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Subject: Re: Where are measured pours legally required?
From: apetail
Posted: Tue Sep 18. 2007, 23:29 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Where are measured pours legally required?"  by Adam Elmegirab  (Tue Sep 18. 2007, 14:58 UTC)
> > Well, I'm glad to oblige!
> >
> > The Weights and Measures (Intoxicating Liquor) Order 1988 
> > 3.
> >   (2)  Any such liquor shall be exempted from the requirements of 
> > this article when it forms a constituent of a mixture of three or 
> > more liquids.
> > -----------------------
> > 
> > So, Myth Busted! A lime wedge cannot be called a liquid, and is not 
> > 
> > enough to trigger the cocktail exception.
> 
> A lime wedge cannot be called a liquid, you're right, but a squeezing 
> a lime produces liquid. ;)
> 
> I've pointed this out to many people at weights and measures, and 
> asked the question many times, and they've all agreed that the law is 
> flawed.  I've yet to receive a solid answer from anyone that works 
> for the government.

It may depend on the circumstances. The law is not only determined by some 
piece of text but also by unwritten rules. This law is to protect the consumer 
(if the guest wants and specifically orders some kind of measure he can get 
any size of volume he wants next to the obligatory 25ml and 35ml multiples). 
If a guest orders a rum and coke or a gin and tonic than a lime squeeze can 
not be regarded as being an ingredient. Although it technically is an 
ingredient (btw only just by the same arguments as ice can be seen as an 
ingredient) a rum and coke or G&T is not necessarily made with a citrus 
squeeze. From the consumer point of view it is not an ingredient (They order 
two things and not three.). This is what I think any court would (and should) 
decide if such issue would come up.


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