Maybe Brand Four could be tinkered with and made acceptable. It’s not too sweet, and I can taste the tequila. Signe Not a bad whiff - it actually smells like a margarita. Maybe it would help to add some lime and ice …? ★½ There seems to be lemon in here, not lime. Brand Four is a little closer to what we’re looking for I can taste the tequila. ★★★ħ50 mL, $15.95, available in Ontario at the LCBO, At least there’s something to taste in Brand Three. I think they use bottom-of-the-barrel alcohol for these drinks. What’s with the strange stevia aftertaste? ★Ĭhristine Brand Three is the best so far, but that’s not saying much. There is alcohol in there it tastes horrible, but the booze comes through. Signe Brand Two has an icky yellow colour, and it smells like Crystal Light. Like the previous two products, I’m finding an artificial smell. Jais It’s very sweet, and very boozy I think, but it doesn’t really taste like tequila. The margarita from the green lagoon! 0ħ50 mL, $15.95, available in Ontario at the LCBO, Anyone who worked in a bar in the ’80s would remember the deadly stuff - you’d open it and this big cloud of powder would escape and you’d have to be careful not to breathe it in. ½Ĭhristine Definitely tastes like retro bar mix. In addition to the plutonium green appearance and the fake lime flavour it’s got a weird saline aroma. Signe It’s glowing! Where’s the Geiger counter? Brand Two is absolutely awful. I would say that Brand Two reminds me of a cheap bar mix. There’s not enough lime, and then they’ve given it a crazy bright green colour. Jais I can taste the alcohol, but after that it’s very artificial. ★Ĥ X 400 mL, $10.95, available in Ontario at the LCBO, Plop plop fizz fizz: Brand One reminds me of Alka Seltzer. This could be for your hangover breakfast. A true margarita should never be carbonated. Signe Yes, you can barely taste the alcohol - do you know how dangerous this kind of kiddie pop-type product is for a 17-year-old? Brand One is like fizzy artificial pop. I have a 17-year-old daughter, and I wonder about young people quickly going through these … ★ Brand One is for people who don’t like the real thing. There must be some alcohol in here, but I don’t taste much. Jais It’s a very light colour, like lemonade, and carbonated, with a terrible chemical smell. Still another variant cites Rita Hayworth as the muse in question.Ĥ X 354 mL, $9.95, available in Ontario at the LCBO, Head barkeep Santos Cruz wanted to mix something special for singer Peggy Lee, hence “margarita,” the Spanish version of her name. Alternatively, the margarita was conceived at the Balinese Room in Galveston, Texas, in 1948. Another version proposes that the drink was born a few years earlier, as a tribute to a showgirl friend of bartender Carlos “Danny” Herrera, who worked at the Rancho La Gloria Hotel near Rosarito. The first person to taste the concoction was a daughter of a dignitary, Margarita Henkel, and the drink was named after her. Bartender Don Carlos Orozco created a mixture of equal parts tequila, orange liqueur and lime, and served it over ice in a salt-rimmed glass. According to the most popular story, the eponymous drink was invented in Ensenada, Mexico, in 1941, in Hussong’s Cantina. There are at least four creation myths surrounding the margarita cocktail. History records suggest that it happened down Mexico way, but after that events remain unclear. Join the conversation Wayne Cuddington/Postmedia File Photo Article content
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