Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
British elderly gentleman sitting across asked for Scotch neat to the FA, first FA asked back what is "neat" and the gentleman had to explain it is straight, nothing else, no ice, etc.
That precise conversation happened to my dinner companion at the Savoy Grill, a Gordon Ramsay restaurant (!!), in February of this year. She ordered a scotch neat; the waiter came back about 10 minutes later to ask what "neat" meant. One might have thought that between being at the Savoy in London, and being in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant, SOMEONE would have known what neat meant. But it was not to be.