Gin and Tonic - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The transgalactic nature of the gin and tonic is discussed in Douglas Adams' novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

"It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian "chinanto/mnigs" which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan "tzjin-anthony-ks" which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds."

James Bond specifies a recipe of how to make a gin and tonic whilst in Kingston, Jamaica in the book Dr. No. Unusually it involves the juice of a whole lime.

In the movie The Year of Living Dangerously, Colonel Henderson complains when his gin and tonic is served with ice, explaining that only Americans drink it like that.

Oasis mention the cocktail in their song Supersonic: "I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic".