Martini

[anarch]

Can't imagine what's got me thinking of drinking a martini....

[kick-ass-bob]

1. You're just weird like that.

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[EstimatedProphet]

2. Gin-with olives, dammit!

Get to have a salad with your drink!

[anarch]

5. indeed.

anything else is not a martini! But yet you can order all kinds of weird things with sour apple mix and other disgusting substances, and they are for some reason referred to as "martinis". :shrug:

[swimboy]

3. Bombay Sapphire with

A TWIST!

[anarch]

7. good stuff!

I don't know why the hell I torture myself thinking about this sort of thing, with still more than an hour left to work....

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Now you're talking!

Or Tanqueray $10, or Damrak...
But not with a twist, sorry. Olives for me.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. Yes!

Olives are an excellent way to ruin a perfectly good drink.

[Taverner]

4. It's not a Martini if its not made with Gin

It's a "vodka martini" if made with vodka, but i get irked when a bartender asks if I want gin or vodka in my martini...

[anarch]

6. me too!

'course, I also get a little irked when the bartender actually puts vermouth in my martini. I like the Winston Churchill recipe: "Cast a glance at an unopened bottle of vermouth while pouring the gin..."

[EstimatedProphet]

9. I like the extra-dry vermouth

That works for me. Not the sweet stuff, yuck.

[tjwmason]

11. Exactly - gin is the only way to go.

and decent gin too.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. And straight up too!

Whoever heard of a martini on the rocks anyway?

[swimboy]

12. I sent one back.

and the server rolled her eyes and said, "Well, you didn't say you wanted it up!"

Yes, I did. I said I wanted a martini.

And that

should be

that.

[gpandas]

13. a vodka martini is just that...

while a martini is gin, not gin martini.