Page 4 | To expect barman to know what a lemon and lime is.

girlfriend44 · 2025-04-09T18:57:03+00:00

Couldn't believe it today. Had this drink loads with no problem. Barman had no clue what a lemon and lime was. Gave up and ordered something else, a coffee instead.

sakura06 · 10/04/2025 07:58

Lemon and lime is my favourite soft drink!

I once ordered a Tia Maria with orange juice, but the barman gave me orange squash cordial undiluted 🫣

AthWat · 10/04/2025 07:41

Londonrach1 · 10/04/2025 07:36

That's strange. Order it a lot as so refreshing and never had anyone not know what it is. It's a bar staple I'd say.

Lemonade with lime cordial is, but not under the name "lemon and lime". It has pretty much been established that this seems to be a minority, probably regional term that most people, at a quick estimate, have not heard used.

AthWat · 10/04/2025 07:38

Grammarnut · 09/04/2025 23:49

It's lemonade with lime juice added. It's a standard non-alcoholic drink. Two people I went to the pub with last night had it with no problems. A barkeep who doesn't know what this drink is must be pretty ignorant.

Why would you come on a thread, nine pages in, where a huge number of participants have already said that they have never heard "lemon and lime" used to refer to lemonade with lime cordial, and say this?
Do you just read the OP and then comment on it without reading any of the responses?

Londonrach1 · 10/04/2025 07:36

That's strange. Order it a lot as so refreshing and never had anyone not know what it is. It's a bar staple I'd say.

RampantIvy · 10/04/2025 07:34

I think the confusion is in the name.
Lemon and lime doesn't sound like lemonade and lime.

I used to drink St Clements a pp referred to.

Movingonup313 · 10/04/2025 07:21

I would assume it was water with a slice of lemon and slice of lime.

KewTitles · 10/04/2025 07:17

PyongyangKipperbang · 09/04/2025 22:55

As far as bar staff are concerned there is a special place in hell for people who order hot drinks in pub, especially tea.

Most places now have a automatic coffee machine but the tea is a faff and in the time it takes you make one, you have a queue of people all of whom you could have served in the time it took to make one fucking tea. At home, bag in cup, water in, take out bag, add milk. At work.....tea pot,milk jug, sugar sticks blah blah.

No, you want tea go to a cafe. You want coffee? Fuck off to Costa. Sorry but there it is.

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Just a mad suggestion, but maybe these pubs could take it off the menu rather than blaming customers for ordering it?

KewTitles · 10/04/2025 07:14

Sunflowerhoneybee · 10/04/2025 00:01

I've been a barmaid in my time and you're the kind of customer I hated dealing with. Entitled and snobby.

Yeah, God forbid anyone should expect to be able to order a simple drink.

KewTitles · 10/04/2025 07:11

AprilShowers25 · 09/04/2025 20:23

Lemon and lime is not clear. Lime and lemonade is what it’s called. You probably annoyed him with your incredulous tone then he couldn’t be arsed with listening to your explanation.

Ridiculous. It’s his job! You don’t get to not be “arsed”.

RampantIvy · 10/04/2025 06:58

CuriousGeorge80 · 10/04/2025 04:23

It’s my go to non-alcoholic drink in a bar or pub, but I am explicit by what I mean (lemonade with lime cordial) as loads of people don’t seem to know it.

In Australia even when you are that explicit they give it to you with soda in my experience 😂

In my experience lime cordial with soda is more commonly drunk than lime cordial with lemonade.

Do people still drink lager and lime these days?

CuriousGeorge80 · 10/04/2025 04:23

It’s my go to non-alcoholic drink in a bar or pub, but I am explicit by what I mean (lemonade with lime cordial) as loads of people don’t seem to know it.

In Australia even when you are that explicit they give it to you with soda in my experience 😂

LadyGaGasPokerFace · 10/04/2025 03:48

I’ll have a Babycham please 🦌

Sugarnspicenallthingsnaice · 10/04/2025 02:48

Grammarnut · 09/04/2025 23:49

It's lemonade with lime juice added. It's a standard non-alcoholic drink. Two people I went to the pub with last night had it with no problems. A barkeep who doesn't know what this drink is must be pretty ignorant.

Oh my word.

Most people serving drinks at a bar aren't doing it as a profession and they didn't have to sit an exam first.

People learn as they go. Once some shirty punter has pointed out that lemon doesn't actually mean lemon, they'll be OK next time I'm sure.

CandidExpert · 10/04/2025 01:33

Latenightreader · 10/04/2025 01:26

I had a friend who used to call squash 'diluting juice' or sometimes just juice. I wish I could remember where she was from...

Scotland?

Latenightreader · 10/04/2025 01:26

I had a friend who used to call squash 'diluting juice' or sometimes just juice. I wish I could remember where she was from...

kanaka · 10/04/2025 01:15

I’ve only heard this drink called lime and lemonade. I’m nearly 50.

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girlfriend44 · 10/04/2025 00:52

Sunflowerhoneybee · 10/04/2025 00:01

I've been a barmaid in my time and you're the kind of customer I hated dealing with. Entitled and snobby.

😂 what for asking for a drink I'd ordered plenty of times in other pubs and never had any problem.

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CheeseWisely · 10/04/2025 00:51

OneFineDay22 · 09/04/2025 22:48

I tried to order a cup of tea last year in a place in Yorkshire (my mum’s home town) and EVERYBODY present seemed to react like I was asking for the Earth. The two women behind the bar had a mini argument about who was going to have to make it. Surely they both make tea at home?

To be fair I think that depends on the place and the set up of the bar. I’ve worked in some with a proper coffee machine and boiling water still behind the bar, and others where someone would have to bugger off to the kitchen and stand waiting for a domestic kettle to boil. The latter is a pain if the bar is busy, the former not an issue at all.

Middleagedstriker · 10/04/2025 00:16

CalicoPusscat · 10/04/2025 00:13

Actually I was thinking that! If I was in a pub and wanted non alcohol I'd ask for water and lime slices if not tea or coffee

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Quite. I love a soda and lime slices.or sparkling water and lemon.

CalicoPusscat · 10/04/2025 00:13

Middleagedstriker · 10/04/2025 00:07

Just to counter this. I've had it. It isn't gorgeous. It's very sweet and artifical citrus like.

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Actually I was thinking that! If I was in a pub and wanted non alcohol I'd ask for water and lime slices if not tea or coffee

Middleagedstriker · 10/04/2025 00:07

girlfriend44 · 09/04/2025 20:12

It's lemonade with some lime cordial.
Served with some ice, it's a gorgeous drink on a warm day.🙄

Just to counter this. I've had it. It isn't gorgeous. It's very sweet and artifical citrus like.

MumbleBumbleAppleCrumble · 10/04/2025 00:07

Grammarnut · 09/04/2025 23:49

It's lemonade with lime juice added. It's a standard non-alcoholic drink. Two people I went to the pub with last night had it with no problems. A barkeep who doesn't know what this drink is must be pretty ignorant.

Actually it’s lime cordial which rather different to lime juice (something that comes directly out of a lime). ‘Pretty ignorant’ of you not to know there’s a difference…

OneFineDay22 · 10/04/2025 00:03

If it was genuinely his first day, surely he would have turned to someone else who’d worked there longer and asked what to do? Unless he was lazy (like some people I worked with definitely were!)

Sunflowerhoneybee · 10/04/2025 00:03

Grammarnut · 09/04/2025 23:49

It's lemonade with lime juice added. It's a standard non-alcoholic drink. Two people I went to the pub with last night had it with no problems. A barkeep who doesn't know what this drink is must be pretty ignorant.

Get over yourself.

CalicoPusscat · 10/04/2025 00:02

Yes if I wanted that and it appeared bar staff didn't understand I'd be more specific.

I encounter confusion though when I say I only want 2 ice cubes 😆

Always get more.