The Shanghai Gesture1941

Poppy:
You don't drink, Mother Gin Sling? Is your name Chinese or English?

'Mother' Gin Sling:
Indeed Gin Sling is English. It's a nickname as common in this part of the world as the drink sold over the counter.

Poppy:
Why Gin Sling? Why not Whiskey Soda?

'Mother' Gin Sling:
There was a girl called Whiskey Soda too. And another one - Martini. And one called Scotch Highball, another Benedictine. In other places I might have been called Rose, or Violet, or Lily, or, eh, even Poppy.