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.

Baileys and Tia Maria…..there’s actually no Guinness in it at all.🤣🤣🤣
( It just looks like Guinness )

We are on the same page Pyong

Yeah I have worked in or run many pubs and have never heard it called juice. This is in the midlands. Ask for lime and soda or lime and lemonade and you will get cordial.

Sounds nice but wouldn’t have heard of it before, maybe it’s just popular where you are from and the bar man wasn’t from there

Yep know the term.
Grew up in Hertfordshire area and definitely heard people ordering it their

My dh has heard of it….Isle of Sheppey 🐑🐑🐑

Lemonade with lime cordial.

bless him, you could have just told him?

I have never come across snyone who drinks lime cordial with lemonade either. I often drink soda water with lime cordial in it and so do lots of other people I know. I ask for a lime and soda.

I remember red witch from my student days.

Oooh I used to love a vodka with lemonade and lime, but that was back in the early 2000s, so it’s probably old fashioned now!

I wouldn't know what you meant by a lemon and lime. I don't believe that you went on to tell him "just a lemonade with a bit of lime cordial in" and he disnt understand that. My guess is that when he didn't initially understand "lemon and lime", you wanted to make some kind of point so acted in a 'never mind 🙄" kind of manner and asked for a coffee instead.

Horses for courses I’m afraid. I love a St Clements (now there’s a retro drink 🤣). But appreciate that the average drinker of one would probably be my Gran’s age so always say “Orange Juice and Bitter Lemon please” now just in case, as I found some bartenders stared at me blankly.

Weird that he couldn’t understand “Lemonade with Lime Cordial” though if that’s what you clarified. I can only guess he was new or that they have few people ordering anything with cordial now instead of juice. Maybe if you’d said “Lime Squash” instead of cordial he might have got it. I find a lot of bartenders need to clarify the juice vs squash/cordial thing.

I call it that but I'm 67 so that's probably why.

Surely a lemonade would have been closer to what you wanted than a coffee? And when it arrived you could have asked for some lime cordial in it?

It's lemonade with lime juice added. It's a standard non-alcoholic drink. Two people I went to the pub with last night had it with no problems. A barkeep who doesn't know what this drink is must be pretty ignorant.

I was a barmaid for years. Had never, ever heard of this or had anyone order it until I met my in laws.

They however order specifically what they want from the beginning "Hi there. Can I please have a pint of lemonade with a dash of lime if you have it".

It is arrogant to assume people will know what a drink is, especially thinking that a bartender will know every non alcoholic mixed drink going.

I've been a barmaid in my time and you're the kind of customer I hated dealing with. Entitled and snobby.

Yes if I wanted that and it appeared bar staff didn't understand I'd be more specific.

I encounter confusion though when I say I only want 2 ice cubes 😆

Always get more.

Get over yourself.

If it was genuinely his first day, surely he would have turned to someone else who’d worked there longer and asked what to do? Unless he was lazy (like some people I worked with definitely were!)

Actually it’s lime cordial which rather different to lime juice (something that comes directly out of a lime). ‘Pretty ignorant’ of you not to know there’s a difference…

Just to counter this. I've had it. It isn't gorgeous. It's very sweet and artifical citrus like.

Actually I was thinking that! If I was in a pub and wanted non alcohol I'd ask for water and lime slices if not tea or coffee

Quite. I love a soda and lime slices.or sparkling water and lemon.

To be fair I think that depends on the place and the set up of the bar. I’ve worked in some with a proper coffee machine and boiling water still behind the bar, and others where someone would have to bugger off to the kitchen and stand waiting for a domestic kettle to boil. The latter is a pain if the bar is busy, the former not an issue at all.