I was at a friends home recently (JJG for those in the know) for an "ice-cream social" with lots of families. The kids took to the ice-cream and swarmed about the deck playing with numerous toys while the men congregated in the kitchen for beers and ladies sat around the patio in a semi-circle talking about, well, whatever it is they talk about when they're in a circle. They only know 'cause if you walk up on them, they stop talking.
In any event, as we were offered various choices of libation, including a range of beers, Corona was offered to one of the fathers. Their response was "Do you have lime"? It seemed an innocent question, JJG checked, and said no. "I'll just have water then" was the man's response.
I'm writing this because I'm drinking a Corona right now. With lime. And it's excellent. But had I no lime, it'd still be excellent. It's not as if "lime" is in itself an ingredient, it's an addition. Yet for this guy, for whatever reason, the absence of the lime was a deal breaker. No lime, no Corona. Water was more preferable at that stage.
JJG and I exchanged a puzzled looks with furrowed brows, and he got his water. And I got the Corona he would have otherwise taken. The last one, it turns out. Sans lime.
It was excellent. In fact I'll go out on a limb and say it tasted better than water.
