Legend has it that the Cocktail was founded in the Florence Inn. The founder was Betsy Flanagan. They base their suspicion on the following story. In the early 1700’s Betsy Flanagan owned and operated a tavern that stood where the Florence used to stand, one of the patrons of the tavern was an English Major who suspected that Betsy had been taking some of the cocks that he had bred as a hobby. (Betsy, being very Irish and very patriotic, was not above such a thing.) One evening, while the Major was toasting the health of his sovereign majesty King George III, Betsy gathered a small group of friends into a back room. Into each glass she poured the best of her whiskey, and into each glass she placed a tail feather of one of the Major’s priceless birds. A Frenchman who was with the group pointed at the glasses and said, Zaire, mes comrades, vive le cock-tail.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:55:31 +0000
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