Limes are lime green, lemons are lemon yellow.
Lemons have seeds, limes don't (with exceptions like the Key lime variety).
Lemons and limes can be mixed, combined together to juice up a gin and tonic, for example.
The lime (lima in Spanish, like the capital of Peru) originates from Persia (Iran) and Iraq, but is now grown in various places around the world, including Mexico and the USA.
The lemon (limone in Spanish) originates from China, India and in between, and is also now grown in various other places, including North America.
Lemons tend to be larger than limes -- though such is not the case in the ones I recently purchased (pictured above), thanks in part to drought.
If something is a dud, it's sometimes called a lemon, but not a lime. Why? I don't know and am too lazy to look it up at this juncture. Do you know?
Personally, I like lemons and limes, with a tilt to the lime for its zestier pop to the taste buds.
Sometimes on a hot night, I love to squeeze lime juice into a tall mug or glass filled with Cerveza Modelo Especial, the rather sharp, thirst-quenching Mexican lager. (A bottle's worth delivers about 145 calories, by the way).
If the limes run out, lemon juice alone or even a little lemonade can be mixed with just about any lager to make a shandy or panache, though for me, a little added lemon juice goes a long way. Limes are better.
Today's Rune: Wholeness.
1 comment:
That's so funny, I was just drinking a Modelo earlier today. :p Perhaps I'll put some lime in it next time. ^_^
Personally I like lemons, especially cut in half with a peppermint stick in them.
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