Annoying new trend in bars...your thoughts?

Ok...this happened a couple of times in bars in Louisville and I wrote it off as inexperienced 21 year old bartenders who were hired not so much for skills as looks, then it happened once or twice while I was travelling with my band (the bars were semi-divey so maybe they get a pass) but the kicker was at a reasonably swanky and expensive bar in San Francisco.

I like Gin, I do not like to mix Gin. I like my Gin on the rocks with a twist. A twist is a twist of lemon rind, but constantly these days when I ask for a Gin on the rocks with a twist I'm given a squeeze of LIME!@?!??W?@#!
It's a minor pet peeve, I know, but seriously is this just ignorance? Is there some hip new terminology I'm not aware of? It just baffles me, and really takes away from the flavor of the drink...gah!

It is annoying. I recently ordered a Ketle One up with a twist. I was served a shot glass of warm vodka with a lemon wedge on the side. Oy vey.

A man once ordered an Amstel with a lime twist so I brought an Amstel with a lime rind twist. He yelled at me and said that he wanted a real lime twist so on this one occasion, I corrected him. I felt better--I don't know about him.

This is what you get for not being edge, dude.

I thought I was bad complaining about a bartender not been able to make a good Manhattan or Old Fashioned in many local bars. I mean they're basic drinks that any bartender should be able to make proficiency. I can't believe any place would let a person tend bar and couldn't understand what a "twist" meant or when to use it! Maybe there should be a competency test for bartenders (I'll volunteer to sample!).

This is what you get for not being edge, dude.

...i may have been the only other one who got this joke.

The trend to hire" looks" instead of "skills" unfortunately isn't limited to bars. I think when consumers complain about poor service it frequently comes from an employee that was hired to be attractive instead of competent. Don't get me wrong...I'm all for handsome or pretty, but train them for pity's sake! Don't assume we will all be so bowled over by attractiveness that we overlook the crappy service.

This is what you get for not being edge, dude.

...i may have been the only other one who got this joke.

Jeremy better get it before I break out more SHP and Rainbow Girls jokes.

I was at dinner once with a friend who ordered a scotch neat. It came out in a rocks glass full of ice. He sent it back and the same drink arrived, filtered from the ice, cold and diluted, in a martini glass! He was really embarrased and had to explain to the server to explain to the bartender what 'neat' meant. Pathetic! Could there be an easier bartending term? I think not.

Me thinks you would have specify a lemon twist as lime is the traditional twist served with gin.

Also Jessica is correct about the twist, it's the rind of lemon or lime, twisted
in a fancy curly Q ( there is corresponding technique to this ).

Ms. J's customer obviously thought he was ordering lime as shown and seen served with Corona and other Mexican beers to somehow rectify a bacteria
in the water, which is of course rediculas but delicioso!