Long Island Iced Tea
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Template:Wikibookspar A Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, and rum. A popular variation mixes vodka, gin, rum, tequila, triple sec, and sweetened lime juice with Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or a similar soda.
Some claim that the drink, like most cocktails, was invented during the Prohibition era, as a way of taking the appearance of a non-alcoholic drink (iced tea). This has led to its frequent use in fiction as a method to get a teetotaler drunk.
However, stronger evidence suggests that the Long Island Iced Tea was in fact invented in the 1970s by Robert "Rosebud" Butt, a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn (OBI) nightclub in Hampton Bays, NY.
Variations of this drink include:
- Alaskan Iced Tea
- Electric Iced Tea
- California Iced Tea - made with Lemonade and Blue Curacao instead of Coke.
- Beverly Hills Iced Tea - made with Champagne instead of Coke.
- Baptist Redemption - a Long Island Iced Tea without Coke.
See also
Template:Food-stub de:Long Island Ice Tea fr:Long Island Iced Teait:Long Island Ice Tea ja:ロングアイランド・アイスティー zh:長島冰茶
External Links
- Citations lending credence to the OBI theory of origin (http://www.barrypopik.com/article/768/long-island-long-island-iced-tea)