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[venta]

Some time around now - today, according to the mother, though I don't know where she got her info from - we can celebrate the 150th anniversary of the G&T.

The gin and tonic was invented (by the British army) in the hot climes of India, when foul-tasting quinine-laden tonic water was still the best way to ward off malaria.

I think it says a lot about the Victorians that, faced with unpalatable medication, their solution was to mix it with gin.

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1751

[(Anonymous)]

1751, also the shortest year in British history, was when the government restricted the alcohol content of gin. Previously it had been in the range of 80% to 90% alcohol. Over the following few years there was a huge rise in the birthrate, and a reduction in deaths through alcohol poisoning!

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