Lemon in my water tastes like I’ve licked a deodorant stick, for some reason. Hate it.
And I DESPISE the default lemon in my hefeweizen but ESPECIALLY in my god damned witbier! Lemon! Out! Of! My! Hoegaarden! NOW!
I take the lemon wedge out of the glass, pop it in my mouth and chew the whole thing down - rind, rag and pulp. yum-tarty-yum yum.
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger]
Yes! That’s what I’ve been saying for years! Either lemon Pledge or lemon dishwashing detergent – in any case, totally nasty!
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Ha! I’m glad someone finally agrees with me - all my friends laughed and said “when’s the last time you drank lemon pledge” when I said this!
Huh…most bars around here (including the restaurant I work for) give an orange slice (nor wedge…always a round slice) with Hefewiezens and white beers.
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger]
What I can’t forgive? Is no straw, except at a very fancy place where straws probably don’t exist. But in that case, I just ask for cold water without ice. Heck, I’m paying for the privilege, might as well let someone strain the ice out for me!
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I can’t drink anything cold without a straw because of my messed up teeth. I mean I can, but it’s a very tricky and uncomfortable physical maneuver and there is always still the risk of getting cold on my teeth and then it’s all I can do not to scream in pain. I don’t care how fancy your restaurant is–gimme a straw, dammit!
[QUOTE=Meyer6]
Oh yeah, that stuff was liquid evil. It was exactly what I imagine drinking lemon pledge would be like.
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I was so excited about it, too. I love diet Coke! I love putting lemons in Diet Coke! Why wouldn’t I love Diet Coke with Lemon?
It turns out they marketed it with the wrong name. The original name was Lemon Lemon Lemon Fake Horribly Lemony Flavor with a tiny bit of Coke and more Fucking Lemon, Goddamn.
Sort of like the carbonated beverage version of Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam, and Spam?
Blah, I haaaate lemon. I’ll pick it out the second the glass get’s to my table, but if the water is too lemony, I’ll ask for a new one. I also can’t stand it (though it’s really no ones fault) if my water came out of a gun that just had soda going though it. I feel extra picky, but many times I’ve sent my water back because I can taste the Coke/Sprite/whatever in my water that had come out of the gun right before it. Like I said, I feel picky when I do it, but I really dislike soda and won’t drink the water if it tastes like that.
There is a bartender at a bar that my father and I frequent that knows she has to pour my vodka tonic before my dad’s rum and coke so my tonic doesn’t taste like his coke (or water if I just get a glass of water). She’ll also spray the gun in the drain for a second if she knows something else just came out of it. And that’s why she get’s an extra big tip from us when we leave.
The water tastes terrible out of the tap here in Vegas. I’m not exaggerating when I say I’d rather go thirsty than drink tap water.
The lemon doesn’t do much to make the awful taste go away, though. I don’t know why resteraunts insist on doing it.
I don’t mind it, but I rarely see it as the default. Today, for example, I had lunch at a P. F. Chang’s. No lemon in my water.
[QUOTE=Coldfire]
Forget soft drinks. What’s really annoying is lemon in your beer. Over here in Europe, it started out as mostly a German thing. They’d toss a slice of lemon in their Weizen beers (bastardised in most languages to white beers). As a result of German tourism, every damn bar in Holland now adds a slice to any white beer you order. You have to specifically ask for the damn fruit to be kept out of your beer.
Ah, bless the Belgians. They’d chop your fricking head off for even ASKING for lemon in your white beer. And by God, they’re right.
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Yes, the Belgians know their beer.
If you cross the border from Southern California into Baja, they often give you a slice of lime alongside a beer. It was a fad a few years ago, supposedly making it more “tropical,” propagated, I think, by publicity for that piss-water called “Corona.” At least they don’t put it in the beer, and you can just ignore it.
But at home, when I do drink Coke, which is rare, I usually squeeze some lemon or lime in, because it’s so damn sweet. At a restaurant, they really should serve it on the side, and let the customer decide whether to squeeze it into water or a soft drink.
[QUOTE=Solfy]
In Youngstown the lemon was necessary to hide the vile taste of the water.
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Oh, but that water was SO wonderful tasting compared to the water in Tucson (I moved to Tucson from Youngstown). I’m still having trouble with the taste of the water here, 8 months since arriving.
[QUOTE=chaoticbear]
I like to put lemon in diet Coke. But the Diet Coke with Lemon that they marketed some years ago? Disgusting. Cherry is the only artificial flavor in sodas that I can get behind. Leave your chocolate, vanilla, lime and lemon out of my beverages!
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That is the only thing I’ve ever eaten or drunk that scared me - apparently I had an unknown allergy/sensitivity to something in the flavoring, because I drank some and my heart started racing. I never tried it again, though I don’t recall particularly liking it anyway.
And I don’t mind lemon in my water at restaurants.
[QUOTE=Coldfire]
Ah, bless the Belgians. They’d chop your fricking head off for even ASKING for lemon in your white beer. And by God, they’re right.
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“Shut up, Flanders!”
No pommes-frites-stuffing polyglot monarchist is going to make me feel guilty about enjoying a bit of lemon in my Hefeweiße…
[QUOTE=Lsura]
Oh, but that water was SO wonderful tasting compared to the water in Tucson (I moved to Tucson from Youngstown). I’m still having trouble with the taste of the water here, 8 months since arriving. <snip>
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You know what toasts my muffins? Here in Calgary, we have better water coming out of our taps than the questionable stuff in bottles, and thousands of people refuse to drink it. Everything has to be bottled and filtered. Damn, people. We get our water straight off a glacier, it’s altered just enough so that it is completely safe to drink, it’s tested six ways to Sunday, and they still insist on drinking bottled water that has far fewer regulations on it, AND creates a ton of plastic waste, to boot.
Our water tastes good, too. Mmm, water.
[QUOTE=Lsura]
Oh, but that water was SO wonderful tasting compared to the water in Tucson (I moved to Tucson from Youngstown). I’m still having trouble with the taste of the water here, 8 months since arriving.
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Mmmmm. CAP water.
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip]
“Shut up, Flanders!”
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Win.
[QUOTE=Meyer6]
I keep hearing about this lemon = dangerous thing. I don’t get it - when did we get the idea that our food should be sterile? There’s bacteria on everything, and there’s really no getting away from it. What if they tested the forks, or plates, or the straw that comes with your drink?
I mean, I’m not going to start eating off the floor or anything, but I have an immune system ,and I’m not afraid to use it!
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Word. You can’t live without bacteria.
Who wants sugar in their lemonade? Give me lemon, and water. No sugar. Actually, you can hold the water, too…
[QUOTE=Meyer6]
Oh yeah, that stuff was liquid evil. It was exactly what I imagine drinking lemon pledge would be like.
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Funny you should mention this. I do like lemon in my water, so I thought I would appreciate the bottle of owater that I got for lunch. Mmmm, bottled water with “natural” lemon and lime flavors and no sweeteners! Sounds great, but it’s not. Oh boy, it is so not. Lemon Pledge is exactly the product that came to mind upon the first nasty swig of it. I’m so disappointed that the great potential of this product is wasted.
In any case, the unfinished bottle is sitting on my desk and I use it to dampen napkins and wipe up stray coffee drips and other minor messes on my desk. The upside is that it doesn’t leave a greasy film the way lemon Pledge does, but it still smells nice.
[QUOTE=Coldfire]
And don’t even get me started on South American beers served with a lime slice, in climates where mosquitoes haven’t been spotted since before the last ice age (yes, that’s what it’s really for).
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Huh. I thought that quinine (tonic water) was for malaria, and the lime was to mask the bitterness.
I don’t mind the lemon slice in water. And, on a sweltering hot day, a slice on top of a wheat beer is damn refreshing. But please, for the love of God, don’t slice the lemon after you’ve just sliced an onion. :rolleyes: Ten years later and I can still remember that taste no matter how much I drink to forget.