This is also why the advice to stockpile tonic water and drink it is pointless either way, since nowadays we only drink gin and tonics for the distinctive taste the tonic water barely has any quinine in it https://twitter.com/adrienneleigh/status/1242231707459301376 …
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By FDA regulations the tonic water sold as a mixer has to have <100 mg per liter, and to actually prevent malaria you need to take like 2000 mg/day (so ten 2-liter bottles of the stuff)
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REAL tonic water from back in the day has 10x the concentration and is nasty as fuck to drink The gin was to make the tonic go down easier, not vice versa
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Replying to @arthur_affect
... I am trying to imagine something that tastes worse than gin
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And gin from back in the day tasted a lot worse ("harsher") than today too Hence the whole thing where martinis were invented to soften the taste of gin with vermouth and over time it became a performative thing to make them drier as gin quality improved
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The thing on The West Wing where Bartlet makes fun of James Bond over "shaken, not stirred" because it makes the martini cold and watery is missing the fact that in the 40s you had to do that for strong mixed drinks made with cheap spirits
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(It's part of his characterization in the books that Bond is an alcoholic but he's got finicky taste buds and so he orders really big drinks with carefully chosen mixers that are ice cold to go down easier, i.e. the sorority girl stereotype)
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