I told someone that I work with that I like Gin and Tonic's and then they asked me if I was an old woman. I have no idea what they meant by that.
Sometimes, I make a tequila and tonic, it mixes pretty well and isn't bad straight.
YMMV, I used to work with some people that considered a straight up gin martini a sissy drink. I'd drink them anyways with a couple olives at a decent place when we were out at a bar now and then.
Ignorance abounds in some areas of life sometimes.
Gin and Tonics aren't the same socially as what they used to be, many people seem to think they are old fashioned these days I guess. The Brits used to drink them just for the lime and tonic water as a anti malarial thing I believe, but that was quinine water.
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History
The cocktail was introduced by the army of the
British East India Company in
India. In India and other tropical regions,
malaria was a persistent problem. In the 1700s it was discovered that
quinine could be used to prevent and treat the disease, although the bitter taste was unpleasant. British officers in India in the early 19th century took to adding a mixture of water, sugar, lime and gin to the quinine in order to make the drink more palatable.
[17] Soldiers in India were already given a gin ration, and the sweet concoction made sense.
[18] Since it is no longer used as an antimalarial, tonic water today contains much less quinine, is usually sweetened, and is consequently much less bitter.
[19]
Gin and tonic is a popular cocktail during the summer.
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*edit* I have a pretty cool Gin and Tonic story I won't repeat again
In popular culture
The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is imagined in
Douglas Adams' novel
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which describes how "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 served 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."