Gin and Tonic (1930)

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:24 PM -0500 2/6/03, James A. Landau wrote:
>  >  Or else we'd be drinking gin and gin.  Who could object to that?
>
>In a long-ago science fiction book _Sibyl Sue Blue_ by Rosel George Brown
>the two-fisted title character has a favorite drink which is always named in
>the text "gin and 'gin".  I could never figure out what that drink might be.
>
Well, there are at least two such drinks.  One is comprised of 12
parts gin diluted with 1 part gin, swirled with ice, and served neat
in a martini glass (olive optional), another is 1 part gin poured
over 2 parts gin and served over ice in a tumbler (lime optional).

Larry