Apples and Pears?

So I recently read an article which is about an subject has got my goat for a long while, OK so not exactly real ale but close to it.

After being a student for 3 or so years I will admit I have drank my fair share of barrel scrapings but Personally my pet hate is pear cider. Not only does it taste so sweet and sickly it gives me a headache but the name is so contradictory!

Pear Cider?

Oxford Dictionary clearly states that cider is "an alcoholic drink made from the juice of fermented apples" APPLES! As any sane person who drinks properly knows that it is PERRY which is an alcoholic drink that is made from fermented PEARS!  (apparently the words both come from Middle English 12th to 15th century yadda yadda)

I cannot count the numbers of times I have had this argument with numerous people while going purple in the face because really, they don't care. They like the sweet fruity drink that gets the drunk! So in the end I just sit mumbling to myself and moving onto darker and darker ales to get me as far away as possible from the perry dressed up as the more marketable 'cider' Infuriating.


Rant over.



*Edit*
3 days after this post I went into work and guess what they had got in! 'Pear Cider' my my head nearly exploded! The Rekorderlig Cider which, to be fair is a nice cider, but the 'pear cider' is one step too far. I then went onto tell my bar supervisor my qualms about this product, he looked bemused and told me he like how I had displayed it in the fridges. Water off a ducks back that one.