On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 11:14:03 +0000 (UTC), Phil Pugliese wrote:

>  On Thursday, July 30, 2020, 02:44:40 AM MST, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@freelancetraveller.com> wrote:
>is that the original was simply mixing the rum ration with the lime juice that led to RN personnel beingcalled "limeys",
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>Never heard about mixing lime into grog altho I did hear about the 'limey' label but I thought it was solely due to using limes to ward off scurvy.
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Sorry; my fault for being unclear - it was indeed the limes that gave them
the nickname, not anything to do with grog. The mixing of lime juice into
the rum to make grog was simply a guess on my part, based on the fact that
all the [modern] recipes I found on-line for drinks called "Navy Grog" are
fundamentally mixes of rum with citrus juices.

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