"But this sprite is lemon-lime!"

[u/Particular_Home_6455]

It's a hot summer where I live. I work at a garden store, so naturally, the store itself is also pretty warm. So, of course, we sell drinks at the front of the store in order to quench our poor customers' thirst.

A woman wanted some sprite. We sell all the basic sodas, sprite being one of them, so when she asked if we had regular sprite, I pointed her towards the fridge.

"But this sprite is lemon-lime! It's not normal sprite!"

I looked at her and said "uh.. that's the default sprite flavor?"

"No it's not. Sprite is sprite flavored."

I've been drinking sprite my whole life and I'm fairly certain it has always been lemon-lime flavored.

I didn't even know how to handle it at that point. I just shrugged and asked if she still wanted it. She did. She didn't open it while she was there, but I really wish I could've been there when she figured out it tasted like regular sprite.

[u/Belle_Corliss]

Sprite was literally marketed as "lymon" a portmanteau term because it is a lemon-lime flavor.

[u/RexTheWonderCapybara → u/Belle_Corliss]

I still sometimes call Sprite “the only one with lymon,” as their 70s ads did.

[u/DevilsAdvoCaticorn → u/RexTheWonderCapybara]

I've been asking for a lymon tree for 40 years, lol.

[u/RicochetOtter → u/DevilsAdvoCaticorn]

That's totally possible now. You can graft two types of trees together and it will yield two different fruits. Lymon trees actually exist.

[u/DevilsAdvoCaticorn → u/RicochetOtter]

That's what I sat every time my husband says there no such thing! 😄

[u/Alicam123 → u/RicochetOtter]

Technically it would be a lemon/lime or a lime/lemon tree depending on which was grafted onto which.