
| Message 39158 of 39187 in General Discussion |
| 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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