Lime Shortage - Tiki Drinks and Food

S swizzle Tiki Socialite Melbourne,Australia Joined: Jun 03, 2007 Posts: 1460	S swizzle Posted posted on Fri, May 20, 2016 12:56 AM On 2016-05-16 04:53, mikehooker wrote: Curious what the typical wage difference is between US and Austrailia. Many States in America still have a minimum wage sitting around $7-8 an hour whereas I'm betting Oz is quite significantly higher than that. I'd imagine that translates to much higher pay in skilled professions as well. Just wondering how impactful that is when it comes to your seemingly high cost of limes and booze. Perhaps it's an unfair comparison if your earned dollars are twice that of ours. Where does your citrus come from? Do you have native breeds or do they come from CA or Mexico? Whilst that might be true in some states if you do a comparison of Melbourne with L.A. and S.F here you'll see that the figures are quite similar for certain things and in others there can be quite a difference, both in your favour and sometimes mine, depending on what it is. The limes come from Queensland and that $1 cost is about 72 cents U.S. with the currency conversion at the time of writing. So that is close to the 69 cents that both HopeChest and Swanky have seen them for BUT that is on the expensve side for you guys and cheap for us because they are in season. When they are not in season and are $3.00 each (and can be even more) that is about $2.72U.S, so even when they are at their cheapest here that is more than what you pay when they are at their most expensive for you guys. That is a massive difference when incomes are similar. And if you want to understand the reason why booze costs us so much then you might want to read this. You may be able to understand that better than i do. On 2016-05-19 23:19, nui 'umi 'umi wrote: This next tip might be common knowledge. With the half lime cut side down I make a half inch cut in the unsqueezed lime. Not common knowledge to me David. I actually saw a bartender do that not to long ago, make a slice in the lime lengthwise before slicing it in half. I asked him why he did that and he said the lime shell splits easier in the squeezer and you get more juice out of it. Guess that makes sense but i always forget to do it anyway. And i've also never tried squeezing the two shells together a second time. Going to make a few drinks tonight so i'll give it a go.

On 2016-05-16 04:53, mikehooker wrote:
Curious what the typical wage difference is between US and Austrailia. Many States in America still have a minimum wage sitting around $7-8 an hour whereas I'm betting Oz is quite significantly higher than that. I'd imagine that translates to much higher pay in skilled professions as well. Just wondering how impactful that is when it comes to your seemingly high cost of limes and booze. Perhaps it's an unfair comparison if your earned dollars are twice that of ours.

Where does your citrus come from? Do you have native breeds or do they come from CA or Mexico?

Whilst that might be true in some states if you do a comparison of Melbourne with L.A. and S.F here you'll see that the figures are quite similar for certain things and in others there can be quite a difference, both in your favour and sometimes mine, depending on what it is.

The limes come from Queensland and that $1 cost is about 72 cents U.S. with the currency conversion at the time of writing. So that is close to the 69 cents that both HopeChest and Swanky have seen them for BUT that is on the expensve side for you guys and cheap for us because they are in season. When they are not in season and are $3.00 each (and can be even more) that is about $2.72U.S, so even when they are at their cheapest here that is more than what you pay when they are at their most expensive for you guys. That is a massive difference when incomes are similar.

And if you want to understand the reason why booze costs us so much then you might want to read this. You may be able to understand that better than i do.

On 2016-05-19 23:19, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

This next tip might be common knowledge. With the half lime cut side down I make a half inch cut in the unsqueezed lime.

Not common knowledge to me David. I actually saw a bartender do that not to long ago, make a slice in the lime lengthwise before slicing it in half. I asked him why he did that and he said the lime shell splits easier in the squeezer and you get more juice out of it. Guess that makes sense but i always forget to do it anyway.

And i've also never tried squeezing the two shells together a second time. Going to make a few drinks tonight so i'll give it a go.

Post #764032 by swizzle on Fri, May 20, 2016 12:56 AM