Wikipedia:Picture of the day/March 19, 2006
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A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually containing one or more distilled alcoholic beverages and in addition sometimes containing non-alcoholic drinks, ice and sometimes liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, or spices. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States; to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol, the bartenders at a speakeasy would mix it with other liquors and non-alcoholic drinks. Photo credit: Nik Frey |