How did cocktail get its name ?!
How did cocktail get its name ?
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'cause they make you act like a dog... either chasing your own tail... or getting your rooster licked....
Yuh, huh, an' cockpit, too!
That's one of those words whose origin is generally unknown, although there might be some connection to the older "cocktail" definition which referred to horses. It's never been proven though.
Tom Cruise thought that would be a good name for his movie.
A cocktail is a style of mixed drink. However, not all mixed drinks are cocktails. A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings and one or more liqueurs, fruit juices, sauces, honey,milk, cream or spices, etc. The cocktail became popular after Prohibition in the United States. During Prohibition the art of drink mixing drinks became more and more important to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol. The bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other ingredients, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. After the repeal of Prohibition, the skills developed in illegal bars became widespread and heralded the golden era of the cocktail, the 1930's. One of the oldest known cocktails, the Cognac-based Sazerac, dates from 1850s New Orleans, as many as 70 years prior to the Prohibition era.
Until the 1970s, cocktails were made predominantly with gin, whiskey or rum, and less commonly vodka. From the 1970s on, the popularity of vodka increased dramatically. By the 1980s it was the predominant base for mixed drinks. Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
There are too many theories to list, but they're all discussed at the link below and some of them are pretty funny.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcoc...
I don’t know about the truth in this but I read a story some place that a pub owner started making mixed drinks. He was so proud of his drink that he served it with a feather from a cocks tail?
I don’t know the source, but it is a good story.
Cocktail Parties.
It is believed that the term "cocktail" was first used in the village of Elmsford in Weschester County, New York after a local bar ran out of stirrers and resorted to use a ****'s tail feathers to stir the drink.
well it goes way back to when a young lad drank his first alcoholic beverage and got horney and got the best piece of *** from the neighbors rooster....yeah that