I like gin martinis drunk with caution...I had a too much gin experience where for a week afterwards everything I drank tasted like gin and grapefruit juice, so I have to take it easy...I do like the old gin and juice combo though... N.
I'm going for drinks with the RTs at 5.30 (I doubt 'll get a Gibson in the Parade Bar, but I might manage a Gimlet), so could you make your own way up (I'll probably be out of the bar but not in a state to drive)?
Righty-ho. I rather feel like one myself, but that will have to wait until I get home, since I'm never going to be able to get a cocktail from the refreshments trolley on board the Portsmouth-Cardiff train.
but, butbutbutbut Gibsons are sooo nice, they're like a savoury booze, and it's great, and I can never decide between a normal Martini or a Gibson, sometimes I greedy and demand both an olive and an onion (I'm sure there's a name for that apart from Nicola is a greedyguts)
but that would get complicated as first you have flat or fizzy, if you go down the fizzy drink route you have the pepsi/coke dichotomy before you even get into all the different varieties of coke
btw, the recipe for French 75 seems to be very variable. Some places says that it is champagne, cognac and lemon juice, and that if you substitute gin for cognac, it becomes a champagne collins. Others suggest adding cointreau in addition to the gin.
I'm inclined to trust them as well, since a) they give the provenance for the recipe (Harry's Bar, post WWI) and b) it's not sickly sweet, which is in keeping with the contemporary tastes for the inter-war period.
Must try the Chapel when I'm next in London. Haven't been round Islington way for years.
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:30 am (UTC)N.
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 06:46 am (UTC)I'm going for drinks with the RTs at 5.30 (I doubt 'll get a Gibson in the Parade Bar, but I might manage a Gimlet), so could you make your own way up (I'll probably be out of the bar but not in a state to drive)?
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:49 am (UTC)Righty-ho. I rather feel like one myself, but that will have to wait until I get home, since I'm never going to be able to get a cocktail from the refreshments trolley on board the Portsmouth-Cardiff train.
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:48 am (UTC)Yrs,
A.N Uneducation (PeoN)
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:50 am (UTC)Take one martini. Remove the olive. Insert a silverskin cocktail onion.
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 06:53 am (UTC)butbutbut! *gin-soaked* pickled onions == NUM! (as you
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:57 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-08-20 07:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 07:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-26 05:58 am (UTC)You don't see people putting vegetables into whisky, because it tastes fine by itself.
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Date: 2004-08-26 06:13 am (UTC)Pah, heathen! People don't put vegetables in whisky because the whisky makes them taste bad! (fruit, on the other hand...)
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Date: 2004-08-26 06:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-26 06:22 am (UTC)I detect a soft drinks poll here...
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Date: 2004-08-26 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 06:58 am (UTC)btw, the recipe for French 75 seems to be very variable. Some places says that it is champagne, cognac and lemon juice, and that if you substitute gin for cognac, it becomes a champagne collins. Others suggest adding cointreau in addition to the gin.
Still sounds good, any which way.
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Date: 2004-08-20 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 07:35 am (UTC)I'm inclined to trust them as well, since a) they give the provenance for the recipe (Harry's Bar, post WWI) and b) it's not sickly sweet, which is in keeping with the contemporary tastes for the inter-war period.
Must try the Chapel when I'm next in London. Haven't been round Islington way for years.
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Date: 2004-08-20 06:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-20 07:01 am (UTC)Ah, but "favourite" and radio boxes requires you to choose just one (as opposed to clicking every ticky-box that's offered). Intentional, it was.
btw, you likely to be at the BSFA meeting next weds?
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Date: 2004-08-20 07:49 am (UTC)