to think that all adults should instantly recognise what a lemon looks like?

[Bunnyjo]

Just went to my local cooperative store as I needed a lemon for a dish I was cooking. I take said lemon to the till with a few other items which the checkout assistant begins scanning.

She gets to the lemon and, I shit you not, says to me, "What is this?" I didn't know whether to or but I managed to utter, "Lemon, it's a lemon!"

As I also bought a bottle of wine on a school night! I know that she must have been at least 18!

So, MN, AIBU? Are lemons some exotic rarity that most people have not been exposed to?!

My dh is 48:years old & doesn't know what a parsnip is. He calls them radishes. I've corrected him a million times and yet he still persists in his perverse radish nonsense. (Native english speaker by the way). Thank fuck he's not in charge of a till at the co-op.

But the lemon was very yellow

Did she think it was a banana?

Saucy DP and I refer to said retail establishment as the unco-operative.

I once stood there for two minutes watching them look for the price on the front of a road map that I wanted to buy.

It was printed on the front in three inch high letters that I pointed out to them several times, but for some reason they didn't want to sell it to me at that price and it scanned do at a different price, or wouldn't scan at all, I can't remember.

BankWadger, quite possibly!

All this talk of gin and lemon is making me want one!

Bunnyjo if you looked up lemon in a dictionary, your lemon would be the picture next to the word and description!

I am often at youngsters lack of knowledge these days!

Smidge you get me a hot sunny day and I will gladly try out a vodka lime and soda .

This thread has made me want a decent drink. I wonder if I can persuade the cat to make me one.

Actually I stopped using real lemons in my gin some time ago. I use Jif. And green olives.

OP there is surely no mistaking that lemon for a lime. I wonder what else you could have said it was that she'd have believed....

I had this once with Asparagus or Aubergine, I don't remeber which. I thought that was bad but a lemon?

My favourite checkout moment was a few years ago now.. Was in blockbusters (I told you it was a long time ago) booking out a couple of films but couldn't find my membership card...'no problem says helpful checkout guy, I'll look it up on computer' ' what's your surname' ... I spell it out cos I was married to foreigner ... Mrs K.I.T.T.E.N.S - I... I am stopped in my tracks whilst helpful assistant leans back to colleague and shouts 'Oi ! Bill, how do you spell hyphen. Gobsmacked, he wasn't a teenager, about thirty ..

I had this in Morrisons with a tomato once.

I shit you not.

Vodka, soda and lime is awesome and very cheap! Also I like bitter lemon and I'm only 24

Could she have been colourblind?

If the lemon had been more rounded, or green tinged, I could have understood her confusion. But, my photo on the third attempt is MOST DEFINITELY A LEMON!

Unless it's some checkout operator game as flora717 suggests...

Lemon very apt nickname I think you might win with the tomato!

With a tomato?
Someone didn't l now what a tomato was?
Or a lemon?

Bet they can distinguish every single Kardashian though.

Maybe she was confused as it's in half.

I don't know anyone who buys fruit for the purposes of adding to alcohol. Plenty of drinking done but I know no-one, at all, who bothers with the fruit at home.

Maybe she thought it was a baby grapefruit

Maybe she meant what code is it being super generous given my knowledge of the local Unco-op!!

Perhaps she was dyslexic and couldn't work out if it was a lemon or a melon.

I sent DH to buy me some fennel once. He rang up because he was confused. I said read the labels or ask a nice lady AND DON'T ASK ME STUPID QUESTIONS.

Obviously I am not a nice lady.

Actually lol'd at the invisible lemon. I had a checkout operator ask me what a swede was once but a lemon is more easily identified!

Holepunch, I can assure you that there is only one reason that there is a lemon and a lime in my shopping basket. And it's not because I'm using them in cooking.

Useful tip, you can freeze individual slices of lemon and lime and use them frozen if you have run out of ice. Drink is cold and you still have the fruit. There might be a bag full of such slices in my freezer. At the front. Where I can get to them quickly. And easily. Just saying.