Lebanon: Jokes over Hezbollah leader’s lemonade advice
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It didn’t take long for social media users to poke fun at the statement, with some dubbing lemonade “Hezbollah’s official drink”. Many adopted the term Qalamounada, a mash up of the Arabic word for lemonade - lamounada - and the site of a current Hezbollah battle in the Qalamoun mountains of Syria. “I’m inviting you for a Qalamounada,” one Twitter user declared after the speech. On Facebook, one man jokes that lemon prices have risen and supplies are running low since the Hezbollah leader “prescribed” it.
And the impact isn’t just on the internet. Al-Akhbar says cafe owners are offering free lemonade to mark every speech he gives, while another report says shop owners in Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold have hung up signs advertising fresh “Nasrallah lemonade”.