> > Does anybody know how the drink Margarita got its name. Where was
> >
> > the Margarita invented and when?
>
> There are a lot of stories on that one. I know of about five
> different stories I've heard about the beginning of the margarita.
> But this is the only one I can think of right now.
>
> Margarita Sames mixed it first. Her two favorite spirits were
> Cointreau and Tequila, so she mixed them together. This all happened
> in 1948. Supposedly it got its name from the fact that her husband
> served it to her in a glass with her name etched into it.
>
> Actually, one of the other ones is that it was first mixed at
> Bertita's bar in Mexico. That was supposedly around the 1930s.
>
> David
i heard the margarita sames story is utter bullshit...something about some
rich man's wife who took credit for a drink that was invented 15 years before
at a bar in mexico.
according to a lot of stories, a 20 year old bartender at bertita's was asked
to make a drink he never heard of, so he just added tequilla, cointreau and
lime juice on the rocks, and everyone loved it. bertita's doesn't advertise
that they started the drink, and the creator later became a mailman and died
at the age of 89 with 34 grandkids or some crap, and never bragged about it.
personally i'm siding with the mexican mailman over some rich bitch from l.a.