How do you choose between these?
I'm 36 and still don't know the difference.
Why not eat them both?
>>22154181You don't. You buy both. I always have both on hand for cooking and mainly beverages.
grow up dipshit
Always go with the lime. Lemons make foods taste rotten. Limes enhance the flavor. A simple test is to make guacamole. put lime in one lemon in the other. With the fat of the avocado you can taste the subtractive quality of lemon. Save it for lemonade.
Apparently these has been popular in Asia, they are called perfume lemons, and they have a very nice fragrance, tried one of those drinks with them when I visited Singapore
>>22154221>Lemons make foods taste rottenyou're using old lemons
>>22154181Eh. I struggle to detect the difference in terms of taste but I go with lemon just simply because it seems to be the "default" per se. I hear about people making LEMONade but I rarely if ever hear about people making LIMEade. And then for candies yellow is almost always lemon so it's easy to keep track of but green could be not only lime but also flavors like green apple or watermelon so it's not super consistent. And overall despite preferring the color green over the color yellow I somehow just think lemons look prettier than limes. That specific shape just goes better with yellow than with green. Lemon meringue pie and key lime pie are equally great though and I could literally eat both for a million years and never get bored.
>>22154181back when i was a young dickhead if i ordered a shot of tequila at the bar and they gave me a lemon wedge i would have them take it back and give me a lime wedge insteadnow i prefer tequila straight the rare time i get a tequila shot
>>22154181Lime has a more distinct taste. They are more bitter and sharper. If you just want the pure citric acid taste combined with something sweet, got for the lemon. Dishes and drinks containing limes usually focus specifically on the unique lime taste.
>>22154181Limes for cutting through strong flavours, especially stuff that's heavily spiced or seasoned. Lemons for lifting up delicate flavours or fatty foods.
>>22154184One is yellow and one is green.
>>22154363Yea but how do you tell
>>22154471You must sniff them
>>22154361this
>>22156521I feel like you said "this" just to bump the thread to save it from dying since it was like one of the last 5 posts on page 10 lol.
>>22154181limes have some sweetness to them, while lemons are just sour.
>>22154181limes have a more flowery and fragrant taste while lemons are closer to somethinig like an orange but not quite where the flavor is equal parts the flesh and juice of the fruit itself.
Lime goes in Corona, lemon goes in water.
>>22154221>Lemons make foods taste rottenCan't tell if troll, retarded, or cooklet. Most likely all of the above
>>22156577This
>>22154181Are you White? The answer should be obvious
>>22158865oranges then?
>>22154184dumb motherfucker
for me it's the meyer lemon.
>>22154331really? i always felt like lime was sweeter and fruitier and lemon to be sharper and tarter.
>>22154181Lemon for food.Lime for drinks and sweets.
How the fuck do people not know the difference between lemons and limes in terms of taste and fragrance? Is it chainsmoking that's to blame?
pick lemons when they are green pretend they are limes ???profit
>>22160408it's the other way round>>22161410people don't have access to proper produce any more
>>22161449Incredibly low effort bait post. You know what you did.The main girl from that anime is hot but the moment I learned she picks a cigarette out of literal shit to smoke it, I knew that I would never watch that garbage and it makes her a lot worse too.
>>22161449>best to buy those little bottles You should have said that first. Sorry I didn't know you didn't have taste buds. I hope you get better soon.
>>22161492So... she did pick the cigarette out of literal shit to smoke it like I said. She just also cut off part of it too. I imagine you would do the same then? Smoke a cigarette that's going to smell like actual shit because even the part that wasn't in direct contact with shit was still close enough to it to pick up the smell?Right, smokers can't smell or taste anything...
>>22161449>>22161492Cigarettes and cig smokers smell like absolute SHITYou fucking stink. You fucking reek like shit, like burnt chemical shit. Everything you own smells like shit.
>>22161528I drank brown looking water a number of times. Right now I'm living in the countryside and regularly drink boiled well water. I also really really hate smokers because I had to deal with their smoke for YEARS until smoking in public places was outlawed.I wish smoking killed them faster than it does.
>>22161548You're free not to walk around them or to not dine in establishments where there are smokers. You don't need to pass laws to artificially change what the market will do on its own.
>>22161548Dunno what ultra dense shithole or downtown area where you can't smoke outside is, but I wouldn't want to live there. Nothing wrong with smoking outside and being discrete. I wouldn't at a train/metro station where we are all covered or really close quarters though. Those places should have a smoking area and most do. So you really have a non issue.
>>22161556That's the thing, back then you had to constantly move places because they would smoke EVERYWHERE.>>22161560I'm talking like 15 years ago
>>22154181I get whichever one I feel like getting at the moment. Usually it's limes for my soda. IMHO lemon goes better on fish, unless it's ceviche in which case lime.
>>22154363Not always. I used to reside in Taiwan (can't call it living) and the lemons they grow there are green. Limes are smaller and have smoother skins -- but there's a tangerine that is also lime-shaped and lime-sized with smooth skins.There was one fruit market that consistently had limes and I'd go there often, but the stupid bitch running it was a cheap cunt who thought that if she just kept the spoiled produce out, people would eventually buy it anyway, so she left rotting, moldy, spore-covered limes sitting in the bin, contaminating all the fresh stuff. Eventually she got tired of the game and just stopped carrying limes at all. I swear, Taiwanese peasants are dumber than dogshit. And yes there are plenty of old peasants who grew up in farm families and never bothered to join the modern age of getting an education and not mixing moldy rotten limes with fresh ones.
>>22154181lime just simply because i hate the color yellow because it reminds me of piss
Lemon sucks
>>22161410spanish swaps the names around depending on regional dialect so foreigners grow up calling limes lemons and lemons limes then get confused in english.some people also think that limes are unripe lemons.
I am from the Caribbean, we use lime more, they are more suited for our climate
>>22154181The difference is pretty obvious desu, limes have a slightly spicy element to them. Kind of like cinnamon. Lemons lack this flavor and are more just sour
>>22164653That's understandable but at that point it's having swapped terms for what are still two distinct items. I was more referring to people who can't differentiate between the two.
>>22164674>limes have a slightly spicy element to themi think you're just allergic.
>>22154181white people food => lemonbrown people food => lime
>>22164680I guess it might be more brown sugar than cinnamon. Something baking related
>>22164653I solved this by not being Spanish and never engaging with Spanish speakers.
Lemons are the all-purpose citrus while limes are sharper in acidity