Long Island Ice Tea?!
Answers: Other than the answer "Long Island" does anyone know how the drink came to be known as Long Island Ice Tea? What is it about Long Island for example? Any info given that is good will get 10 points. Thanks.
Around 1976, a bartender at Oak Beach Inn of Hampton Bays, Long Island , concocted a drink from equal parts of Vodka, Gin , Rum , Tequila and Triple Sec plus some Cola to give it a tea like color. Robert 'Rosebud' Butt was the inventor and the drink became famous quickly. By mid 1980's the Long Island Iced Tea was a mainstay at many American bars.
For a powerful potable , the history of its invention is quite uneventful .
Long Island because it was invented in Long Island and Tea because of its color and hence the name , Long Island Iced Tea.
This drink is surely not for amateurs ! Cheers !!! :-)
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). A lemon slice is often added to enhance this resemblance. To some, the drink also shares a similar taste to tea. This has led to its frequent use in fiction as a method to get a teetotaler drunk.
However, evidence suggested that Long Island Iced Tea was first served in the late 1970s by Robert (Rosebud) Butt, a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn, in the Town of Babylon, Long Island, New York
It was invented in 1972 by a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn in the town Babylon, Long Island, New York. The bartenders name is Robert (Rosebud) Butt.