On 20/07/2013 12:50 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> Not initially, though.  They used "rob", which was a mix of sauerkraut
> and a concentrated fruit juice mixture, which was boiled.  Well, I guess
> the fruit juice concentrate could have been (or had as a component)
> lemon, so fair play on that.:)
>
>> >There was some skulduggery going on at the time between us and the rest
>> >of the world. And no one would sell the Brits lemons. So we used limes
>> >from one of the islands in the Caribbean. Hence Limeys.
> First recorded use of "Lime juicer" (which became "limey") to refer to a
> Brit was 1859.

I did not know any of that. I only found out about the embargo, recently.
I tried looking it up and guess it was another Stephen Fry lie, said in 
a convincing manor.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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