DisputedNamed from the place
Long Island iced tea
noun · first attested 1970s
It contains no tea, and two different Long Islands claim it.
A cocktail of several white spirits topped with cola, which gives it the look of iced tea.
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- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- DisputedCompeting explanations remain live.
- Attested
- 1970s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Long Island
- In English
Long Island iced tea
The common account credits a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn on New York's Long Island around 1972. A rival claim places it in the Prohibition-era community of Long Island, Tennessee, where a very different mixture involving maple syrup is said to have been poured.
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