Fruit (slang) fruit" (and rarely "old tin of fruit") to the 1920s in Britain possibly deriving from the phrase "fruit of the womb". In the United States, however, both "fruit" and "fruitcake" are seen as negative with fruitcake likely originating from "nutty as a fruitcake" (a crazy person). A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words "costard" (a type of apple) and "monger", i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall. Costermongers have existed in London
Fruit beer make fruitbeer the fruit, fruit juice or fruit syrup is added (instead of sugar) to the first brew and refermented, these may be termed fruit lambics or fruit beers, depending on the type of first brew. Beer that has fruit syrup or fruit lemonade added after (the finale stage of) fermentation, in other words as a flavouring are termed "Radlers" ("Shandy" in the UK) definitely not fruit beer. Fruit beer Fruit beer is beer made with fruit added as an adjunct or flavouring. Lambics, beers originating in the valley of the Zenne (in an around Brussels) Belgium, though copied by