A while ago we attended a showing of No Time to Die…….yes, that James Bond film, where he finally-No! We won’t spoil it for those who have not yet seen it. But those who have can imagine our feelings as we stood watching the credits role, shouting futile protests at the projection team, who weren’t there because such people don’t exist anymore.
Fortunately, our companion led us, still in mourning, to an agreeable Italian Restaurant, where we could sample the high life, just like he used to, before………enough said! And fortunately these people were party to a scientific discovery of such magnitude, and yet of such simplicity, that it completely restored our spirits and general belief in the world. For sitting on the menu for pre-dinner cocktails was a brainwave which took a simple gin and tonic and transformed it, completely transformed it, into something wondrous and new. What do you think it could have been, gentle readers?
Add a shot of Campari
Yep, that old red fluid, so beloved of under age drinkers in 1980s discotheques added such a zing and spice to an otherwise mundane tincture, that we were quite restored and ready to face the hurdles of the main menu and wine list (we nearly always go for a nice Primitivo, for the record) Soon our sorrow and despair for poor old James was transformed into a kind of “well, poor old chap, but he’s gone to a better place, etc etc, who’s for a spot of tiramisu?” When the evening was rounded off by the arrest of a ghastly old man for abusing the waiters, our happiness was complete.
So there you are. Try it. Campari and gin and tonic. Give it a whirl. James Bond would have thanked you for it.
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