Long Island Iced Tea
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==History of the Long Island Iced Tea== | ==History of the Long Island Iced Tea== | ||
"For such a powerful potable, the Long Island Iced Tea has a fairly short and uneventful background. Sometime around 1976, a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn of Hampton Bays, Long Island, concocted a drink from equal parts vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec, plus some cola to give it a tealike color. Robert "Rosebud" Butt was the inventor, and his drink spread quickly. By the mid-1980s, the Long Island Iced Tea was a mainstay at many American bars." -anon, no citations/ or sources. | "For such a powerful potable, the Long Island Iced Tea has a fairly short and uneventful background. Sometime around 1976, a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn of Hampton Bays, Long Island, concocted a drink from equal parts vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec, plus some cola to give it a tealike color. Robert "Rosebud" Butt was the inventor, and his drink spread quickly. By the mid-1980s, the Long Island Iced Tea was a mainstay at many American bars." -anon, no citations/ or sources. | ||
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| + | "I definitely served L.I.I.T.'s (and drank them) in Houston in the summer of 1980. At our restaurant we called them Texas Iced Tea, but when identifying them to customers we said they were our version of L.I.I.T. Ours was actually served in one of them big ole plastic iced tea glasses with fluting 2/3rds of the way up the glass and a smooth finish the rest of the way. It must have | ||
| + | been a 20 oz. glass, with 10 ozs. of L.I.I.T. At lunch we had happy hour, 2 for 1. | ||
| + | People would order L.I.I.T. and get 2 of those monsters. I don't know how they managed to walk out of the place, much less go back to work." | ||
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| + | - Andrea Vine, 28 Jul 1999. | ||
Revision as of 15:28, 26 April 2006
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History of the Long Island Iced Tea
"For such a powerful potable, the Long Island Iced Tea has a fairly short and uneventful background. Sometime around 1976, a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn of Hampton Bays, Long Island, concocted a drink from equal parts vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec, plus some cola to give it a tealike color. Robert "Rosebud" Butt was the inventor, and his drink spread quickly. By the mid-1980s, the Long Island Iced Tea was a mainstay at many American bars." -anon, no citations/ or sources.
"I definitely served L.I.I.T.'s (and drank them) in Houston in the summer of 1980. At our restaurant we called them Texas Iced Tea, but when identifying them to customers we said they were our version of L.I.I.T. Ours was actually served in one of them big ole plastic iced tea glasses with fluting 2/3rds of the way up the glass and a smooth finish the rest of the way. It must have
been a 20 oz. glass, with 10 ozs. of L.I.I.T. At lunch we had happy hour, 2 for 1.
People would order L.I.I.T. and get 2 of those monsters. I don't know how they managed to walk out of the place, much less go back to work."
- Andrea Vine, 28 Jul 1999.
Long Island Controversy
Does it have Tequila in it? Isn't a Long Island with Tequila called a Texas Tea?
Common Recipes
Recipe#1: Gary Regan
- 1/2 ounce gin
- 1/2 ounce tequila
- 1/2 ounce vodka
- 1/2 ounce white rum
- 1/2 ounce Triple Sec
- 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 3 ounces cola
- 1 lemon wedge, for garnish
Pour all of the ingredients into an ice-filled collins glass. Add the garnish.
Recipe#2: Dale DeGroff
- 1/4 oz. Vodka
- 1/4 oz. Gin
- 1/4 oz. Rum
- 1/4 oz. Tequila
- 1/2 oz. Triple Sec
- 3/4 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
- 1/2 oz. Simple syrup
- Coca Cola
Combine all the ingredients except the Coca Cola and stir. Top with Coca Cola and serve and a collins glass. Garnish with a wedge of lemon.
