la·cu·nae and simulacra (sp)

Lacunae: see http://www.lacunae.com .

Simulacra: the simulacrum is basically a failed copy (often a copy several times removed)--its relationship to its model is in some essential way broken.

(I have used both these words in poems!)

I was pondering this last night w/r/t Lemonade. I assume that originally, Lemonade was homemade from lemons and sugar. And then, what with mass production, chemicals, etc. it gradually began to taste less and less like lemon-ade and became the lemonade that we know today.

So, then you arrive at this point where lemonade exists as its own separate entity that bares no resemblance to the original and all we have left is the signifier of lemonade-ness, bereft of the signified. Thus, lemonade (much like fake banana, grape, apple and other 'flavours') is a simulacrum.