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

I'm really surprised by the vote - I thought lime and lemonade was a standard pub drink!

Whisky Mac is actually made with Ginger Wine, which is something else entirely, just to add to the confusion!

Can I ask why you think it sounds gross? Lemonade and lime?

Anyway OP, I know what it is, and very surprised at the number of posters who havent, I didn't realise it was so unheard of!

I worked as a barmaid for a week before we parted company with the immortal words “there’s your wage packet and a steak dinner waiting for you upstairs, then that’s us done.”. Spent a happy hour with one customer trying to work out what a Whiskey Mac is. We tried quite a few combinations. I think it was one of the things that contributed to my short lived career

I agree, sounds like they are asking for an American style fizzy pop like a Cream Soda say. Lime AND soda makes all the difference.

To be frank, I would probably stop and think twice about that. And this is from a person who regularly orders a "soda water and lime" and have no problems with people understanding me.

I think it's putting the word "lime" first that is the problem. You appear to be asking for some particular sort of soda water rather than just soda water with lime added.

Not had one for years but craving it now

If I'm driving I drink lime and soda and have yet to visit anywhere that doesn't have lime cordial

I would have guessed what lemon and lime might be but haven't heard it as the name of a drink

I'm missing peppermint lemonade now.

Or anything with lemonade given that anything non-artisan is ruined with digusting artificial sweeteners (and if I want a stonking headache, I'd have gone for alcohol and enjoyed feeling merry first!)

If Roses Lime Cordial is avaliable, lime and soda is lovely and refreshing.

I once made the mistake of asking for a chip butty in a chip shop... chips in a bap... chips in a cob... chips in a barm... chips in a bread roll... eventually I ended up with chips in a grotty sweet burger bun 🤢

I hope that you didn't reply to the poor barman with the same sarcasm and eye roll that you've replied with here.

I know what it is OP, but I must admit I did have to think about it for a few seconds. Used to drink it as a kid and was a barmaid in my student years and pre kids, but it’s a while since I’ve heard it mentioned!

Told this on here before about bitter lemon.

Many years ago we were in a Chinese restaurant and my mother ordered a bitter lemon. Our drinks took AGES and when they finally arrived she got a pint of bitter with a slice of lemon in it.

Completely understandable though given that the guy who was running the bar had grown up in China!

I love a Lime n Lemon. I’d expect them to know what one was too OP
I had one at a country pub last summer after a long hike. DH ordered & they knew what to do.

I had a similar argument with a waiter in a coffee shop. He insisted green tea and peppermint tea are the same as 'peppermint is green' 🙄. I gave up in the end as you can't fix stupid.

St Clements was always made with bitter lemon in my day too.

The really old boys in my pub used to drink Rum and Shrub, and Brandy and Pep. The older ladies drank port and lemon, barleywine, or gin and bitter lemon.

I'd assume you were asking a drink with some lemon and lime and I had missed the first part that was the actual drink 😅

This reminds me of an anecdote about Diane Morgan who was fired from the Last Drop Village Tea Room for serving a cup of tea with cream in it to a customer who asked for a Cream Tea.

It makes total sense really, if you've never known that a Cream Tea was Tea with a Scone with Cream and Jam.

I worked in bars for years and have never heard a lemonade and lime called lemon and lime. Why didn’t you just explain it as a glass of lemonade with a splash of lime in it?

I remember lots of elderly customers ordering a st clements when I first worked behind a bar in the mid 90s. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone order one since the turn of the century. (Britvic orange and bitter lemon where I lived - quite nice).

What is it? All I can hear is Chandler’s voice saying it in friends when they’re handing out Christmas presents.

Joey: and for Ross… Mr Sweet Tooth
Ross: you got me a cola drink?
Chandler: and… a lemon lime!!
Ross: well, this is too much. I should have got you another sweater.

I'm surprised bars still carry lime cordial, I like soda and lime and used to have to really explain that I wanted actual limes not cordial but don't seem to have to anymore. I would've double checked you meant lemonade and lime and not bitter lemon and lime, I would more often hear people ask for lemonade and lime around here.

When I was young I worked in a fairly trendy restaurant and someone ordered a st Clements no one including the manager knew what it was , I did because I'd worked in a local pub with a regular who drank it all the time (orange juice and bitter lemon usually in the UK, OJ lemon juice and soda water in the US).

I also miss the heady days of lager tops, snakebite and black, Guinness and black (with that really artificial blackcurrant cordial in pubs) , my mum used to drink Pernod and black back in the day! I think it's probably because beer in pubs used to be pretty dire lager, so needed something added.

Maybe it’s a regional thing? I’m in my 30s and would have ordered lemon and lime in more ‘traditional’ pubs in the past - that was what it was known as where I grew up. I would probably just ask for lemonade with lime cordial now, as there are so many drinks options in bars these days! It’s a lovely refreshing drink though, so a shame you ended up with a coffee!

I'm completely surprised at bar people on here never having heard it before! I've often ordered a lemonade and lime over the past 30 years and have never had so much as a look of confusion!!

The issue is that she didn't call it a lemonade and lime.

She called it a lemon and lime. It's far more ambiguous than lemonade and lime.

It could be;

Lemonade and Lime Cordial
Lemonade and a slice of Lime
Bitter Lemon and Lime Cordial
Bitter Lemon and a slice of Lime
Sparkling or still water with a slice of Lemon and Lime
7up (brand name of a Lemon and Lime Pop)
A literal lemon and a lime (which my autistic parent genuinely would have handed her without so much as blinking!)

Lemonade and Lime Cordial are totally normal as a drink here in Lancashire too. It's obvious what you're asking for put like that. I've never heard of "a lemon and lime" and can understand why a bar person would need to get have some clarification.

Maybe, but surely if you knew what 'lemonade and lime' meant, you'd realise what they meant by 'lemon and lime'? Or perhaps not...

I really don't think so. There's a lot of room for error. Even with Lemonade and Lime, I'd ask "Lime Cordial or a Slice of Lime?" cos lets face it...what's "Coke and Lime", or "Lemonade and Orange"? Could be Coke with a slice of lime or orange squash and lemonade or fresh orange and lemonade.

My friend was a barmaid here in the North and was bemused on our London trip to be served half a lager and half a guinness in a pub near Tower Bridge when she asked for a Lager and Black! We laughed a lot but could see how the bar man guessed what she meant and arrived at the wrong conclusion.

People should just ask for exactly what they want.

Well clearly the OP just said the same thing but slower and louder …. That always works, right?

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When I started working in a bar someone asked me for a lager and lime, so I served them a pint with a lime wedge in it. Safe to say he was not impressed 😂 maybe give the barman the benefit of the doubt that he just hadn't encountered it before