abd/or

Or.

If you say "No food and drinks. . . ." sure as the sun comes up in the east, some wise guy is going to assume that neither food nor drinks are allowed, but food and drink together might be okay.

You could also get fancy and say, "No food and/or drinks are allowed". Personally, that construction has always sounded a bit pompous to me.

Still waiting on an easy question about rats, by the way.

Thanks, Roger.

Pompous perhaps but least susceptible to avoidance through weasel wording.

Yoong Liat, you already asked this a few months ago about "eating and drinking" versus "eating or drinking". You got pretty similar answers I think.