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 the old codger |
James Bond's Drinks |
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Posts: 197 (11/20/08 07:12:10) |
OK, so 007 doesn't do classic martinis, but this might be an interesting read nonetheless.
http://cocktails.about.co...-in-quantum-of-solace.htm the old codger (who hasn't seen the film, as yet, and has never tried a Vesper) |
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Posts: 108 (11/27/08 03:13:37) |
No, Bond is not a Martini drinker by the estimate of most people here. In the first novel he orders some dreadful concoction involving both gin and vodka,
lemon peel and (if I recall correctly) Lillet vermouth. After that, Bond orders nothing but Vodkatinis for the rest of his career. It leads me to wonder: who
is the most famous classic Martini drinker in fiction?
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the old codger |
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Posts: 233 (11/27/08 09:57:31) Moderator |
Off the top of my head, how about these.......
Fictional: Hawkeye, Trapper John and B.J. from M*A*S*H, Nick and Nora Charles from "The Thin Man" films....... Factual: Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon......... ....and I'm sure there are many more...... the old codger (who isn't fictional, but surely is a figment of a warped imagination) |
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Posts: 237 (11/27/08 12:38:20) |
Hi everybody,
It's good to see some activity on the board again. Thanks to The Old Codger for stirring things up again. From what I remember, Bond actually ordered a Gin martini from time to time in the books. (Ia am quite sure that he did in Dr. No. And he didn't even order it shaken, not stirred.) The fictional martini drinker that comes to my mind first is Colonel Richard Cantwell. To the list of factual martini drinkers, I would like to add Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Bogie and FDR. Cheers. |
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Posts: 22 (11/29/08 20:36:26) |
And I love a Vesper, my whole deal has always been to call a True Martini (w/ gin) a Maritni. A Vesper on the other hand has it's own name and is a great
Martini like Cocktail. Happy Drinking (and Posting) Zigy PS Thanx OC
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the old codger |
Adding to Didi's inclusion of FDR to the list of classic martini drinkers | ||
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Posts: 203 (01/15/09 12:00:57) |
Franklin's Martinis
"If truth be known, Franklin used to make the most terrible Martinis. I don't drink Martinis, but everyone always said they were perfectly awful. However, people drank them with zest because he had made them." I Remember Hyde Park: A Final Reminiscence by Eleanor Roosevelt, McCall's, February 1963. the old codger (yeah, like who's gonna tell a president that he's wrong.....come to think of it, didn't the voters just do that here in the States...  )
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Posts: 62 (01/15/09 14:30:38) |
Add to the factual (actual?) drinker list Dorothy Parker, who is credited with the following: "I love to have a martini, two at the very most, at three
I'm under the table, at four I'm under the host." Of course, she also gave us, when asked to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence:
"You can lead a #@%@% (edited by YUKU but you can figure it out) to culture, but you can't make her think." And:
"If they laid all of the coeds from Yale end-to-end, I wouldn't be surprised."
As to FDR, added by Didi, he signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volsted Act, on March 23, 1933, allowing the brewing of "3.2 beer" and setting the end for the 18th Amendment and the "Noble Experiment." Upon signing the amendment, Roosevelt made his famous remark; "I think this would be a good time for a beer." The 18th Amendment was repealed later in 1933 with ratification of the 21st Amendment on December 5. (This latter information courtesy of Wikipedia.)
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the old codger |
Summerduck posted, "Also, I think that W.C. Handy imbibed them".... | ||
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Posts: 204 (01/15/09 19:17:13) |
With all due respect to Summerduck, I think he may have his W.C.s mixed up. Surely he meant W.C. Fields, not W.C. Handy, "The Father of the
Blues", esteemed muscian and composer whose "St. Louis Blues" lives on today.
the old codger (who hates to nit-pick and isn't even sure which W.C. drank martinis......note that I've resisted taking this comment to the Water Closet  )
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Posts: 63 (01/16/09 08:25:26) |
Mea culpa. Codger, your gentle correction is appreciated. I, too, am not certain that W.C. Fields drank martinis. Although I do recall pictures of him
sipping a clear liquid from the classic cocktail glass that one associates with martinis (and Manhattans served "up"), they were from film clips and
who knows what he actually sipped, but I imagine that he did drink them. The quotes are purportedly from him, as I have no knowledge of such statements from
the famous son of Florence, Alabama, rightfully noted by you as the "Father of the Blues."
Add to the factual list, 1940-50's restaurateur Toots Shor, who drank Jackie Gleason under the table (and left him on the floor to prove that point). According to legend, when his doctor told him to cut back to one martini a day, he poured a little out of a bottle of gin, filled the bottle back up with vermouth, and called that his one-a-day martini. |
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