^That's the Desert Dry Martini. Gin, and then you introduce the vermouth to it without actually putting any in.

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>> ^RKW:
Winston Churchill legendarily made a martini by pouring a glass of Gin and taking a glance at a bottle of vermouth, or letting the sun shine through the bottle of vermouth onto the glass of gin.


Sounds like a homeopathic cocktail.

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:
>> ^residue:
Uh..If you let a bunch of ice melt in one and not the other one, of course it will taste different..

Yup, they should have sifted out the ice, and it would be a more fair test. Or at least done both the melting and the sifting.


I'm guessing they just made the shaken one first - then as the ice is basically melted made the stirred one. This way they both are about the same temperature.

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>> ^gorillaman:
Speaking of anal, this whole test is void because they're not tasting real martinis, which must have an odd number of olives.

But two is an odd number of olives for a martini.

Speaking of anal, this whole test is void because they're not tasting real martinis, which must have an odd number of olives.

But James Bond orders a vodka martini, I wonder if the results would be the same.

>> ^residue:
Uh..If you let a bunch of ice melt in one and not the other one, of course it will taste different..


Yup, they should have sifted out the ice, and it would be a more fair test. Or at least done both the melting and the sifting.

Winston Churchill legendarily made a martini by pouring a glass of Gin and taking a glance at a bottle of vermouth, or letting the sun shine through the bottle of vermouth onto the glass of gin.

>> ^laura:
I love those guys.
My answer to the "so if you have no god, you can just do what you want?" is always a resounding "YES!"
I always think to myself "why is that so astonishing? If you knew God wasn't looking would you run over and kill someone because that's what you really want to do?"
The thing is, we're all doing whatever we want to do. A lot of people really like to play pretend, it makes them feel good like this martini makes me feel good...the difference is I don't need anyone to save me from myself, I'm just that stable.


Ray, when someone asks if you can do anything you want, because God doesn't exist, you say YES!!!

I love those guys.
My answer to the "so if you have no god, you can just do what you want?" is always a resounding "YES!"
I always think to myself "why is that so astonishing? If you knew God wasn't looking would you run over and kill someone because that's what you really want to do?"

The thing is, we're all doing whatever we want to do. A lot of people really like to play pretend, it makes them feel good like this martini makes me feel good...the difference is I don't need anyone to save me from myself, I'm just that stable.

(fans cards) Is this your star? No? Hmmm. (fans cards again) Is this your star? (grumble...) Iiiis this your star? (100 card pulled) Ha ha!

Congratulations ya martini-swilling pachyderm! It looks good on ya.

*promote the martini-wielding elephantman!

Tonight's martinis are gin and pickled onions... same basic recipe as the dirty olive ones, but with the onions. The brine is certainly different, much more... oniony... I definitely like the olive ones better, but these are growing on my as the night goes on...

A whaa? I bet you had cucumbers all sorts of places that was brilliant...

>> ^KnivesOut:
Had a cucumber martini that was brilliant. It was just a big glass of cucumber-infused gin. I think they might have rinsed the glass in vermouth, but it was barely there.