The Gimlet, Gin, & Tonic: Colonialism, Medicine, and Cocktails
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2015
- The history of the Gimlet, and its connections to early medicine, colonialism, and the rise of the multinational corporation.
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I'm suddenly very thirsty and strangely in need of protection against scurvy and malaria!
This is an amazingly interesting video. Thank you, Alliterative, for it!
+audunhp thank you!
Bond, Erasmus Bond. I like my water carbonated not flat.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. The 007 reference got me, haha!! :P
Loved this one! Especially learning about the gin and tonic as that's my drink of choice.
Critical Lit Heh--I'm glad that amused you, too, it made us laugh! And of course a good G&T is very hard to beat. Thanks!
Ah, all those lovely long drinks (and short ones) you offer me now have even more punch (so to speak)!
Thanks! That's was quite the ride. Cheers.
I love this channel so much
another good one! now I must try a gimlet
This was great!
So interesting! Thanks!
The Italian name for Geneva, Switzerland is "Ginevra", and in the Philippines, there is a gin called "Ginebra," famous for its painting of the Archangel Michael slaying the Devil, which also makes of the full name of this gin: "Ginebra San Miguel"
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Interesting! Yet another gin to put on my (long) "to try" list!
Great video!
to fast! i cannot keep up! knowledge overload! must watch multiple times!
I watch at .75 speed myself. 😅🖖
Smedley Butler's short book War Is A Racket:
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I'd love to know how Rose's Lime has changed.
It's surprisingly difficult to pin down -- there may be different sugars in different markets, today, but it may also just be that they're differently labelled now.
Why do only so few people follow your episodes? That"s the pits. The people who actually watch your clips are not the same at all compared to the one's who do subscribe. Quite bizarre.
Now I can feel even more like a product of grimy colonialism than usual whenever I drink my favorite cocktail, thanks!
We’re here to ruin everything, you’re welcome. (Our favourite cocktail too!)
I always use fresh citrus when making drinks. I guess I'll never have the authentic gimlet experience.
Hey, you protect yourself from scurvy in whatever way makes you happy!
This episode piqued my curiosity so I decided to try as traditional a gimlet as I could make. At my local grocery store in North Carolina, they sell "Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice" with the same logo as your bottle except the words. According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%27s_lime_juice, this product is significantly different from that available in Canada, which is still closer to the original recipe. I made a gimlet with the recipe on the bottle (1 fluid oz. Rose's and 1.5 fluid oz. gin). I used Tanqueray and the result is not bad, but I can tell it's not fresh juice. BTW, a similar cocktail I like is the Aviation, without crème de violette, since I haven't found that liqueur yet.
Yes, the variation in Rose's from country to country was a slightly frustrating discovery when we were making that episode; it's hard to know how much of the variation is in the recipe, and how much is in the labelling ("high fructose corn syrup" is called "glucose-fructose" here, for instance). And it certainly doesn't taste like fresh juice; I like it, as its own drink, but can understand that it's not to everyone's taste. And yes to Aviations, a very tasty way to drink gin! We only recently found crème de violette here ourselves; it's a strong flavour, but in very small doses in the cocktail I like it.
heh... who would have thought? : D
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