Message 25780 of 39188 in General Discussion

Share on Facebook |  Save to del.icio.us

I am still looking on the American Dialect Website for other references etc, 
and I have found some more. Though they are anecdotal in nature.


"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.


NEW YORK TIMES, Long Island section 11, pg. 33, col. 1, 21 November 1982, in a 
restaurant review of Remsen's Garden Restaurant, 950 Wheatley Plaza, 
Greenvale:  

"Long Island iced tea is the innocent name given an excellent and strong 
tea-based rum punch."


-----

"This is merely hearsay, but in my younger days I was a bartender for a
while, in western Massachustts, near Univ of Mass.  I recall that about
1979 or 1980 the drink was said to be the newest, coolest thing to order.
It did have the rep for being VERY strong.

I would expect that cites much before 1980 are rare or nonexistent." - Frank


Cheers!

George S.

Don't forget to visit the Webtender Wiki:

http://wiki.webtender.com/wiki/Home