From Ian Fleming's "Thunderball"
CHAPTER 11
(Of Domino Petachi, in Nassau.)
Bond glanced at his watch. He said to the girl, “It’s exactly midday. Do you want to drink solid or soft?”
The girl said, “Soft. I’ll have a double Bloody Mary with plenty of Worcestershire sauce..”
Bond said, “What do you call hard? I’ll have a vodka and tonic with a dash of bitters.” The waiter said “Yassuh” and mooched away.
“I call vodka-on-the-rocks hard. All that tomato juice makes it soft. She hooked a chair toward her with one foot and stretched out her legs on it so that they were in the sun.
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