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The best Gin and Tonic I ever has was in Ireland where when you ordered one they gave you a glass of ice, a miniature bottle of their local gin and a small bottle of local tonic water so you could pour your own. No flat tonic water from sitting on the bar all day.
Funny that you mentioned this about Ireland.
Our first trip to Ireland was by boat. After arriving at our final port before flying home, we took the boat's owner to dinner. He wanted a Gin and Tonic but he was afraid the tonic would have high fructose corn syrup(HFCS). We had a long conversation about tonic water and HFCS. I think the waiter thought we were nuts.
Our friend eventually ordered the G&T, and as happened to you, the waiter brought the gin and tonic water, each in their own bottle. We thought he did that because of our HFCS conversation.
The first thing we did was look at the ingredient list for the Schweppes tonic water.

The tonic water was bottled in Scotland and had NO HFCS.
During my first trip to the grocery store back at home, I picked up a bottle of Schweppes tonic water and read the ingredients. Yep, HFCS.
During our second Ireland trip, we stayed at a wee, small town in a rural area. The pub was right next to the AirBnB.

To be fair there were six or so pubs and bars in this wee, small town so one did not have to walk far to get a drink.
One night at the pub, we started talking with a couple sitting next to us. Many a long story about that couple but to stay on topic, the man was drinking G&Ts. Every G&T order had it's own bottle of gin and Schweppes tonic water. Soooo, the waiter did NOT bring us the Schweppes tonic water bottle because of our HFCS conversation on our first visit.
