{"id":17581,"date":"2022-12-13T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shop.movery.it\/limonata-a-cosce-aperte-napoli-2\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T01:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T00:30:51","slug":"limonata-a-cosce-aperte-napoli-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/limonata-a-cosce-aperte-napoli-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Thigh-high lemonade\": from eighteenth-century eau-de-vie makers to the present."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68_1 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/limonata-a-cosce-aperte-napoli-2\/#La_storia_degli_acquafrescai_napoletani\" title=\"The history of the Neapolitan aquafrescai\">The history of the Neapolitan aquafrescai<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/limonata-a-cosce-aperte-napoli-2\/#Ma_perche_viene_chiamata_limonata_a_cosce_aperte\" title=\"But why is it called open-thigh lemonade?\">But why is it called open-thigh lemonade?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">Walking around the city of <strong>Naples<\/strong> you might come across someone drinking a <strong>lemonade <\/strong>with his legs open, intent on not spilling it all over himself: it is a custom that is part of the many Neapolitan traditions, and it is really called \"<strong>open-thigh lemonade<\/strong>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p>Scattered around the city are various <strong>kiosks<\/strong> offering this refreshing drink made from <strong>sparkling water<\/strong>, <strong>lemon<\/strong> And the secret touch...the <strong>bicarbonate<\/strong>! The roots of this tradition go back to the ancient <strong>acquafrescai<\/strong> of Naples, of which <strong>Carolina <\/strong>and <strong>Antonio Guerra<\/strong> have been its spokesmen since 1836: heirs to the <strong>family<\/strong> <strong>Faithful<\/strong>, have carried on this business to the present day without ever leaving the original point of sale in <strong>Trieste Square <\/strong>and<strong> Trento<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"La_storia_degli_acquafrescai_napoletani\"><\/span>The history of the Neapolitan aquafrescai<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As early as the eighteenth century, water, flavored with the taste of <strong>citrus<\/strong> various, was stored in the so-called \"<strong>m\u00f9mmare\"<\/strong>, <strong>amphorae<\/strong> at <strong>terracotta<\/strong> that ensured its freshness during the torrid <strong>summer days<\/strong> as they were transported from one area of the city to another. Many<strong> <\/strong>&#8220;<strong>water banks<\/strong>\" opened to<strong> Saint Lucia<\/strong>, and they were stalls adorned with lemons selling water rich in<strong> minerals <\/strong>which was said to come directly from the <strong>sources<\/strong> of <strong>Mount Echia<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong>Unfortunately, in 1973 the sources of <strong>sulphurous water<\/strong> were closed for reasons of <strong>health <\/strong>and public hygiene; during that period, the <strong>cholera<\/strong> and were reopened directly in 2000 for only 3 years as they were considered to be <strong>dangerous<\/strong> for the <strong>ferrosity<\/strong> Of the water that corroded the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The kiosks sold mostly natural water, sparkling water, the<strong>water <\/strong>&#8220;<strong>vintage<\/strong>\", stored in ice blocks, or even water from <strong>sea<\/strong>, of <strong>river<\/strong>, l'<strong>rosewater<\/strong> or the\"<strong>addirosa<\/strong>\", that is, the one flavored with the<strong> wine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Soon there was no longer even a need to use amphorae for water storage as small kiosks took advantage of the<strong> Greek hypogea<\/strong> present along the historic center as storage; others, however, identified some <strong>clay cavities<\/strong> exploiting its cooling function as was done by the Romans in <strong>Pompeii<\/strong>. The oldest water bank, the Guerra's, was also established at an old Greek hypogeum, which is still clearly visible on the floor today, in fact.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ma_perche_viene_chiamata_limonata_a_cosce_aperte\"><\/span>But why is it called open-thigh lemonade?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Useful to the <strong>digestion<\/strong>, this drink has the particular characteristic of literally exploding out of the glass the moment the bicarbonate comes into contact with the lemon: for this reason, the person who is drinking it instantly spreads his legs wide, preventing it from spilling all over his feet. Ideally, it is best to drink it as quickly as possible so that this does not all end up on the floor. The idea behind the drink is not very far from that of the <strong>sarchiapone<\/strong>, a similar drink that in addition involves only cubes of <strong>ice<\/strong>, thanks to which the explosiveness of the compound is dampened.<\/p>\n<p>As in every corner, gesture and custom of the city, this tradition also tells a piece of its history, that of humble Naples, the one that \"s' sap arrangi\u00e0\" (adapts) with <strong>inventiveness<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking around Naples, you will come across little kiosks intent on selling \"explosive\" drinks: we are...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[313],"tags":[],"locations":[167,208],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sapori-tipici","locations-campania","locations-napoli"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movery.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/locations?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}