Social media has once again peeled back the curtain to reveal something about Chick-fil-A Lemonade that a lot of us have wondered about for years. I have to admit, I am a fan of the lemonade of Chick-fil-A but I have never really given a lot of thought to how they created their tasty brew, although technically it isn't brewed at all.

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A Chick-fil-A worker posted a video on the social media platform where he shows in great detail how the franchise creates its "diet lemonade". Now the Chik-fil-A website says the classic diet lemonade is made with only three ingredients. Those are real lemon juice not from concentrate, Splenda No Calorie Sweetener, and water.

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And as we look at the video posted by @slimeball.ceey on Tik Tok we see exactly what the recipe suggests, however, there is certainly something missing that I think a lot of us were expecting. Namely, fresh lemons. Here, watch for yourself, and then we'll discuss.

I was kind of thinking there should be lemons and lemon peels everywhere but alas, Chick-fil-A can no longer pull the wool over my eyes. A lot of commenters on @slimeball.ceey's video were just as perplexed as me.

They wanted to see lemons getting squeezed. One commenter, a former employee at Chick-fil-A even said they actually had to squeeze lemons when he was behind the counter, so maybe the lemon pulp pouch is a new innovation.

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Now that has gotten me wondering if other franchise restaurants take shortcuts with their lemonade. Does Raising Cane's use hand-squeezed lemons or do they use pulp? Or do they, use a powder mix?

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Raising Cane's, Facebook
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According to this website that specializes in copycat recipes they say Cane's uses lemon juice but they don't disclose whether it's fresh squeezed, fresh in a bag, fresh from frozen concentrate, or some other lemon juice elixir blended especially for them.

According to the Cane's website, it says "fresh-squeezed lemonade". I guess we'll have to wait on a Raisin' Canes Tik Tok to go viral before we find out for sure.

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