Margarita Glass, Mexican
Glass, Mexican Margarita
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Margaritaville!
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Legendary margarita inventor
Carlos Herrera, was known locally as the man who topped a tequila concoction with salt and called it a
margarita. The glasses that he served his concoction in were called margarita glass, Mexican glass,
Mexican Margarita, etc.
Herrera's relatives say he invented the drink at Rancho La Gloria, a restaurant he opened in 1935 at his
home south of Tijuana.
He told friends that it was sometime in 1938 or '39 that he decided to mix a jigger of white tequila with
lemon juice, shaved ice, triple sec and - the crowning touch - salt.
Local legend has it that one of his customers was a showgirl and sometime actress who called herself
Marjorie King. She was allergic to all hard liquor except tequila, and she didn't like to drink that straight.
That reputedly set Herrera to experimenting, and he named the result "margarita" after the actress, the
legend goes. Margarita glasses have always been popular as so has the drink. Try your favorite recipe in a
hand painted Mexican glass with your favorite Mexican Margarita
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Margarita Glass, Mexican Glass, Mexican
Margarita - In Margaritaville, the tequila
is flowing and special concoctions are
made with your own special recipes to go
into these large hand painted margarita
glasses. Create a design of your own.
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