Cock-tales: Check Out How These 5 Iconic Cocktails Came Into Being

Bloody Mary Cocktails

Now we all know that alcohol is a blessing. Period. And a certain manifestation of the world’s favorite liquid carries the name – Cocktail. Cocktails are amazing because well, they are cocktails. But do we all know how they came into being? We dug a little deep to find out. The origins may be debatable, but they sound astounding!

 

Long Island Iced Tea: Once a bartender in Long Island, Robert “Rosebud” Butt in 1972 claims that he conjured up a mixed drink blending in a lot of liquor including Triple Sec. The origin of this iconic drinks’ name has no creative brainstorming history. However, an Old Man Bishop claims that in 1920, he invented LIT with an additional shot of whiskey and maple syrup, just when the Prohibition kicked in. All we can say is thank god for LIT.

 

 

Martini: Alessandro Martini, founder of Martini & Rossi, is supposed to be the name behind Bond’s favorite drink. (For those who don’t know about Martini & Rossi; they are one of the leading vermouth makers of the world.) The drink came into the market in 1853. But unsurprisingly, there’s another damn story to this too. In the 1860s, some claim this drink became famous at the Occidental Hotel in San Francisco, where travelers would take a pit-stop to sip this baby before they embarked on a ferry to a nearby town named Martinez. You can’t make this shit up.

 

Mojito: An epidemic of dysentery and scurvy took over when English soldiers and sailors, led by a certain Francis Drake, captured the Spanish city of Cartagena de Indias. In came the natives with their remedy – sugarcane juice mixed with lime, mint and crude rum. Imagine dysentery being treated with Mojito – life could not be any better.

 

 

Margarita: Don Carlos, who was a bartender in Ensenada, Mexico, offered the first sip of this cocktail to Margarita Henkel, daughter of the German Ambassador in 1941. There are other stories too. The Margarita became so famous that it has a glass of its own. Americans drink it out of pitchers and mugs as well, but then they voted for Trump too, so….

 

 

Bloody Mary: Famous bartender Fernand Petiot claims to have prepared this drink for Soviet foil fencer Vladimir Smirnov in 1921 at the New York Bar in Paris. He claims to have perfected songwriter and actor George Jessel’s original drink. But then Jessel did not live to defend, did he? How can one mispronounce Vladimir as Bloody Mary? Bloody amazing!

 

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