FineWine:

 

neb: Another thing that's useful to know about SA is that they really like a type of cool mint lime drink, so lime-flavoured with mint leaves in it. Kaffir limes are particularly popular for this, so if you want to have this just wander into a cafe and ask if they serve kaffirs.

 

Just be careful you don't get your Kaffir's mixed up. One is a lime citrus fruit and the other is a derogatory term for a Black African. This derogatory term properly derived from the Kaffir Bean which is black in colour and used as food for livestock and for soil enrichment. It was then expanded upon to mean all sorts of things concerning Black African's but always in a derogatory way and is considered profoundly offensive and inflammatory. It now ranks as perhaps the most offensive term in South African English.

 

I've been making a kaffir lime version of limoncello for years now, except instead of using the pith off the fruit, you infuse the leaves from the tree in 90%+ spirits, and add sugar syrup.

I'm aware of the offensive nature of the phrase, and so tend to call what I've made makrut lime liqueur, as makrut is another name for the same plant, and doesn't have the offensiveness issue.