This is an important distinction. The other one is that Ian Fleming purposefully wrote Bond as someone who was not at all well versed in etiquette so he just did whatever seemed like he knew his stuff so that Monte Carlo snobs wouldn’t notice he was a dirt poor orphan.
Yeah, the drink order is something pretentious sounding while being a fairly normal drink. It’s all about the con with Bond.
Edit: Eggsy’s drink in Kingsman serves the same purpose while simultaneously being more pretentious, more a normal drink, and absolutely making fun of Bond.
He drank vodka martinis
This is an important distinction. The other one is that Ian Fleming purposefully wrote Bond as someone who was not at all well versed in etiquette so he just did whatever seemed like he knew his stuff so that Monte Carlo snobs wouldn’t notice he was a dirt poor orphan.
Yeah, the drink order is something pretentious sounding while being a fairly normal drink. It’s all about the con with Bond.
Edit: Eggsy’s drink in Kingsman serves the same purpose while simultaneously being more pretentious, more a normal drink, and absolutely making fun of Bond.