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[ewx]

We do see gin as something that your parents drink, a bit 70s. The British drinking public is fairly backward.

...I much prefer the late Sir Denis Thatcher's views on the subject quoted in the same article.

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[k425.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.
I was never a big gin drinker until I started attending the end-of-course dinners that run for our external course. Pre-dinner drinks are the norm and since nearly everyone around me was having a G&T the first time I went, I decided to have one too. I think I like the sharpness - I like tonic on its own, too. With a slice of lemon or lime and a couple of chunks of ice G&T is a lovely summer evening tipple.

[simont]

I note that Denis Thatcher's view is not actually incompatible with the one you've quoted. He says it's never too early for a gin and tonic, whereas the view you quote says that it's sometimes too late :-)

(No problems with gin here, but I can't stand tonic...)

[wendym.livejournal.com]

Dammit. I really, really want a G&T right now.

[nja.livejournal.com]

I can't have a bottle of gin in the house. I like it far too much. A bottle of whisk(e)y lasts me a few months, if I buy a bottle of gin I find it's half-empty after a few days.

[angua.livejournal.com]

it's the gin fairies.. they do it to me as well.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I don't care if my parents gurgle it by the bottle - as far as I can see the fact that it tastes unutterably vile suffices.