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2025.04.08 05:11
Philip Larkin's gin & tonic
| The poem is Sympathy in White Major Here’s the first verse. When I drop four cubes of ice Chimingly in a glass, and add Three goes of gin, a lemon slice, And let a ten-ounce tonic void In foaming gulps until it smothers Everything else up to the edge, I lift the lot in private pledge: He devoted his life to others. Larkin would’ve probably used Schweppes tonic. In 1967 a “go” (spirit measure) was usually 25ml, 35 ml in some establishments. 10 fluid oz is 284 ml. So Larkin's recipe is probably 75ml gin plus 300ml tonic. I used 50 ml gin and a whole can of tonic (150ml) for each one. [link] [comments] |