“Never saw the point in vodka martinis. How can a drink be made from either gin or vodka and go by the very same name? That’s something else I don’t understand.”
The original Martini contained gin and gin only. Vodka was later substituted for the gin and it created a new drink called the “Vodka Martini” it became so popular that the vodka martini is consumed just as much, if not more than the gin version. That’s why people tell the bartender that they’ll have a vodka or gin martini so they know what to pour.
Thanks. I’m glad you didn’t tell me the original martini was vodka. That would have been harsh. Still I wish when they switched to vodka they could have come up with a distinct name. Something along the lines of...oh, I don’t know...crapini?
Sorry. I really like an extremely good, ***extremely*** dry gin martini. As soon as vodka’s in there, it doesn’t seem like a martini to me.