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Arnold Palmer
Half iced tea, half lemonade — the golf legend's contribution to civilization.
How to order it: Fresh-brewed black tea, real lemonade. The 50/50 ratio is named after the man himself.
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The recipe
- 4 oz fresh-brewed black iced tea
- 4 oz real lemonade
- Build over lots of ice
- Tall glass; stir
- Lemon wheel
The story
Arnold Palmer drank his iced-tea-and-lemonade blend at home in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, long before it carried his name; by his own telling, the christening came at a Palm Springs restaurant in the 1960s, when a woman overheard the golfer order his usual and told the waitress, "I'll have that Palmer drink." Few athletes get a sandwich named after them; Palmer got an entire category. The drink suited the man — refreshing, unfussy, plainly American, equally at home at a country club or a gas station, especially after it became a canned-and-bottled empire. Order one anywhere in the United States and no explanation is ever required. That is immortality of a very particular, very drinkable kind.
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