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Subject: Sex on the beach History
From: Galala
Posted: Sat Oct 8. 2016, 00:12 UTC
Hi, 
I'm doing a research on the cocktail "sex on the beach", and I've came across 
different answers to who/when it was invented.  one answer I came across a lot 
was - "
 
The earliest known invention of the cocktail and name dates back to 1987 in 
Florida, USA. A distributor had just begun to sell a new product, peach 
schnapps, in the autumn.
 With many tourists due for the spring holiday the distributor devised a 
contest that would pay the bar that sold the most peach schnapps a bonus of 
$1000 and the bartender that was responsible at that bar for the highest sales 
would receive $100.
 A young bartender named Ted, working at Confetti's Bar, mixed up a peach 
schnapps, vodka, orange juice and grenadine cocktail. When Ted began to sell 
the drink, he was asked what it was called. On the spot, Ted thought what the 
main reason was that people came to Florida for their Spring break – it was 
The Beach and Sex.
"Sex on the Beach!" he replied, and as the drink gained fame that spring, 
thousands of students returned home and asked their local bartenders for ‘Sex 
on the Beach.’

Then I found commercials for sex on the beach on different daily papers dated 
to 1986/5 
and on this blog I read that it was invented in 1984... 

does anyone has a more solid answer? with some evidence?

Thanks,
Gala 


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