*boggles*

[deird_lj]

Does the rest of the world seriously NOT have lemon lime and bitters?

(By which I mean the drink known as LL&B - I'm aware that you guys have lemons.)


o.O

How will I survive?

Comments

[spiralleds.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose it's similar to what we call Ginger Ale. When I knew how to make it during my brief stint in restaurant work, IIRC it was part Sprite, part soda water, and a dash of bitters.

[kirby1024.livejournal.com]

So, add LL&B kit to the care package then? :)

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

It sounds like something I should try sometime. But I have no idea what "bitters" taste (tastes?) like... I usually don't do so well with bitter flavors...

From Laney

[(Anonymous)]

Now you've got me trying to remember how to order a Lemon Squash in England.
Because, of course, you never need to specify here.

I finally worked it out after lots of pub visits... and lots of drinks of lemonADE.

And now I can't even remember what it was!

[washa-way.livejournal.com]

Now if you were talking about just bitter (singular), I could safely say you were in luck, because you could walk into any pub in England and order a shandy (which I rather enjoy, despite being a Yank, but of course I love bitter as well... and lager, and stout, and porter, and pale ales, and heifewessen, and so on and so forth.)

But as for a lemon-lime and bitterS, nope, I don't know that I've ever heard of such a thing until now.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of the stuff before.....'course, I'm not English.

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon,_Lime_&_Bitters
fifty meellion??
Wowee. I thought it was more of a girly drink no-one really had, but I guess I'm wrong.

[ib-stormcaller.livejournal.com]

They have Angostura bitters, cause i know my grandparents use it to make Pink Gins (G&T with 3-5 drops of bitters)...

The rest of the ingredients shouldn't be too much of a problem :)

[carlos-v-b.livejournal.com]

The English also don't appear to be aware of mud cake.

[klme.livejournal.com]

REALLY?

[padawanspider.livejournal.com]

Allright, awright, awright. Give me some brand names of the stuff that I'm looking for - the cordial, lemonade, and bitters. Apparently there are about a billion different meanings for each of those words, and without something specific... anyway.

I'm gonna have to hit up World Market one of these days and see if I can find any of it.

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Roses (or similar) Lime Cordial? Angostura Bitters? If these are the things you need, pubs in Britain have them. Also much fizzy lemony stuff to mix.

We are civilised, no?

I mean, you'd have to spell it out for the bar staff (except, presumbly for all the Aussies), but the fixings are there.

lemon squash

[(Anonymous)]

According to my family archives, lemon squash in a pub is indeed "bitter lemon".