On 2009-01-14, Cindy Hamilton > wrote:

> Ah. Usenet and humor are tricky that way. It's easy to miss that one
> is joking.

Being a kid of the fifties and no stranger to my parent's occassional
martini cocktail parties, I'd heard all those old jokes by time I was five.
It took the internet to teach me a few new ones. My fave is that Winston
Churchill's idea of a dry martini was 3 jiggers of gin while looking at a
bottle of Vermouth from across the room.

I'm not sure of the bases for the "dry" or "extra dry" martini. Perhaps
some stigma against drinking straight gin left over from prohibition. I
don't mind a good straight gin, but I prefer it with a bit of Vermouth. In
fact, what I REALLY like is Martini & Rossi wht Vermouth on the rocks.
Probably my favorite Summer iced drink.

nb