Gibson (cocktail) than the onion into the 1930s and beyond, but still none use bitters. The famous Polished Gibson is garnished with a potato. The drink is traditionally made with gin, but the vodka Gibson is also common. The exact origin of the Gibson is unclear, with numerous popular tales and theories about its genesis. According to one popular theory Charles Dana Gibson is responsible for the creation of the Gibson, when he supposedly challenged Charley Connolly, the bartender of the Players Club in New York City, to improve upon the martini's recipe, so Connolly simply substituted an onion for the olive
Gibson (cocktail) make a customer a Smirnoff Gibson at the Bull and Bar in New York City as a final test for completing the course, comically arranging the drink in a haphazard and incorrect manner before attempting to charge the customer $600. Philip Marlowe orders one in the Raymond Chandler detective novel "Playback": "...I ordered a double Gibson and asked if I could have a club sandwich where I was." In Season 3, Episode 2 of "Mad Men", "Love Among the Ruins," Roger Sterling orders a "Gibson, up" at a lunch meeting. Gibson (cocktail) The Gibson is a mixed drink made with