How do you take your Martini?

Cold gin in a cup

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Vodka, splash of olive juice, two olives,

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I add three ice cubes. Tito vodka for me. Half the price of Grey Goose.

I'm disappointed in many here

Gin. Dry. Up.

Hendrick's Gin, up, three olives, dry.

Gin (Bombay Sapphire) on the rocks. Shaken to allow oxygen in. Olive. 1 drop of Angustura Bitters. No vermouth.

Gin, down, twist

vodka, rocks, vermouth coats ice, two olives, cocktail onion

gin, dry, up, 3 olives

Slice a bit of lemon peel and wipe the inside rim of a martini glass. Drop peel in glass.

Fill a shaker to the top with ice. Tiny splash of sweet vermouth, and tiny splash of dry vermouth (tiny splash = as little as can be poured in.)

About a 4 count of gin (vodka if you like). A little larger splash of olive juice than vermouth.

Shake it until it's super cold. (Use a glass to cover the shaker, not those annoying martini shakers).

Strain into glass.

I find it odd that we call something with vodka in it a "martini" in the first place. What people call a vodka martini is pretty clearly its own drink, and it should have its own name.

This is not to say that the martini is "better" or "more authentic" than a vodka martini (really, who cares about whether your booze is "authentic?") But it really is a different thing.