In the TV series M*A*S*H, characters Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John McIntyre and B.J. Hunnicutt distill gin for martinis in their tent ("the Swamp"). Hawkeye declares, "actually, I'm pursuing my lifelong quest for the perfect, the absolutely driest martini to be found in this or any other world. And I think I may have hit upon the perfect formula." Trapper responds, "five-to-one?" Hawkeye replies, "Not quite. You pour six jiggers of gin, and you drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth." (Vermouth was actually developed by Antonio Benedetto Carpano.)
In the television show The West Wing's episode "Stirred", President Jed Bartlet asks, "can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?" "Nothing," his aide Charlie Young replies. Bartlet ignores him. "Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."
In the television show The West Wing's episode "Stirred", President Jed Bartlet asks, "can I tell you what's messed up about James Bond?" "Nothing," his aide Charlie Young replies. Bartlet ignores him. "Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."
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