House Lime - Ole talk, rum, food and card games

A lime, a party, a get together, a small brang or a big one.  Ah yes. Friday reach, man tired but ready to lime. By now you know, trinis love to lime. We love we belly too, so naturally we would only show up if there's either alcohol or food. Worse yet if it's a family lime, there's no restrictions on behaviour and portions!

Last Saturday my friends and I met up just because we hadn't seen each other in a while. We all pitched in for drinks and food and set up a little area on the patio (yes, outside they say when the cold breeze hitting yuh, yuh does get sober).

The menu for the night was curried chicken and dhalpuri (roti stuffed with ground seasoned split peas) and of course we had some snacks in between (I'll do another post on trini snacks, look out for this!). A designated bartender was chosen along with a DJ and the party start.


As the evening passed, everyone starting giving accounts of their day or week chatting away like close friends do (ole talking) until everyone started getting a little buzzed. From here we split into teams for an All Fours match; a card game also known as High-Low-Jack or Seven Up. (My mother never allowed gambling games in the house when I was younger, to this date I'm still not sure how I learned the rules!).

The first team to get to 14 points wins and while it may seem the tension is high during the game, the anger quickly dissipates since you're among friends. Other card games people play include: Rummy (romie? I'm not sure how this is spelt?), 3 hand knock, Blackjack among others.

What's you typical lime night like?

Comments

  1. Dennis24 July 2017 at 13:17

    Nah, alyuh can't drink so much rum in one night.

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    1. Unknown24 July 2017 at 13:18

      Come and lime with us a night. See for yourself! ;)

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  2. Vicky24 July 2017 at 13:36

    Sounds like fun!! Around what time do these "limes" start and end??

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    1. Unknown24 July 2017 at 15:36

      The great thing is that a lime can be at any time, any day. This particular one got started around 9pm and we went on til almost daylight!

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