Diabolo (drink)

A diabolo is a non-alcoholic mixed drink available in most restaurants and bars in France. It consists of a common lemon soda mixed with syrup. Popular flavours include mint (Diabolo Menthe), strawberry, lemon or grenadine.

Origins
The diabolo drink appeared before 1920, and became popular in France in the 1920s. The drink was around that time described as a mixture of a lemon soda and a 'very light tincture of liqueur', a lemonade and a cassis liquor, or a lemon-lime soda and a syrup.

Translation in other languages
Diabolo has no equivalent in Italian, but a lemon soda mixed with different syrups can approximately be translated as a .

Variants
A diabolo flamand is a cocktail composed of jenever, lemon soda and often a violet syrup.

Popular culture

 * 1977 : Diabolo menthe (Peppermint Soda), movie by Diane Kuris