To expect barman to know what a lemon and lime is.

I said "bar staff" not "pub owners". Because any pub that isnt independently owned, will usually not have a choice what they offer on their menus. It is all decided at corporate level.

As fewer people drink alcohol, and fewer people socialise in pubs, the chain pubs were losing out to the coffee shops. So in order to maximise profits they started selling hot drinks, but the shareholders are not the poor sods being run absolutely ragged on a mad shift and then being asked to make a cup of tea.

They do, but it's rare enough that I've had to explain it to some of the young 'uns, however I have been asked for lager & lime and the person wanted a pint with a slice of lime - which is what the young 'uns usually think lager and lime is - and a reasonable assumption now we have a lot more continental lagers on offer and things like Sol & Desperados which are served with a wedge of lime in the bottle neck.

I mean people get so twisty about stuff like this, it's hardly the end of the world is it, but then for some they do love an opportunity for an eye roll and a good affected sigh and twitter to anyone who'll listen about how they are a victim of such poor service and what's the world coming to?!

I wouldn’t know what that is ? Why don’t you just say lime and lemonade ?

St Clements is oj and bitter lemon, not lemonade

Surely there aren't many bars that don't have lemonade and lime cordial???

I’ve never heard of it

I’ve never worked in a pub with tea / coffee on the menu unless they serve food, and during food service times they usually have waiting staff in addition to bar staff. Tea & coffee during a busy drinks only service is often a massive faff.

”I’d like a pint of lemonade with a splash of lime cordial in it, please.”

He seriously didn’t get that?

Why didn’t you just ask for a lemonade with some lime cordial??

I’ve absolutely no idea what a lemon & lime is. I used to work in a hotel and I’ve been to a lot of pubs and bars and restaurants and I still have no idea what it is.

Why couldn’t you have just explained it??

Another mad thread. Even if you work in a bar and don't know what a lemon & lime is (I do, only I call them lime & lemonade), surely if you say "It's a glass of lemonade with a dash of lime cordial in it", then any reasonable competent person should be able to make one without a crowd building up. It's only two ingredients fgs!

I’ve been asked for really silly things in a bar before. People always ask for things differently. Different terminology and they also mean different things. Some people want a lot of lime in their lemonade and others don’t. It is stressful. One man asked me for a ‘shovel of coal’ thankfully was wise to that one and knew it was a coke. Another asked for a ‘shovel of coal and ginger’ which is a coke and ginger ale - I didn’t know that was a drink!! I let him mix that himself!

He must have missed that day at bar tender school.

On a serious note, it happens. I would have just told him can I have a lemonade with a splash of lime cordial please if he hadn't understood the original order.

Because then the OP could not come onto MN and try and sound superior.

Never heard of it.

If he were a Cockney barman, he'd tell you to look at your watch

Not many but some do! The place I worked there would be the odd customer that would drink it all night, and you wouldn’t be asked for it again for months. Same with the lemon & lime which would be asked for in any of the ways people have mentioned on this thread lol. We also had fresh lemons and limes, so I think my first time I did have to ask someone who had worked there longer. And for lime & soda

That is self explanatory unlike just asking for a lemon and lime.

I remember asking a waitress in the US once for a vodka and coke and she spent what felt like 20 minutes dating, “What, together? In the same glass?! I never heard of that before! I never heard of that…”

Love, I didn’t ask you to write a dissertation on it - I just want you to pour it!

Does anyone remember the thread where someone claimed they had never heard of lemonade - as in the basic fizzy stuff like R-whites lemonade !
Claimed they had never heard of it or seen it in a supermarket EVER in their life 😂😂😂😂

Vodka and lime was my main drink in the early 2000s. Bright green and like paint stripper. The one time it arrived with lemonade in I sent it back. Feeling very nostalgic now.

I order it all the time, I just ask for lemonade with lime cordial and never had any issues.

Again it's the overall attitude that's the problem, not the ordering of a drink.

Wild guess here but I'm assuming she's talking about your overall attitude rather than you asking for a drink....

I've never had this or known anyone who has (interested to try it though as a variation to my usual lime and soda).

My impression these days is that people don't tend to have/ask for drinks where the bartender is expected to know what they are. I was a bartender back in the days when the request for a 'long vodka' was frequent - I would very much expect to have to explain it if I ask for one of those now. At least you didn't ask for a virgin long vodka with no bitters...I would've associated it with what you wanted quicker though!