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The Martini Test
Right then, inspired by the "Bond nerd" thread, here is another for nerds. Honest answers only please!
How many times have you got yourself all spruced up, glad rags on, switched on the turbo for a Friday night, gone out to your favourite bar, and ordered yourself a martini? All in the name of Bond, and for that brief moment, you actually feel a bit like him...! ?
The next problem shortly arises. That one martini made you feel sooo damn Bondish, you go for another. Two for me is good, I am actually Bond, and can chat up nearly anything on legs or not, the real problem starts with the third, I am then a public risk to myself and others!
One is never enough, three is too many.
Over to you guys and gals!
How many times have you got yourself all spruced up, glad rags on, switched on the turbo for a Friday night, gone out to your favourite bar, and ordered yourself a martini? All in the name of Bond, and for that brief moment, you actually feel a bit like him...! ?
The next problem shortly arises. That one martini made you feel sooo damn Bondish, you go for another. Two for me is good, I am actually Bond, and can chat up nearly anything on legs or not, the real problem starts with the third, I am then a public risk to myself and others!
One is never enough, three is too many.
Over to you guys and gals!
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"Do I look like I give a dam?"
But of course Bond does give a dam and I have had several moments when I imagined what it must be like to be the man.
Have to admit I have been let down by every martini I've had including the Vesper and Cucumber variety.
Don't know how the man drinks them. Give me a Whiskey Sour (New York type) and I am quite happy.
But yes it is nice to 'think' Bond on occasion!
I've tried them a couple of times on separate occasions...perhaps its something one can acquire a taste for...!
A good quality vodka is important--Absolut will do if you have nothing else, and hey I suppose Bond drinks it (according to his briefcase in NSNA)--but then again can you really trust that movie?
Exact same recipe (with more Gin than Vodka even if I am a Vodka man):
there is so much alcohol in it, the bars or restaurant or night clubs I've ordered it at, over the years, usually charge me double or triple the regular price of a cocktail.
Also, every time I have ordered one, the bartender or waitresses/waiters have looked at me strange; sometime in awe, sometime in admiration and sometime with the Are You Crazy look!
But many of the ladies and gentlemen I have introduced the Vesper to have loved it!!
I am so used to it that I am know to drink 5-6 of them and not even get tipsy!
Do you use a substitute?
A good bartender WILL hate to shake it, it waters it down to much, as the ice chips into the alcohol, taking away the pure taste....
Olive or a twist?
I like the flavor the olive adds myself.
as far as the Kina Lillet goes, I use a dry vermouth - most bars and restaurants and night clubs carry the Cinzano Vermouth or the Noilly Pratt Vermouth.
and yes, I expect the bartender to add the ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake it well, strain just the liquid into a 250ml / 8.8 Oz Martini Glass
any other glass is unacceptable to me!!
It kept me going at work for the rest of the day!!