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Dave RahardjaI read a post about the possibly awful origin of pink lemonade, and I immediately suspected it was an urban myth but…uh…it was actually credible?
There’s no reason to doubt that pink lemonade probably originated in the circus world in the late 1800s USA. But there are two origin stories that are credible.
The first, rather tame one, is that Henry E Allott dropped cinnamon candies into the lemonade supply in the circus he was working for and it became very popular.
The second, grosser one, is that Pete Conklin, brother of Harvey Conklin, the author of “The Ways of the Circus”, supposedly grabbed a tub of LAUNDRY WATER in which some other performer had washed her pink tights to make lemonade. The pink color was a hit.
Anyway, both stories seem kind of like the kind of tall tales you’d hear from circus folk, but they *were* documented in some form or another at the time the drink was invented, so…
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unusual-origins-pink-lemonade-180960145/
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