Talk:Gin and tonic
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[edit] Curb Your Enthusiam
I don't have all the details, nor am I very experienced at writing wiki entries, but I would like to see added to this article that there is an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm which mentions Gin & Tonic. Larry finds out that he was adopted and is actually a WASP, therefore he must start drinking Gin & Tonic's to fit in. Funny stuff. It was the final episode of Season 4 I believe, the one where Dustin Hoffman and Sascha Baron Cohen have cameos.
- I think in general Wikipedia is moving away from simply mentioning that a particular thing appeared in a television programme, film etc, towards a model whereby only significant appearances of that thing are covered, and only then in prose rather than list form. Ideally these appearances should be significant outside the context of the television show, film, etc. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 18:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lime/Lemon garnish
I've added Lemon again in the intro as this is what i usually get when ordering a G&T instead of Lime. Allthough a quick round on google reveals recipes mostly only list a wedge of lime as garnish, in reality (read in bars, both in western europe and asia) usually a wedge of lemon is served. My guess is that that has someything to do with the lesser avilability/more expensive lime. . . . s k i n 21:57, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
I read an article (not very reputable, a carriers in-flight magazine) about the original 'Gin and Tonic' being served with lemon and not lime! Are there any researchers with really old (and reliable) cocktail books out there who could clarify the situation? (The fact that the British are called 'Limies' by us 'Krauts' seems to point in the other direction, though...)
[edit] H2G2
There is an interesting quote in the Hitchhiker's Guide re the Gin and Tonic but since it's copyright I don't know how to refer to it here
You can quote short excerpts from copyright material as long as you properly attribute it:
In Life, the Universe and Everything, by Douglas Adams, Ford Prefect describes a psychotic episode to Arthur Dent thus:
- "... then I decided that I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."
- Arthur cleared his throat, and then did it again. "Where," he said, "did you...?"
- "Find a gin and tonic?" said Ford brightly. "I found a small lake that thought it was a gin and tonic, and jumped in and out of that. At least, I think it thought it was a gin and tonic.
- "I may," he addded with a grin which would have sent sane men scampering into the trees, "have been imagining it."
um...I think he was thinking of another quote...the one in the spaceship full of phone sanitizers, where the captain in the bathtub asks them if they want a jynnan tonnyx, and Adams explains how every culture has a drink called gin and tonic...:)
Perhaps you mean this one (from Restaurant at the End of the Universe) :
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water server at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
This HHGG quote has no place here. It is completely irrelevant. Contrary to geek culture, most people have not read the book, and don't care what one particular writer has to say about it. The quotation is not even about gin and tonic! What does it tell us about gin & tonic -- nothing! -- other than the fact that Adams is clever as producing alternative spellings of the word. Plus it hardly helps wikipedia's image --- Tarquin 22:37, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Very entertaining quote, though… ;o) — OwenBlacker 22:50, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
- Damn right, will you sci-fi nerds PLEASE stop sticking references to your favourites books/TV shows/films in every single fucking thread where it's not even remotely relevant? Sometimes I feel like going into all the Star Trek and Firefly articles sticking in references to things that have barely the most remote connection with them, just for revenge.
- The statement comes after a statement about it's "culteral and literary" acceptance. In that context, it's a valid point of entry. If you wish to cut it down (say: "One such example is in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series" and leave it at that), or to find another example to add, that would also be relevant. -FrYGuY 08:58, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tonic water and quinine
I'm sure there isn't enough quinine in tonic water for it to be an effective anti-malarial. Anyone? — OwenBlacker 22:50, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
lifted from the quinine entry: According to tradition, the bitter taste of antimalarial quinine tonic led British colonials in India to mix it with gin, thus creating the Gin and Tonic cocktail.
Worth including in that tradition would be to mention the lime, or rather, citris / ascorbic acid, used to prevent scurvy on long ocean voyages. the cocktail truly is a gin and TONIC (prevention of malaria and scurvy).
Personally I like to add the juice from half a lemon or lime (whichever I am using).
[edit] External link removed
I've removed a link to the "gin and tonic society" page. The site requires registration and "acceptance" before anyone can see whatever information is in there. I'm sure that whatever factual information is available there can be found elsewhere on the web without having to go through the rigamarole of registering. Joyous! | Talk 20:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Cocktail"
A G&T isn't a cocktail; it's a mixed drink. You might as well call shandy a cocktail. 195.92.40.49 10:59, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
- Cocktail can just mean "mixed drink" (or indeed, anything mixed- fruit cocktail, cocktail of drugs, what have you). A G&T is technically a Highball cocktail, along with any "spirit + mixer" drink. 82.69.37.32 (talk) 20:11, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
