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"Recently it has seen an upsurge in its popularity as a fashionable drink, so much so that it even has its own day of the week Gin & Tonic Friday, celebrated weekly on Facebook with fans uploading their pictures of Gin & Tonics."
Whilst it is good to see an increase in popularity of the drink, I'm not sure that a Facebook Group is sufficiently noteworthy. But I'd like to hear other views. --Ethanbentley (talk) 07:01, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
This should be included as it is a significant development in the evolution of the gin and tonic which is having an impact on the future of the industry. Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray as well as a number of smaller brands have brought out specifically designed branded glasses for this purpose. It differs because the glassware is very different and isn't used for many other applications, there is a much greater focus on the garnish and the ice:gin:tonic ratio is different.
It is not just a translation it is a reference to a different style. It could also be known as a Gin & Tonic in the Spanish Style but gin tonic is the technical term. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethanbentley (talk • contribs) 18:26, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
This whole section is misleading - suggesting that Gin Tónic is a different drink worthy of it's own subsection: "In Spain, a drink called Gin Tónic has become popular. This differs from a traditional gin and tonic as it is served in balloon glass or coupe glass with plenty of ice and a garnish tailored to the flavours of the gin." If anything this should just be a note on the popularity of gin and tonic in Spain and the way in which it is served there. It shouldn't imply a separate drink. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.78.243.131 (talk) 13:37, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
I feel inclined to agree with the original author, although I would say Gin Tonica is a clearer term than just "gin tonic" it's not a completely separate drink (otherwise it would have it's own page)but is a distinct sub-category. It has at least two (maybe 3) factor differentiating it from a standard American gin and tonic and having tried both with the same gin there is a whole world of difference. Keep it maybe just change the term to Gin Tonica. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.103.9.42 (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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'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...)
... I have never been given a gin and tonic with a lemon. Wild. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.169.241 (talk) 05:37, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
... UK here and I've never seen a gin and tonic garnished with lime- it has always been a slice of lemon, and I've been drinking them for nearly 25 years. As for the limey comment above, my understanding is that lime juice was used by the Navy as a dietary supplement to help prevent scurvy, and that was where the nickname came from. IrishPete 15:59, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
The London edition of Esquire's "Handbook for Hosts" (October 2004) calls for 1/2 a lime as garnish.--Ethanbentley (talk) 07:03, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
With reference to the anonymous change to the infobox today (which I have reverted) it is demonstrable from the sources that lime is the historical garnish, and still the virtually universal garnish outside the UK. It is equally demonstrable that lime is the garnish recommended by all the major distillers. I have searched for a gin distiller who recommends lemon as a garnish, but have found none. For an exception to be marked in the info box it really does need more weight behind it than the unusual practice of a single nation; particularly as, even in the UK, it is very much a "pub" practice - in any of the best hotels of London or the gentlemen's Clubs, you will be given lime, not lemon. The partial UK practice is fully and unambiguously reported in the appropriate section of the article. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 15:08, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I agree with the above user [Timothy Titus] views on the prevalence of lime as a a garnish and whilst the info box should not been changed. However I have added to the section on garnishes a link and a little accompanying text about the debate. I have referenced a New York Time article that address the debate and has the Master Distiller of Beefeater, a major distillery, the founder of Fevertree (a popular high-end tonic), an American bartender/bar owner and another gin veteran, Simon Ford all favouring the use of lemon. I think the fact that this article (from a non-UK source) demonstrates the debate of lemon vs. lime should be reflected in the wiki article as such I have edited to the language used to make it more objective. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ethanbentley (talk • contribs) 20:39, 29 June 2013 (UTC) --Ethanbentley (talk) 20:41, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Gin and Tonic is a British drink and in Britain they serve lemon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.213.23 (talk) 16:57, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
I don't think it's at all established that lemon is a UK peculiarity. In Australia, I've never seen lime in a G&T — it's always lemon. And when I have ordered G&T in Spain, it came garnished with lemon. Perhaps lime is a US thing, and lemon is more universal elsewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.99.126 (talk) 10:27, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
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:
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)
I agree fully with wintakeall that the hhtg reference should be in there because 20 years down the road the cultural references will be importaqnt--Kr4ft (talk) 22:22, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
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).
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)
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)
The recent addition to the article: "The bitter tonic, bitter gin and sour lime mix to make a phantom sweetness which does not depend on sugar" seems suspect to me. Any commercial tonic water I've ever seen contains one or more of high fructose corn syrup, sugar, or sodium saccharin. I suspect these known sweeteners are more responsible for the apparent sweetness of gin & tonic than any editor-hypothesized interaction between bitter and sour. --AdamRoach (talk) 20:04, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
The drink isn't referred to as a "TNT" suggesting dynamite or strength, but rather as a T and T (T&T), for Tanqueray and Tonic.Yagyu retsudo (talk) 03:44, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
The idea that traditionally a British gin and tonic is served without ice is interesting but despite looking I can find very little evidence, and nothing concrete, about this practice. From my research it has been served with ice in the UK since at least the 1930s (as shown in British adverts). The only reference I can find is that is it quoted in the 1982 "The Year of Living Dangerously" and it is certainly not common, nor suggested, practice in the UK today. Until some concrete evidence is found I don't think it should be included. Thanks to Timothy Titus for their work on this. --Ethanbentley (talk) 19:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
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Gin and tonic made with Bombay Sapphire London Dry Gin and Schweppes Indian Tonic, garnished with slices of lime.
The photo is generic; I don't see any reason why specific brands should be mentioned here. — MaxEnt 01:55, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
I just decided to cut to the chase and remove some references (some of which were dead links anyway) and say that the ratio depends on whether lime juice is being added, but 1:2 isn't all that unreasonable. Зенитная Самоходная Установка (talk) 14:13, 21 July 2019 (UTC)