remnants of the empire

Before they were British, they were just a bunch of heathens, conquered by the Romans and the Gauls and the Saxons. Then they turned the tables and eventually forged an empire that required tonic water because of malaria - because of mosquitoes - because of exploring and tromping around in swampy, steamy armpits of the earth - because somebody had to run everything and who else but the British? And tonic water was so bitter but they needed the quinine to ward of the parasites clinging to the proboscis of the dastardly disease-carrying insect, so, gin and tonic was born.

Welcome to the new world.