# Did you know that today is World Gin Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231 "2019-06-08T22:13:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/1 "2019-06-08T22:13:55Z")
At least, that’s what it says on the invite for a happy hour we got from some neighbour’s. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/2 "2019-06-08T22:26:03Z")
I’ll drink to that! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/3 "2019-06-08T22:35:37Z")
Excellent! I just ran out of bourbon again. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/4 "2019-06-08T22:46:26Z")
off to the liquor store to get a mickey of gin as a hostess gift. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/5 "2019-06-08T22:53:42Z")
From \* My Fair Lady\* “Eliza Doolittle: They all thought she was dead. But my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl right off the spoon. Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: But it can’t have been right for your father to be pouring spirits down her throat like that, it could have killed her. Eliza Doolittle: Not her, gin was mother’s milk to her. Besides he poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/6 "2019-06-08T23:05:59Z")
From, “Friends With Benefits,”: I’m hungry… got any gin? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/7 "2019-06-09T00:08:06Z")
I give you William Hogarth’s BEER STREET and GIN LANE. Depictions of the healthful attributes of beer, and the evils of gin-drinking. “Drunk for a penny, dead-drunk for tuppence.” > **[Beer Street and Gin Lane](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane)** > > Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they depict the evils of the consumption of gin as a contrast to the merits of drinking beer. At almost the same time and on the same subject, Hogarth's friend Henry Fielding published An Inquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers. Issued together with The Four Stages of Cruelty, the prints continued a movement started ... I toast Hogarth’s genius with my second martini. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/8 "2019-06-09T02:16:00Z")
Had a lovely time. Garden party with much chit-chat, a couple of G&T (Tanqueray No 10 with Fever Tree Tonic) and braised beef sandwiches. +15 C. Dropped off à Mickey of Bombay Sapphire as an entrance gift. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/9 "2019-06-09T08:54:53Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Had a lovely time. Garden party with much chit-chat, a couple of G&T (Tanqueray No 10 with Fever Tree Tonic) and braised beef sandwiches. +15 C. Dropped off à Mickey of Bombay Sapphire as an entrance gift. Sounds like fun! My go-to G&T is a Tanqueray and tonic, but one time, the barman reached for the Tanqueray No. 10. Even though the tonic was either Schweppes or Canada Dry, what a difference an excellent gin makes. I will have to look for Fever Tree Tonic. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/10 "2019-06-09T09:27:49Z")
Is it just me, or does anyone else find that the second G&T is never anywhere near as good as the first? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/11 "2019-06-09T11:43:27Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Sounds like fun! My go-to G&T is a Tanqueray and tonic, but one time, the barman reached for the Tanqueray No. 10. Even though the tonic was either Schweppes or Canada Dry, what a difference an excellent gin makes. I will have to look for Fever Tree Tonic. I asked my host where he got it, and he said a little boutique store called Safeway. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/12 "2019-06-09T15:41:55Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Is it just me, or does anyone else find that the second G&T is never anywhere near as good as the first? But the third is always excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/13 "2019-06-09T15:58:52Z")
If I drank, Gin would be it. I used to be a token bartender for Daddy. He said I made excellent Martinis. They always smelled so good. Happy Gin day! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/14 "2019-06-09T16:46:38Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I asked my host where he got it, and he said a little boutique store called Safeway. 😃 The local Safeway in these parts has a beer selection second to none! It’s really quite amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/15 "2019-06-09T18:02:33Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Excellent! I just ran out of bourbon again. Damn it! Now the GIN is gone. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/16 "2019-06-09T21:12:12Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I asked my host where he got it, and he said a little boutique store called Safeway. 😃 Thanks for the tip–I’ll look for it the next time I’m at Safeway. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/17 "2019-06-09T23:44:11Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Damn it! Now the GIN is gone. If you’re looking for a suggestion, here in Canada, National Caesar Day is coming up. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/18 "2019-06-09T23:50:06Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If I drank, Gin would be it. I used to be a token bartender for Daddy. He said I made excellent Martinis. They always smelled so good. > Happy Gin day! The smell of gin is a childhood memory for me, for much the same reason. My parents had a bridge club that met at their house every couple of months, and Dad always mixed cocktails for the guests. (It was before wine came to North America.). Whisky sours, rye and coke, rum and coke were standards, but he also always made Tom Collinses. He made his own bar syrup for the Tom Collins. The gin just smelt so good and different from all the rest - that’s the one I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/19 "2019-06-10T04:38:16Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > The smell of gin is a childhood memory for me, for much the same reason. Same here. I well remember lazy summer afternoons at the cottage, when Mom and Dad would want a drink before dinner. My sister and I would act as bartenders and prepare a G&T for Mom, and a beer for Dad (which, actually, was more difficult than it sounds, as Dad liked his bottled beer served in a glass, with as little head on the beer as possible). We both got to know the aromas of both quite well. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2019, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231/20 "2019-06-10T06:45:50Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > We both got to know the aromas of both quite well. Upon a re-read, this can be confusing. Let me clarify: “My sister and I got to know the aromas of both gin and beer quite well.” I don’t know if my original remark was confusing, but just to make sure (this is the SDMB, after all), I clarified. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-that-today-is-world-gin-day/835231.md?page=2)