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 asked for brussel sprouts near Christmas at my local Sainsburys (the small one) and the shop assistant didn't have a clue, same shop in the summer asked for Pimms, same puzzled face :-)

Yes, peaches = fuzzy, nectaries = smooth.

You can get different varieties of each (usually yellow or white), blood nectarines are amazing (my neighbour grows them).

I love feijoas too and kiwiberries, I loved eating those when I lived in NZ. I did once see kiwiberries here (Scotland) in Asda once. They were extortionate but I bought them anyway.

DecaffCoffeeAndRollupsPlease never had noni fruit. Does it taste like guavas? In which case I'll give it a skip

I live in the back of beyond, the only fruit we have is what's grown locally. Luckily we have range of crazy fruit that you will never see on a supermarket shelf!

We have feijoa. As everyone seems keen, I'll have to give them a try.

I spent several years working in a supermarket so am reasonably au fait with a range of fresh produce.

I am reminded of the time when a chap came to my till with an aubergine. I must have not put it through in the nano second he thought appropriate and yelled at me "That is an AUBERGINE. Au-ber-gine. Do you hear me? AUBERGINE. You have no idea do you, stupid girl. Au-ber-gine. You'll find it under 'O'".

The lad on the checkout behind me was hysterical. I was almost crying with laughter.

manchestermummy, but calling you a "stupid girl" is really beyond the pale.

tomandizzymum

Well not as bad as a friends house mate asking the shopworker if they had syphiliss when they meant physalis (chinese lanterns)

Oh bankWadger, you'll be pleased to know it's not in fruit. (or whatever they call it). So I cannot bask in feijoa abundance!

BreakingDad77

Reminds me of my cousins wife (Italian). She came in from the garden and told my aunt that she loved her clitorus!! She meant Clematis.

Lol tomandizzymum

OP - maybe your checkout lady needed some lemon-aid...

btw gin with pineapple is lush

lisamed bada boosh!

Yes, checkout lady obviously doesn't know much about the world...or as the French call it,
"le mon(de)" .

My MIL asked for a Dubonnet and bitter lemon and got ....

Dubonnet and a bit of lemon !

Mind you she has a faux posh voice when socialising !

Haha, after a hard evening of study I have just read the latest comments and it been a tonic... Geddit? Tonic? gets one's coat

Trumpton Reminds me of when I went to a bar on a date and when to order an appletise and lemonade and the women poured the two into the same glass!

Funniest thing I was ever asked was at a fast food takeaway when I was asked if I wanted a spoon....to eat my salad! I said pardon several times as I thought surely I was hearing her wrong! Nope she asked again and again if I wanted a spoon, erm no thanks just a knife and fork please

I had this issue in Tesco with a grapefruit (I can kind of, maybe, understand that) and a sweet potato. I'm not aware of any other vegetable resembling a sweet potato!

Manchestermummy: this reminds me of when I unwisely coloured my hair just after having my DS. Instead of a nice subtle golden brown it went a kind of purple and I rang the helpline on the box. The advisor said 'Well what colour is it?' I replied 'It's a sort of aubergine colour' and she said 'Green??' Turned out she was thinking of avocado.

I was once asked by a checkout guy in the Co-op as he held up my cauliflower "Is this an individual?"

And when ordering an encyclopeadia from an educational book stockist and offering my address "...Badgers Close" she asked " As in the bird?"

Our local supermarket used to have two laminated sheets on the checkout for scanning, with photos. One for fruit, one for veg. I was buying parsnips and the checkout assistant was having trouble finding them on her sheet. Until I kindly pointed out that parsnips would be on the veg sheet, not on the fruit one she was puzzling over.

Memories of a long boozy Christmas long ago,pre children. The champagne was gone, all the wines were gone, the brandy bottle was empty, as was the port. And a friend remembered he'd a bottle of gin at home. Went off to fetch it, but he had no mixers and, of course, all the shops were closed. So we drank gin and alka seltzer

Funny that a post on lemon has ended up as a post on drinks. :-)

I am a bit weird. I eat lemons. Like peel them and everything. I always eat the bits in a G&T aswell. (even if they're disguised as limes)