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I also like gin and tonic.  I prefer Tanqueray.  I just bought four bottles of super fancy tonic water to try but haven't yet.  

The problem for me with tonic water is the sugar, which I'm mightily trying to avoid where possible.  My reading suggests that intake of fructose is not a good thing for humans.  It is metabolized differently than glucose and the pathway is probably not good at all.

I also like gin and tonic.  I prefer Tanqueray.  I just bought four bottles of super fancy tonic water to try but haven't yet.  

The problem for me with tonic water is the sugar, which I'm mightily trying to avoid where possible.  My reading suggests that intake of fructose is not a good thing for humans.  It is metabolized differently than glucose and the pathway is probably not good at all.

drink your gin on the rocks with a twist of lemon or lime and pass on the tonic
Tanqueray is fine, but there are better gins that don't require the tonic.  My go to is Bombay Sapphire.  There are others that are better. 

Bombay Sapphire is my favorite vodka.

In the spring and summer my cocktails of choice tend to be  Sapphire and tonic, and the margarita.  

In the winter I tend to drink more whiskey, and that's generally neat.

I love an Old Fashioned, had no idea it had become trendy but that's not surprising.  What's old is new again. 

And so it goes.

I do like flavored vodka straight on ice with a twist also.  It gets me a bit too hammered a bit too fast though.

Back when I started blogging, my tagline was "The world's youngest curmudgeon."

Now I've fully aged into it.

I found your blog once after you mentioned it on here once. Good stuff. 
Of course I also happened to stumble across your you tube channel, while I was searching for said blog. 

I can recall as a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, my parents threw a lot of those 60s/70s style "Cocktail Parties."  Which is not something you see very often these days among my own age/peer group, even though we're the same age or older as my parents were at the time.  Like many other things, I think we're getting less formal as time goes on and the "Cocktail Party" has morphed into more of a gathering or get-together or hangout.  Occasionally though I intentionally throw a real Cocktail Party just for the vintage throw-back fun of it.

Anyway, the heart of these Cocktail Parties was the converted-garage "playroom" which actually was more like a game room or an adult parlor with a full wet bar, pool table, mood lighting, etc.  And I can vividly recall as a kid, one of the more distinct drinks that one of my dad's friends always ordered, was a "Beefeater's With Four Olives."  I had no idea what that was or what that meant, but that was his thing, that was his signature drink, and it's the only thing I ever saw him drink over the years.

I hadn't drank a vodka in years, and was finally told by enough different disconnected people to try Tito's and while it's still never going to be my go to, we always now have a bottle in the house, and while I do have a couple cream sauces I use it in, it's not that much, and it somehow keeps disappearing.