couldn't afford the real stuff. It's just not much of a thing here.

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zgillet@reddit

We have "water enhancers" (Crystal Lite, Stur are what I know) and juice concentrates if that is what you mean. I guess you call it "squash" as in "the fruit is squashed/squished" down? Sounds like a soda syrup made from fruit juice concentrate.

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jub-jub-bird@reddit

I've just found out that's it's frozen in the US?? How would you go about drinking it? Do you put it in your drink like ice?

Looking it up the difference seems to be that juice concentrate in the USA doesn't have the additional sweeteners and preservatives added that "squash" does in the UK. It's pretty much just straight fruit juice with the water boiled off often without any additives at all so it's not shelf stable and has to be frozen to prevent it spoiling.

To prepare you just mix the frozen concentrate into around 3X as much water and you'll get a jug of fresh tasting orange juice (or whatever other juice concentrate you purchased. But orange seemed to be the most popular).

Sweet artifical fruit drinks are usually sold either pre-mixed or as a powder. Those are pretty much just sugar with some fruit flavoring added. It's pretty rare to see a syrup for this purpose in the USA outside of commercial uses in soda fountains.

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MaroonTrojan@reddit

No, not like you’re thinking of. We don’t have Ribena, we don’t have Robinson’s or anything even close, really. You can find them as imports in ethnic/specialty stores but there isn’t any sort of domestic equivalent.

People who are saying “we have things that are like squash, but we don’t call it squash” don’t know what squash is.

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backpackofcats@reddit

I wish it was a thing here because I do love black currant squash. It can be found in specialty international markets though. We do have various other cordials and syrups, but they’re not usually made from fruit juice like squash, and they’re mostly used for cocktails.

I do sometimes make my own, especially right now with mulberry season in swing.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Is blackcurrant mainstream there or is most of the purple flavour grape?

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backpackofcats@reddit

Not mainstream at all because blackcurrants were once banned from cultivation in the US due to a fungus they harbor that was affecting trees and the timber industry. They are still banned from cultivation in several states.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

That's crazy! Blackcurrants are amazing

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backpackofcats@reddit

The most popular thing we have here is grenadine (pomegranate), which is pretty widely available all over the world. Lime cordial is also very common.

Commenters are confusing squash with frozen juice concentrate, which are nothing alike. The closest things would be the grenadine and lime mentioned, and syrups from common brands like Monin. There are lots of independent makers of better cordials, and these can be found mostly in bars and liquor stores since they’re mostly used in cocktails.

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Anon-John-Silver@reddit

You’re referring to juice concentrate, which is often sold frozen here. We defrost it most of the way then put it in a jug of room temperature water and stir it until it fully dissolves and incorporates. However, it was more common when I was a kid in the 90s. Don’t see many people using it anymore.

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Environmental-Gap380@reddit

It was a little more common in the 70s/80s. Hawaiian Punch used to come as a concentrate in cans. You’d use a church key to open it and pour into a pitcher. Basically a flavored syrup that is added to water. Also it’s how fountain soft drinks are made.

Concentrated juices are different and sold frozen in the US, but I don’t see them as much. The finance plot in “Trading Places” was about the price of frozen concentrated orange juice.

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Villan_1981@reddit

As a Brit living in the USA, no they do not. Closest thing is Mio additive a bit like the squash’em things you can squeeze in water. They’re not good tho.

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clekas@reddit

Yeah, it's so uncommon here that a lot of people are misunderstanding the question and think the OP is asking about frozen juice concentrate!

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Villan_1981@reddit

Yes, I couldn’t let OP think that’s actually the answer!! What they’re asking vs the answers they’re getting are two totally different things! Which just shows same language, totally different understandings.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

I've often heard that line "Two countries separated by a common language". This entire discussion seems to embody that phrase.

American English and British English are JUST different enough that it can lead to miscommunications and mistakes like this.

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Villan_1981@reddit

My daily life is basically full of me saying something then kind of having to explain it again! 😂🤣

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

I feel like the USA should definitely get squash bc it's such a household staple here

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Villan_1981@reddit

I’ve found it the odd time in some grocery supermarkets under ethnic food sections or in a specific British store. At an ungodly price! Americans are WAY better than Brit’s at having water and being hydrated I’ve noticed. Often a water bottle or container is something they leave the house with.

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anneofgraygardens@reddit

Wouldn't it be boring if everyone had the same foods and drinks though? It's fun to go to other countries and try new things you've never heard of.

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Regina_Falangy@reddit

In Scotland, its dilootin juice

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Traditional_Trust418@reddit

We have the vegetable, squash.

We also have frozen drink concentrates. You mix it with water and it turns into juice

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BroughtBagLunchSmart@reddit

The only time I ever heard squash used in that context was years ago when a gorilla broke out of the zoo and drank a bunch of it.

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mommawolf2@reddit

It's usually frozen concentrated juice that's split with water and put in a jug.

We don't have ribena or anything like that really

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Comfortable-Bike9080@reddit

Never heard this term squash

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WritPositWrit@reddit

You can buy some frozen concentrated juices (mostly “fruit punch,” apple, & orange) and Ocean Spray used to sell a shelf-stable concentrated syrup version of their cranberry, cran-apple, and cran-grape blends, but i haven’t seem that in stores in ages.

We don’t call it squash.

And the way to drink it is to mix it with water in a pitcher. The concentrates are sometimes used as ingredients in recipes, primarily sweet breads and desserts.

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bloobityblu@reddit

Re: your edit: You can thaw out the frozen juice (it's in a cardboard cylinder usually) first, or not, but you add it to a jug/jar/pitcher of the appropriate amount of room-temp water and stir until it's all mixed together.

Those don't usually work as individual servings unless you're very good at math(s) and eyeballing precise measurements of frozen concentrated orange juice lol.

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byte_handle@reddit

We call it concentrate, and we usually freeze it. Because juice contains dissolved sugars and acids, it's freezing point is much lower than water, so it quickly melts when you mix it up.

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GSilky@reddit

We invented it.

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clekas@reddit

Frozen juice concentrate like what's sold in the US is not what a Brit would call squash. Squash comes in a bottle and is a mix of juice with sugar, citric acid, etc. Ribena is one UK brand that's sold in the US:

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

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GSilky@reddit

Frozen juice concentrate you dilute in water, as described, is very common.

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clekas@reddit

Yes, I know, but that’s not squash.

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

We did? Where do you buy it?

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BoringPrinciple2542@reddit

At any store that sells groceries lol.

Typically juice concentrates are sold in the freezer section as the main appeal over fresh juice is shelf stability and ease of storage. U/Gsilky may be referencing the vegetable though as the squash genus is native to the Americas (and when an American says squash they almost certainly mean a plant in that family).

The shelf-stable & heavily sweetened syrupy concentrates that you may see in some countries are pretty uncommon and only found in international grocers if that’s what you are thinking of (Rooh Afza for example).

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

No, I was just looking for a UK squash style product.

I guess we don't have it here.

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BoringPrinciple2542@reddit

Yeah. Rooh Afza (an Indian/Pakistani brand) is the one I’m most familiar with but as stated anything of that nature will primarily be in stores that focus on foreign foodstuffs.

In the U.S. most similar products are either frozen reductions of the actual juice or powdered “fruit beverages”. The syrupy stuff called “squash” in UK English isn’t common in the U.S. but can be found in international markets and probably on occasion in liquor stores where it may be sold as a sort of mixer or cocktail ingredient.

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CharlesDickensABox@reddit

The freezer section of your local grocery store. The most popular is orange juice concentrate, but there will like also be lemonade, limeade, pink lemonade, and maybe others.

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Mclarenf1905@reddit

Usually in the freeze isle by frozen fruit in my experience

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GSilky@reddit

Juice concentrate? At 7-11.

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SquashDue502@reddit

You usually let it thaw a bit, squeeze it out, add water.

Also “squash” to us is the vegetable. We’d just call this “concentrate”

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Riker_Omega_Three@reddit

You just plop the frozen concentrate into a pitcher of water and stir til it melts

Doesn't take long at all

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Is it like a flavoured ice cube?

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gotbock@reddit

No it's concentrated juice that is frozen. When you put it in water and stir it up it thaws out rapidly. The sugar content is so high that it doesn't freeze into a solid block. It's semi-solid.

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Riker_Omega_Three@reddit

it's more like if you took a slushy or snowcone and froze it...than it is an ice cube

So once it's in the water, it dissolves more quickly

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Outlaw_Josie_Snails@reddit

Interesting, I had to Google this:

United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa:

Squash is a shelf-stable, concentrated fruit drink.

You pour a small amount of the concentrated liquid (the "squash") into the bottom of a glass.

The standard ratio is usually one part squash to four or nine parts water, depending on how strong the brand is.

You fill the rest of the glass with plain tap water or sparkling water. Because it’s a liquid syrup, it mixes instantly without needing much stirring.

Some examples of flavors are Orange and Blackcurrant.

In the US, a similar item is 'Frozen Concentrated Juice'

Thawing: You don't drink it frozen. You let the cylindrical canister thaw slightly or pop the frozen "log" of concentrate directly into a large pitcher.

The 3-to-1 Rule: Most American concentrates follow a standard ratio. You add the frozen concentrate to a pitcher and then fill the empty cardboard canister with water three times, pouring those into the pitcher.

Stirring: You stir it vigorously until the frozen concentrate dissolves completely into the water.

As far as I know, Frozen Concentrated Juice is not as popular as it once was in the US. I drank it as a young kid.

I live in the US. I just looked at the British shop in the neighboring town: They carry 'Vitmo Fizzy', 'Vitmo squash' and a few other brands.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

You HAVE to try vimto

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Outlaw_Josie_Snails@reddit

I will. I was at the shop last month and picked up a tin of "Traveler" candy. I like it.

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FormerlyDK@reddit

Our squash is a vegetable that grows on vines, like pumpkins.

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KevrobLurker@reddit

I sampled some of this brand.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinsons_(drink)

....at a food tent at an American Irish festival some years back, so I know what English squash is. I even tried some of that nasty barley water. Revolting. To think that barley could have been made into real ale! A tragedy! Had to have a meat pie to get the taste out of my mouth.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Do you know what flavour you tried?

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KevrobLurker@reddit

It was maybe a a quarter century or more ago. Lemon, perhaps?

I'm a fan of the musical MacManus, so I'd heard about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ6QaMtwdPc&pp=iggCQAE%3D

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Interesting

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MuppetManiac@reddit

To answer your edit, you put the frozen concentrate in a pitcher with a specific amount of water and it melts and you stir it and it is drinkable.

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TheCrowScare@reddit

I've only seen it in the UK, and ironically in the UK section of Publix and World Market. Most of our concentrates are frozen, and you put it in a pitcher and dilute/melt with water. We don't really have small bottles of concentrate to dilute on a glass by glass basis.

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wise_hampster@reddit

There is an old drink mixer called shrub, it's a vinegar, sugar and fruit syrup. Quite tasty actually, but not often used anymore. Mostly it was mixed with bourbon.

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DrMarduk@reddit

We do but it's frozen? And you pour water over until it thaws and you now have juice? No we don't use it as ice cubes, and why is it called squash?

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Because the fruit is 'squashed' I believe

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Highway49@reddit

What y'all call pub squash, we call lemonade. What you call lemonade, we call lemon-lime soda (Sprite, 7-Up).

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ShortRasp@reddit

I am today years old when I learned squash wasn't just a vegetable in the fall and winter times. Not to be confused with squash like destroy something.

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YoshiandAims@reddit

You put the water in the pitcher, add the frozen concentrate thawed. Stir.

It's sold frozen, it's also sold in powders, and in liquid form.

We don't call it squash though.

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rawbface@reddit

At first I thought you meant the vegetable, which is weird because they're indigenous to the Americas.

Concentrated fruit juice is in the freezer section, because it spoils..

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jsmith_92@reddit

Thought you were talking about the vegetable

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jessek@reddit

Fruit juice concentrate was a thing in the 80s and earlier but I don’t think it’s sold much anymore.

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Guardian-Boy@reddit

Long story short, no, we don't. I lived in the UK for a while and I know what you are talking about. There is essentially zero demand for it here. We prefer just buying the ready to drink stuff.

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icebox_Lew@reddit

There's no real equivalent to squash. There are mio squirt things which are equivalent to those squash mini things, but theyre very chemically.

Luckily, I live in Little England and the supermarkets here all have imported squash, but only Robinson's Apple & Blackcurrant or Orange. I also get Double Strength Orange & Pineapple off Amazon but have to buy 3 big bottles at a time, which works out cheaper than the fiver a bottle costs at the supermarket, but I have to be feeling flush to justify 35 bucks on 3 big bottles of squash!

It's pretty funny seeing people's brains melt when my kids ask them for 'squash' when they're asked if they want a drink, like we've been making them drink courgette water or something, but that's life of an immigrant I suppose!

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

35 bucks is insane!

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Pitiful_Lion7082@reddit

Yes, the fruit concentrates are frozen. When it's diluted with water, it melts.

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icebox_Lew@reddit

There's no real equivalent to squash. There are mio squirt things which are equivalent to those squash mini things, but theyre very chemically.

Luckily, I live in Little England and the supermarkets here all have imported squash, but only Robinson's Apple & Blackcurrant or Orange. I also get Double Strength Orange & Pineapple off Amazon but have to buy 3 big bottles at a time, which works out cheaper than the fiver a bottle costs at the supermarket, but I have to be feeling flush to justify 35 bucks on 3 big bottles of squash!

It's pretty funny seeing people's brains melt when my kids ask them for 'squash' when they're asked if they want a drink, like we've been making them drink courgette water or something, but that's life of an immigrant I suppose!

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Salty_Permit4437@reddit

Some places sell ribena but it’s not mainstream in the USA

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Norwester77@reddit

It’s frozen, but because of all the sugar and (potentially) fruit pulp, it freezes into a mush rather than freezing solid. You squeeze it out of the can into a pitcher, add water, and stir to make the drink.

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btnzgb@reddit

No we do not

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peanutismint@reddit

No, the frozen stuff here is mainly breakfast juices, like orange or maybe grapefruit. We don’t have any Robinson’s or similar (well I do but only because I order it from Amazon every so often!).

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Chedditor_@reddit

Robinson's and Hawana are not common in the US, no. Instead, we settled on frozen juice concentrate, which are less syrupy and more pulpy, and generally come in a lined cardboard tube with metal end caps. Generally, you dump them into a pitcher of room-temperature water and stir until dissolved.

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shorty6049@reddit

I remember back in the 90s and into the 2000s here in the US we had a lot of options for canned frozen or non-frozen "juices" . Some were 100% juice concentrate, some were more of a "juice cocktail" (which usually meant pear or white grape juices mixed with artifical flavorings and colors)

We had cans in the freezer section of stores that were like a cardboard tube with metal caps on the ends (similar to canned biscuits but with a different way of opening them) , and in the non-cold sections it was sold for a while in standard aluminum soda cans.

There are also delivery services (Schwan's is one popular one) which would sell little paper cartons (like mini milk cartons) full of "juice" or "drink" concentrates.

I think all of those are pretty similar to a squash but in varying levels of closeness to it.

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ArrrcticWolf@reddit

We do have frozen juice concentrates, and they’re kinda frozen in such a way that you just add it to room temp water and it dissolves with some rigorous stirring

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Application-Bulky@reddit

Concentrated squash juice?

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XupcPrime@reddit

Its just concentrated juice you dilute with water. In the UK they call it squash.

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Want_To_Live_To_100@reddit

Does the UK not have the vegetable?

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

They call them courgettes.

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royalhawk345@reddit

All squashes, not just zucchini?

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

Zucchini and Yellow are both courgettes, but I think they call acorn & butternut winter squash. I only bought courgettes.

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XupcPrime@reddit

They do but they call the juice squash as well.

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Infinite_Crow_3706@reddit

Usually concentrated orange or other fruit.

Dilute it about 5 part water : 1 part 'squash' and drink in a glass

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Application-Bulky@reddit

Yes, those are normal. Squash juice sounds gross.

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Infinite_Crow_3706@reddit

Squash just refers to the concentrate style. Lots of flavours but orange is the most common

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Application-Bulky@reddit

Yes, I get it. Just trying to act clueless for the comedy. Sounds like it didn't work. I'll show myself out..

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Im not drinking the vegetable

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mirth4@reddit

I would not consider squash and the frozen juice concentrate some people are talking about as the same thing. I feel like squash is often a concentrated liquid, not always even juice (or only partially juice, partially sugar, color, and flavor). You can find it here of you look for it, but it's not common or a commonly known term. I've seen it in South Asian (Indian/Pakistani) stores for example. We do have plenty of similar drinks though, maybe something like a Capri Sun? (though not concentrated — I think "concentrated" is what's making peeler think off three frozen concentrated juice that used to be much more common here)

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Flashy-Specific-4083@reddit

Squash is the fruit from a variety of garden plants in the US. Zucchini, summer squash, acorn squash, pumpkins, etc.

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Bot_No_5@reddit

Did you never watch the movie Trading Places? FCOJ (Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice) was a major plot point.

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ZaphodG@reddit

We have it in carbonated beverage dispensers. I had lingonberry at an IKEA cafeteria a few weeks ago. The Five Guys hamburger chain has orange, cherry, fruit punch, grape, lime, peach, raspberry, and strawberry. It’s not popular as a home product mixed with still water. Everyone has cars. People buy cans or bottles already mixed.

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The_sad_zebra@reddit

[EDIT] I've just found out that's it's frozen in the US?? How would you go about drinking it? Do you put it in your drink like ice?

Usually, you make a full pitcher of it, thawing the concentrate in the water.

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z44212@reddit

So we have squash?

Of course. Gourds or game?

Drink??!?

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rangeghost@reddit

We had frozen concentrate, came in little cardboard tubes. They just recently discontinued the Minute Maid brand of it here. I think one can still find store brands though.

Squash like the UK though, there's only a few odd "flavor additive" type products that are sort of similar, but not that popular. We also have the bottled lemon juice that one can use to make lemonade, but it's not pre-sweetened or anything.

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Ok_Independent3609@reddit

We do, but I’ve only rarely heard it called that. Usually we just call it concentrate.

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WhatABeautifulMess@reddit

I know some people who make it, especially i the summer when tart cherries are in season, and drinking it or gifting it for the holidays but cordials just aren't that popular overall.

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Bear_necessities96@reddit

I've just found out that's it's frozen in the US?? How would you go about drinking it? Do you put it in your drink like ice?

In a blender with water, most of the nectar are from Tropical fruit like passion fruit or guava

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

That sounds delicious

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Bear_necessities96@reddit

It is not like the real fruit but you know you can’t grow guava or passion fruit in most of the USA or at least not in a cheap way

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ABelleWriter@reddit

No, we don't.

First, the frozen juice concentrate people are talking about aren't squash. It's fruit juice that has had water removed, then it's frozen. You thaw it and add water.

Squash is less juice than what people are talking about, and is closer to water flavoring that we have here, according to Google. But even that isn't the same.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but squash is some juice, sugar, and water. Then you add that to water. So the juice is really watered down, and honestly sounds like it tastes pretty weak.

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datsyukianleeks@reddit

We have, but we don't call it squash. It's also not common. After visiting London and tasting the tap water, I understand why londoners use it - the tap water is horrific. Here people generally either use a filter, neutralize the hardness with a lemon wedge, buy bottled water, or just don't drink water.

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LinuxLinus@reddit

Have you not seen Trading Places? Their whole "frozen concentrated orange juice" scheme is about our version of this.

You go about drinking it by letting it thaw as you pour water over it.

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jeremiah1142@reddit

Frozen juice concentrate? Yes, that is what I grew up drinking. Still available, but no longer drink it.

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clekas@reddit

No, not frozen juice concentrate. It's a bottle of juice concentrate, mixed with sugar, citric acid, etc.

Something like Ribena:

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

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OmightyOmo@reddit

We get it you’ve posted that comment multiple times. US doesn’t have an equivalent to UK squash. Frozen juice concentrate is the closet mass marketed product.

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clekas@reddit

Multiple people said the same thing over and over and over, so I replied to a small portion of them. Some people only read the replies to their comment and don't read the entire thread.

Why be rude?

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KevrobLurker@reddit

My late Dad would brew tea, then add the smallest tube of frozen lemonade concentrate to about a half gallon of that, chilled. It wad his version of an Arnold Palmer.

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No_Tamanegi@reddit

Core childhood memory of mine was dumping that frozen lump of juice concentrate into a plastic pitcher and then mixing it with water until it was drinkable.

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waluigieWAAH@reddit

I was so confused watching WILTY whenever they mentioned squash. The whole time I thought vegetable juice really got David going

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Interesting-Phase947@reddit

We had the frozen concentrates, but they are being discontinued this year.

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CitizenCue@reddit

Squash isn’t just fruit juice concentrate. It almost always has sugar and artificial flavors. Some doesn’t have much real fruit at all.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Yeah that's true

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clekas@reddit

I think this answers prove that we don't have squash, or at least prove that it's not very common! Almost everyone is automatically thinking of an entirely different product when they think of juice concentrate.

FWIW, Squash exists in the US, but isn't common.

This is what all of the people who have said yes think you're referring to:

Minute Maid® Frozen - Varieties & Nutrition Facts | Coca-Cola US

For those who don't know, this is squash:

Amazon.com : Ribena Blackcurrant Concentrate, 28.74 Fluid Ounce : Grocery & Gourmet Food

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Boston_Brand1967@reddit

To me, squash is ONLY the vegetable. I often cut some up, maybe with zucchini and onion, as a side dish.

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ScoutasticBeast@reddit

Closet Thing We Have Is Fruit Juice.

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HarlequinKOTF@reddit

Squash in the us is a vegetable.

Juice concentrate is an uncommon sight in us stores aside from frozen juice concentrate which you thaw and add water to.

Powders are the most common form of non-juice juice, but they're basically just sugar and artificial flavors.

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MTheLoud@reddit

Your question is causing confusion because you’re claiming that squash is concentrated fruit juice. We have concentrated fruit juice that’s literally just fruit juice with some water removed, sold frozen, labeled as concentrated fruit juice.

Squash isn’t concentrated fruit juice, though, at least not that I’ve seen. Squash is a drink mix made of fruit juice, sweetener, and various flavorings. To drink, it’s diluted with water, but the resulting drink isn’t fruit juice, it’s a fruit-flavored drink. We have fruit-flavored drink mixes, but we don’t call those squash either.

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ChickyBaby@reddit

we have squash casserole.

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pfcgos@reddit

It's less common to get frozen juice concentrate these days, but it's still out there. You just open the tube of frozen juice and put it in a pitcher or carafe with water. You can let it melt before adding water if you want or add warm water to help out melt faster. It's not like an ice block so much as a thick slush. If you were to squeeze it, it would squish or come apart.

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Fangsong_37@reddit

We have many varieties of concentrated drinks here in the USA. Frozen juice concentrates were very popular when I was growing up. Powdered drink mixes (like Tang, Hi-C, or Country Time Lemonade) and liquid water enhancers (like Mio) are pretty popular in a variety of flavors. I don't think I've heard it referred to as Squash except online.

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Mental-Intention4661@reddit

I think what that's called in the US (having grown up in the UK and now live in the US...) is closest to like ... crandberry cocktail juice. Fruit juices that are not really fruit at all... more like colorfun sugar water that tastes like a "fruit"....

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Apprehensive-Pop-201@reddit

I was wondering the vegetable or sport. We have juice concentrate. We don't call it squash.

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CoffeeIsMySacrament@reddit

I think the American equivalent to your squash is "-ade." As in lemonade, a beverage made with lemon juice, sugar, and water, served over ice. Occasionally, orangeade. And for reasons I dare not imagine, Gatorade. If someone offered you a refreshing glass of "cherryade" or "pearade" you would know what to expect, even if you never heard of such a thing.

Separately, we have cans of frozen juice concentrate, which you thaw and mix with water to make juice. If you diluted it further and sweetened it, you could make an -ade.

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Ancient_Macaroon_646@reddit (OP)

Wait until you find out about apple and pear squash, one of my personal favourites

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Chronic_Iconic_Lady@reddit

Some confusion about the difference in squash and concentrate. We do have fruit juice concentrates that is frozen, but its mixed with water and kept in the fridge in a big jug that you serve individual drinks from. We don't have a concentrate in the fridge that we mix with water to make an individual drink.

The common idea for the difference is that American fridges are significantly larger than the standard UK fridge and we don't need to consider the space as much.

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XupcPrime@reddit

Yes. It was invented here

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

We did? I'm dying to know the brands because I can't find squash here. Can you link to it?

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XupcPrime@reddit

My Wegmans has both Ribena and Robinson.

We also like mio and crystal light and torani and moving fruit syrup - the orange is 100% robinsons

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BoringPrinciple2542@reddit

They are using a non-American word.

Squash as referenced here is a sort of juice concentrate not the family of gourds & vegetables native to the Americas.

What OP is referencing is more like a fruit-flavored syrup that you dilute with water.

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WebHungry1699@reddit

It comes in a can.

You open the can and out comes a cylinder of frozen fruit concentrate.

The directions usually call for adding 3 of the empty cans worth of water and mixing.

As simple as that.

It comes in lemon, lime, orange, fruit punch and grape most commonly.

It used to be the best way to get orange juice on the cheap. But now they are adding extra sugars or high fructose corn syrup to it.

It's gross now .

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SexyHyena66@reddit

I used to live in an England. To me, Squash tastes just like Tang. Squash has a hint of a fake sugar taste but other than that, it reminded me of Tang.

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LavenderPearlTea@reddit

Squash? The vegetable? Yes.

Fruit juice concentrate? Yes, frozen fruit juice concentrate that you add water to.

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derkokolores@reddit

I think some people might be interpreting "concentrated fruit juice" as the frozen tubes of juice concentrate that Minute Maid had/has that you toss into a pitcher of water. These were pretty popular up until probably the 00's? I haven't really seen anyone use them since.

The closest thing to British squash would be the low calorie liquid flavoring like mio which are relatively common still, but not nearly to the same extent as squash where it's in nearly every household fridge.

When we buy juice it's normally in a pre-diluted (or 100% juice), half or full gallon jug ready to drink.

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Responsible_Side8131@reddit

When we use the word “squash” in terms of food in the US it generally means an edible gourd.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

Squash the vegetable? It’s a drink?

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OneNerdyLesbian@reddit

I've just found out that's it's frozen in the US?? How would you go about drinking it? Do you put it in your drink like ice?

You thaw it out and mix it with water when you want to drink it.

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DeliciousMoments@reddit

I noticed that in Europe people will mix the concentrate with a glass of water so you're basically making one beverage at a time. In the US it's more typical to make a whole pitcher of a drink from concentrate and keep it in the fridge.

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kanna172014@reddit

Our squash is a gourd. Pumpkins are a type of squash, as are zucchini. I'm pretty sure what you are referring to is just frozen juice concentrate. We don't typically have a specific name for it.

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Infinite_Crow_3706@reddit

Squash - Various

Pour 1 part squash into a glass and add 5 parts water.

Childrens drink usually.

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8rok3n@reddit

Like, the Vegetable?

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Responsible-Fun4303@reddit

lol when I read this, I thought you meant “do you eat squash, like zucchini or spaghetti squash”. Which I was prepared to comment weekly we eat it. But rereading your question, and seeing comments, I have never heard of calling what you are referencing squash. We never drink it (we don’t drink juice in our house) but what I call it is frozen juice.

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Acminvan@reddit

Yes but they are usually frozen not a liquid concentrate like in the UK or Australia

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alt-box@reddit

We have frozen orange juice from concentrate but we are more likely to have just regular juices from different fruits not from concentrate, unless you're shopping in the international aisle. It's not as common a thing here though you can get it if you look around enough.

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No-Profession422@reddit

The vegetable, yes.

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sneezhousing@reddit

We have juice concentrate but it's not called squash.

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crazycatlady331@reddit

In the US, squash refers to a vegetable, which is common in the fall.

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Jessalopod@reddit

We have juice concentrate, but it's just called that. "Juice concentrate."

"Squash" is either used for the vegetable, or the sport played with rackets by the same name. If you say you're having squash, Americans will assume you're eating the vegetable.

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macoafi@reddit

We have juice concentrate in the frozen section, not on regular shelves, and we don't call it squash.

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Kali-of-Amino@reddit

The frozen ones are going out of business. One of the major producers just stopped making it.

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undreamedgore@reddit

Squash the vegetables is pretty damn American. Thank god I read thr text.

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SenseNo635@reddit

We have the racquet sport

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TheRealtcSpears@reddit

We used to....

https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/s/tOnJfxmDuM

The main Minute Made brand is discontinued, no idea if others are out there.

Used to go through these daily back in the day, come summer break.

My younger sisters and I would treat these like ice pops on hot days.

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Colodanman357@reddit

Not really. We have frozen juice concentrate, powders like kool-aid, and liquid flavoring stuff to mix with water, but squash the drink is not really a thing here. I first heard about it from reading the book Starship Troopers actually, but haven’t seen it in person.

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TheJokersChild@reddit

We used to. Minute Maid quit making it because it wasn't selling anymore. A relic of prevoius times. We just called it concentrate.

Squash here is either a sport or a gourd we make soup or spaghetti out of.

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