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?!

I accidentally packed a lemon (instead of an orange) for my toddlers snack last week

When mum gives you lemons .......................

Maybe she was having a brain fart.

Piper, I am hoping it is something like that. I just cannot imagine someone getting to the adulthood and not knowing what a lemon is!

Smidge, our photos have appeared now! Maybe MN was also having a brain fart moment...

Maybe all pictures were prevented due to the rude pictures in another thread.

I was thinking maybe she was thrown as it was such a lemony lemon it was confusion.

Maybe

I think I had too much gin with my limes last night feeling fuzzy (like a peach). Thankfully it's a bank holiday here.

Grapefruit is the work of the devil and should not be allowed to sully the wonderfulness of vodka.

Hear hear!

bunnyjo yes! They have now appeared - anyone joining this thread now will wonder what the comments about invisible lemons were all about! Glad it wasn't my ineptitude at technology.

Moln what rude pictures in other threads???! What have I been missing out on? Damn!

Again, in the co-op, I was told that they had no courgettes because they couldn't get them out of the ground!

I know, Smidge, I think we missed out with all this talk of lemons and gin!

Haha, Dawndonna!

Moln it is a bank holiday where I am too, methinks we might by enjoying our respective gins for the same reason.

I'm definitely looking for the apple gin next time I frequent the off licence.

YABU Cucumber is gin surely??

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

That's what I always said when I found out what the Public had selected as the UK's entry for that year's Eurovision contest.

Badum-tish!
I tell you, it's all been downhill since Gina G.

My mother once got asked what a lemon was by a check-out assistant, approximately 15 years ago. She was horrified. I can also report that a chatty elderly gentlemen behind me in an M&S queue once asked me to identify one of the vegetables I was buying, and whether it was nice. It was a butternut squash, and I didn't know, as it was the first time I'd bought one.

I haven't bought one since.

Anyone who buys fennel IBU.

Once, many years ago when I was young and foolish, I ventured beyond the safety of Waitrose and found myself in a fairly run down Tesco (pre all the spangly Tesco Metros).

The dairy aisles were confusing, milk nowhere near butter etc so I asked one of the assistants where the creme fraiche was. He looked baffled for a moment but then very pleased and assured as he marched towards a fridge and proceeded to hand me....

a bottle of whole milk. Saying:

"This is the one with the fresh cream on top. And you're really posh I've never heard it pronounced in French before"

I scuttled back to Waitrose.

Slightly off topic I realise. Apologise for lack of gin.

Just to be on the side of the cashier, was she British? Only asking because where I live lemons are green (before some smart arse pops up, no they're not limes) I've never seen a classic, yellow one. Also some are green on the outside and orange inside.....oh yeah, stick that in your lemonade and drink it

SpinDoctor, nothing is quite as lemony as the UK Eurovision entry each year...

Slightly, oops! I think that I would have ended up with a can of Anchor Squirty if I'd asked for something as exotic as crème fraiche!

tomandizzymum, she was definitely British!

Bunnjo. I have recently re-discovered Anchor Squirty and may have squirted neat cream into my mouth novel or twice it's flipping lovely.

Novel? . Once

Novel squirting... In your mouth? Now, that sounds like a euphemism for something altogether different

My DS aged 3 says it is a "LEMMIN" and "LEMMINS ARE YELLOW".

So it's definitely a lemon. Tbf, it does look like the shape of a guava. My dd loves guavas.

Well, they would be easy to beat in a game of The Travelling Lemon'

This is a guava. Sometimes they're more pointy shaped on the sides like a lemon and bit yellow coloured.

I love guavas! I made myself ill gorging on them when on holiday in Mexico it was not the copious amounts of tequila, oh no, no siree