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Lemon sour

type of soda drink

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ6521335 ↗
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Lemon sour is a type of soda made by various vendors, often used in many mixed drinks. There are also alcoholic variants sold in Japan.

The Schweppes brand of lemon sour is sold by Coca-Cola. Canada Dry's lemon sour was sold by Dr Pepper/Seven Up.

Lemon sour is also a popular soda in Japan, where is it sold as an alcopop by Suntory (Kodawari Sakaba no Lemon Sour) and Coca-Cola (Lemon-dou).

In popular culture

Lemon sour was referenced in the 88rising album "Head in the Clouds", specifically in the song Japan 88, featuring Famous Dex, Keith Ape and the one who mentioned it, Verbal.

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The public source identifies “Lemon sour” as type of soda drink. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lemon, sour and type.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lemon sour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.