"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> 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 :-)
> --

They are in my house.

Paul