Sources generally credit lemonade as the beverage behind the trend. The term, which came from the French limonade, was in print by the mid-17th century. “Captain, make some Lemonade,” one character says in Thomas Killigrew’s play The Parson’s Wedding, first performed around 1640 and published in 1664. Lemonado, a variant based on the Spanish limonada, also cropped up in 17th-century English plays, Read more