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

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.

Beginning to think we need a map of who does/doesn't know the term. I'd come across it in the north west and the west midlands.

I didn't know what it was and I worked in bars years ago. Working in a bar doesn't mean you automatically know every single drink that exists.
Like I said no-one ever ordered one and I would have had to ask how to make it. Although I would have made it once you clarified what it was. Are you really saying he didn't understand? That just seems bizarre.

Yes. I was brought up in a pub and often worked behind the bar. Lime and lemonade was very common, but I've never heard anyone asking for a lemon and lime.

I only know this as a '"Lemonade and Lime". I've had it recently in a night out.

No idea. I agree it sounds like a regional thing.

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?

It’s not an age thing, like some people are saying. I am only in my 30s, worked in bar till I was 22 & I would have made you exactly what you were asking for. Maybe it is a regional thing?

I work in a pub and I would have known what you meant. It's a popular drink and older ladies tend to call it lemon and lime.
We have lime, blackcurrant and orange cordial and use a lot of all of them.

I think you were probably a proper pain in the arse though because I don't believe you explained it was a lemonade with a splash of lime cordial and he still didn't understand.
Also The fact that you flounced off with a coffee instead of just getting a lemonade to make a point.

I was in a hotel bar in France last year and ordered a gin and tonic. I proceeded to watch the barman pour the gin, add about half a small bottle of tonic and top it up with soda water. When I cried out in horror 'Stop! Is that water you are putting in my G&T???' he looked a bit confused and said that's how he'd been taught to make it.

Pubs/restaurants don’t usually do zero lemonade

I if you asked me for a lemon and lime, I wouldn't know what it was either. I'd guess it's lemonade with a shot of lime cordial or a squeeze of lime juice in it?

But I would have to ask you.

I've said unreasonable but only because my experience of working bars is they give you so little training- I was shown how the stuff on tap worked, how to pour a spirit measure or a pint and work the till and put to it. There was never any training on the more weird and wonderful names people have for things, so I was stumped whenever people wanted a snakebite or a jagger bomb or even a shandy I had to get a customer to explain to me. I can totally believe a new ish barman wouldn't know.

Or Tia Maria and Baileys as that is what a lot none cocktail type pubs have in, its cheaper.

I've had people try to give me lime and cider before.

That's the trouble with t'fancy cocktails like lemon 'n' lime, these days.

In my day you had a brown ale with t'straw in bottle and a pickled onion on little wooden stick - if you was lucky.

A shot of Kahlua with Baileys floated on the top

I think it's a shooter? Kahlua (or maybe black Sambucca) with Baileys layered on top?

Lemon and lime can go in lemonade, tonic or soda water or even in cranberry or orange juice

So why not just order what you actually want, go crazy

They’re not soft though, angostura bitters are something like 44%! That said you only ever add such a tiny dash it doesn’t really count.

What is a baby Guinness then??? I have no idea? 🤔

I already find lemonade sickly sweet (whether it's real sugar or not), adding syrup to it would make it even worse. Sweet drinks like that always leave me feeling more thirsty and like there's a coating on my teeth.

I'd go soda water with fresh lemon or lime if not drinking drinking.

Similar bar experience, glad it wasn't just me!

You should have ordered a strange coffee after that. Next time ask for a "Long Black"

Having worked in many bars when I was younger - from dives to michelin restaurants, on events, in traditional east end London Pubs and in country pubs - one of the things I always hated was people that came in asking for something by their own special name for it and then treating you like an idiot when you didn’t know. Indeed, it’s often a test some of the (less friendly) regulars like to put new staff through on their first shifts to let you know that this is their place: ‘I’ll have my regular’, or ‘a half and half and a B on the side’… they then get annoyed when you have to ask for details.

Now I’m sure you didn’t do that, but still, help people out a bit. A lemon and lime? That could be a multitude of things, from a flavour of gin, to a slush puppy flavour. Certainly in a pub it could include a wedge or a squeeze of fruit. What you wanted was lemonade and a dash of lime. Not too hard to say that is it? Even just adding ‘ade’ to the end of the word lemon would have been useful…