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

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Couldn't believe it today. Had this drink loads with no problem.

Barman had no clue what a lemon and lime was. Gave up and ordered something else, a coffee instead.

A shot of Kahlua with Baileys floated on the top

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Pubs/restaurants don’t usually do zero lemonade

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

I would say lime juice and lemonade.
Coincidentally, I ordered a lime juice and soda in a pub today, for the first time since about 1978. Delicious.

Would you want lime juice and lemonade though, or lime cordial and lemonade?

I worked in bars and hotels as a student 1977 to 1982 or so. I wouldn't have known. I might have thought she meant something like Schweppes bitter lemon.

Now many bars will have real limes- i don't think I'd have thought of lime cordial but she meant a slice of lime.

he was just an asshole. That’s not a what Americans call a jack and coke… we shockingly call it a… wait for it… Jack and coke!

It’s my regular order. I’m 35, so not old fashioned. Never had an issue with it.

I would want cordial, but it lime cordial tends to get called 'lime juice' in pubs.
Actually soda with fresh lime juice would be a good drink too, more refreshing and less sugary, but I've never seen if offered.

was he foriegn? regular thing to ask for in the north east of england x

That might be regional as well then because I've never known anyone call it lime juice.