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Pizzawheel

Jul 24th 2016 7:12 am

Thought from UK- tonic water

Tesco's has a range of tonic waters. Including the low-cal cucumber infused one I'm kicking back with now.

Brand-name CanAmerica has Schweppes/ CanadaDry full fat straight tonic- and that's it. The choice in the UK may be mental- but cucumber is a natural partner of gin and this stuff is gooooooooood.

BristolUK

Jul 24th 2016 11:03 am

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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel (Post 12010973)

I'm not sure I've even seen diet tonic water over here. Cucumber? :confused:

withabix

Jul 24th 2016 2:04 pm

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Superstore/Loblaws sells diet tonic water in Presidents Choice brand.

Strangely, Schweppes and Canada Dry belong to the same company now (Motts), which is a subsidiary of Dr Pepper....

Have you tried the cucumber in the gin rather than in the tonic?

Gin-wise, I'm still working on a bottle of Bombay Sapphire - not everyone's cup-of-tea (lol) but my current favourite.

Next up is The Botanist Islay Dry Gin that I picked up at Heathrow....might be a pleasant change...

Simon Legree

Jul 24th 2016 2:23 pm

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Originally Posted by withabix (Post 12011161)

Try a Pink Gin. A couple of drops of Angostura Bitters in a glass. Swish it around to coat the inside of the glass. Dump out the excess. Add the gin and the tonic et voila Pink Gin. Try it. You might like it. The bitters gives it a nice kick. I was weened on it ! ;)

Atlantic Xpat

Jul 24th 2016 10:15 pm

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This stuff http://www.thethirdplacetonic.com/ has been getting rave reviews here. Not tried it as I'm not a big gin drinker.

Pizzawheel

Jul 25th 2016 4:22 am

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Diet tonic you can only get in a 2L bottle which isn't most practical; metro does a 1L. Cans, no chance.

Picked up tonic with jasmine flavour today.

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12011077)

I'm not sure I've even seen diet tonic water over here. Cucumber? :confused:

Novocastrian

Jul 25th 2016 8:57 am

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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel (Post 12011722)

Diet tonic you can only get in a 2L bottle which isn't most practical; metro does a 1L. Cans, no chance.

What's the point of diet tonic? The gin has five times the calories of non-diet tonic, used in normal ratios. I doubt that anybody thinks of G&T as a slimming aid.

Unless of course you use it as an excuse to forget having dinner.

bats	Jul 25th 2016 2:45 pm

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12011897)

But the calories in tonic are non essential.

Simon Legree

Jul 25th 2016 3:19 pm

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12011897)

. I doubt that anybody thinks of G&T as a slimming aid.

Bugger me. That's the only reason I drink G & T ! I always thought that maybe it was the Angostura bitters that made me look fat. :lol:

Pizzawheel

Jul 25th 2016 9:06 pm

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Originally Posted by Simon Legree (Post 12012053)

Bugger me. That's the only reason I drink G & T ! I always thought that maybe it was the Angostura bitters that made me look fat. :lol:

Novo's normal ratio is one bottle of gin to one shot of tonic, to be fair.

I like it in a pint glass sat on the deck, whole can of tonic, large slug of gin, ice, cucumbers, etc. And I like more than one. So yeah, slimline is important to me...

Novocastrian

Jul 25th 2016 11:00 pm

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Originally Posted by Pizzawheel (Post 12012184)

I could think of something better for you to do with the cucumber. ;)

Pizzawheel

Jul 26th 2016 7:34 am

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 12012247)

I could think of something better for you to do with the cucumber. ;)

Reminds me of one time in Preston, Friday night before a big birthday party. One lad asleep on the couch, two of us still sipping, before retiring to bed my mates wife gave us a selection of snacks- crackers, cheeses etc. And after saying good night put her head back in the door and said "do NOT put those cocktail gherkins up Jame's nose".

Which was very considerate because we hadn't thought of that.

SchnookoLoly

Jul 27th 2016 4:09 am

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Yeah I pick up the bottles of diet tonic from Metro in the Selection brand. It's 99c for a 1L bottle. Cans would be more convenient, I don't drink enough G&T to empty out a 1L bottle of tonic, but it's not exactly expensive and I'm not having them all the time, so meh.

It would be nice to find it in cans, though.

BristolUK

Jul 27th 2016 4:56 am

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Originally Posted by SchnookoLoly (Post 12013474)

...It's 99c for a 1L bottle...

Add a dash of Rose's lime cordial to the tonic rather than let it go off.

It's a nice refreshing drink.

SchnookoLoly

Jul 27th 2016 5:16 am

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12013507)

Add a dash of Rose's lime cordial to the tonic rather than let it go off.

It's a nice refreshing drink.

Nice. Where might I find that?

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