long island iced tea

A Long Island Iced Tea is a cocktail made with, among other ingredients, vodka, gin, and rum. A popular variation mixes vodka, gin, rum, tequila, triple sec, and sweetened lime juice with Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or a similar soda. Like most cocktails it came about in the Prohibition era, the name suggesting a non-alcoholic drink (iced tea). This has led to its frequent use in fiction as a method to get a teetotaler drunk. Variations of this drink include:

Alaskan Iced Tea
Electric Iced Tea
California Iced Tea - made with Lemonade and Blue Curacao instead of Coke.
Beverly Hills Iced Tea - made with Champagne instead of Coke.
Baptist Redemption, a Long Island Iced Tea without Coke.

Long Island is just east of New York City. During Prohibition it was a frequent point of entry for the clandestine importation of alcoholic beverages.

Long Island Iced Tea

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