Θεωρίες και Μύθοι για την προέλευση της "Margarita"

1. Danny Negrete, a Los Angeles bartender, created the drink in 1936 for his girlfriend, Margarita. It seems that this particular girl was addicted to salt, so Danny invented a drink with salt on the rim.

2. It was invented in 1936 by Danny Negrete, the manager of the Crespo Hotel in Puebla, Mexico. He named the cocktail after his girlfriend, Margarita, who always liked to take a dab of salt with her drinks.

3. Texas socialite Margarita Sames from Dallas created the drink to serve at one of the frequent cocktail parties. Margarita and William Sames were entertaining guests at their Acapulco vacation home over the Christmas
holiday of 1948 when Mrs. Sames began experimenting with cocktails containing her two favourite spirits, tequila and Cointreau. This amateur mixologist noticed that her concoction, referred to simply as "the drink," kept her Christmas guests in a perpetually festive mood. Once Mrs. Sames had perfected the definitive euphoric recipe (two parts tequila, one part Cointreau, one part fresh lime juice), it was dubbed the "margarita" by Mr. Sames in honour of his wife. One of the Sames’ houseguests that year happened to be Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, heir to the Hilton hotel chain and owner of the Tail of the Cock restaurant in Los Angeles. which may explain how the drink spread north of the border.

4. Sara Morales, a Mexican folklore expert, says that Doña Bertha created the drink, she was the owner-bartender of Bertha's Bar in Taxco, Mexico.

5. Red Hinton, a bartender in Virginia City named it after his girlfriend, Margarita Mendez, who hit someone over the head with a whiskey bottle and died in the crossfire that pursued.

6. In the early 1930's, an anonymous bartender created it at the Caliente Race Track in Tijuana.

7. Sometime in the 1940's, Enrique Bastante Gutierez created this drink for Rita Hayworth, whose real name was Margarita.

8. In 1948 Santos Cruz created it for singer Peggy Lee.

in Galveston, Texas.

9. In 1938 or 1939, Carlos Hererra invented this drink for Marjorie King, who apparently couldn't drink any hard liquor except Tequila without getting sick.

10. The Margarita, was first concocted in 1938 by Danny Herrera, bartender at the Rancho La Gloria bar in Tijuana for aspiring actress Marjorie King. The starlet claimed to be allergic to all liquors except tequila, so Herrera used it to create a new drink for Marjorie and gave it her Spanish name, Margarita.

11. On the 4th of July, in 1942 in Tommy's Bar in Ciudad Juarez, a nightspot popular with American soldiers from across the Texas state line. A customer asked Francisco "Pancho" Morales a bartender at Tommy’s, for a "Magnolia",he couldn't remember exactly how to make it, so he made something up, and named it not after a wife or girlfriend, but after a flower the "Daisy", which translates to Margarita in Spanish.

12. In the early 1950's It was created at the "Tail o' the Cock" restaurant in Los Angeles in order to find a way to introduce Jose Cuervo tequila into the market.

13. An anonymous post-World War II bartender at Los Angeles’ Tail o’ the Cock restaurant on La Cienega Boulevard created it. Legend has it that Vernon Underwood, head of the beverage company that held the distribution rights to the Jose Cuervo tequila brand, suddenly noticed a jump in the sales of Jose Cuervo. The normal trickle of tequila out of his warehouse had turned into a geyser. Underwood quickly tracked the sales spike to one of his accounts, the Tail o’ the Cock, where the barman recently had invented a wildly popular new drink consisting of Jose Cuervo tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice. The bartender named the drink after his wife Margaret, translated into Spanish as Margarita.

14. Bartender, Don Carlos Orozco, supposedly invented it at Hussong's Cantina, a famous bar in Ensenada, south of Tijuana, back in October 1941. He concocted the drink of equal parts tequila, Damiana (Controy a Mexican variant of Contreau is used now) and lime, served it over ice in a salt-rimmed glass. He named it after a lady he wanted to impress, Señorita Margarita Henkel, daughter of the German Ambassador to Mexico.

15. The Margarita was created in Palm Springs, California, where Hollywood types used to gather in the late 1940s for a little RR&T (Rest, Relaxation, and Tequila). These guys took their tequila by the shot in the classic fashion, with a squeeze of lime and a lick of salt, but their wives insisted upon something more sophisticated. Someone got the idea of mixing the tequila and the limejuice, then adding orange liqueur for a dash of sweetness. The salt component was relegated to the rim of the glass, saving the ladies the embarrassment of slurping it off the back of their hands. This is a neat story, but it fails to explain just who "Margarita" was.

16. Some say the margarita was invented in Palm Springs in the 1940s because the fancy pants boys visiting from Hollywood were not macho enough to deal with sipping tequila straight, although they pretended to enjoy it. Rumor has it they paid off a local bartender to create some sort of fruity, citrus drink mix that would take the edge off — and then act as if he made it up for the ladies because they couldn't handle the sting of straight tequila. Later that night, the anonymous bartender was sly enough to steal away with one of the Hollywood starlets after her drunken suitors passed out. The bartender and his new lady friend enjoyed the rest of the evening in her room so much that the bartender promised to name his new drink in her honour. He called it the "Margarita," which translates to "mechanical sex fiend" in Spanish.