Behind The Scenes .... Funny Limoncello Story

29 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this first‑person anecdote, the speaker recounts a chaotic holiday mishap while preparing limoncello. To wash the 50‑150 lemons needed for a batch, the speaker’s brother cleaned a large six‑foot bathtub and decided to use it as a lemon‑washing basin. While the water was running, the brother left to shop for wine online, causing the tub to overflow. Water burst through the living‑room ceiling during a Christmas evening where the speaker was sipping champagne with their sister‑in‑law. The flood forced ceiling repairs and created a humorous, exasperated family moment, with the brother blaming the overflow on the speaker’s lack of knowledge about fill time.

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A funny story about making limoncello, which requires anywhere from 50 to 150 lemons depending on how big the batch is, and those lemons have to be washed somewhere. Well, as you can see, I have a tiny sink in my kitchen, but I happen to have a huge 6-foot bathtub that my brother bleached and scrubbed and cleaned to within an inch of its life and then decided to wash all the lemons in the bathtub. Brilliant idea, except that as he ran the water, he decided he would multitask and came downstairs and the bathtub overflowed. I was sitting in front of the fire, glass of champagne in hand, sitting with my sister-in-law, Michael's wife, enjoying a lovely evening, and then water started pouring through the ceiling of my living room. Fuck! My brother hysterical. It's not my fault, it's not my fault, I didn't know how long it would take to fill the tub. Had to have ceiling cut out. Oh, by the way, and this was at Christmas, so we found out that my brother decided to fill the tub and then got sidetracked by looking at wine to purchase online until he heard my— his wife, my sister-in-law, and I screaming. That is the funny limoncello story.