Aussie wrote on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:09:00 GMT:

>> "Aussie" > wrote in
>> message 5...
>>> http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/a...The%20perfect%
> 20Gin%
>>> 20and%20Tonic/
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/24fyeqv
>>>
>>> A pint glass, some chunks of ice, a fresh lemon, good Gin,
>>> good tonic water.... and most importantly of all, a fluro
>>> swizzle stick.
>>>
>>> I can get through 3 of those in a sitting, and that's it. At
>>> least I'm getting 3 pints of fluids in, the miniscule
>>> amounts of Quinine per
> serve
>>> will
>>> hopefully build up over time and stop me from getting
>>> Malaria.....
> again.
>>
>> Lemon? Dear god man what has this world come to? Lime is
>> the only
> citrus
>> fruit that should ever touch a proper gin and tonic.
>>
> The last sentence in the exerpt below clarifies *that*
> particular fact....

> http://www.chow.com/recipes/10298-classic-gin-and-tonic

> "Gin and the quinine-derived tonic may be at the heart of a
> Gin and Tonic, but there is much more in its soul. In his book
> On Drink, Kingsley Amis quips, "It would be rather shabby to
> take money for explaining that, for instance, a gin and tonic
> consists of gin and tonic, plus ice and a slice of lemon."
> Money matters aside, the lack of preparation details in most
> cocktail books takes the Gin and Tonic - or other tonic drinks
> - for granted. But who among us has not had an appalling G&T?
> A good Gin and Tonic, Gin Tonic, or Gin Tonny must be cold and
> not overwhelmed by tonic, as is the case in most printed
> recipes.

> Historically, quinine has been taken as an antidote to fevers
> for hundreds of years. In seventeenth-century India, the
> British mixed it with gin and lemon juice to reduce the
> quinine’s bitterness. Schweppes, a company that perfected
> carbonated mineral water in the 1780s, introduced their tonic
> water in the 1870s. It soon became popular with British troops
> as a premixed, curiously refreshing alternative. The fact that
> Amis and much of the world prefer lemon to lime is another
> issue entirely."

I suppose a lot of people do like gin and lime and thus get confused.
However, if you prefer lime to lemon, why not? Cocktails are not a
religious ceremony :-)
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not