Who invented iced tea and lemonade

The legendary golfer, who died at 87 on Sunday night, won 95 tournaments and seven major titles while popularizing the game as the first major star of the television era. For many others, he is remembered as the guy who lent his name to a refreshing mix of iced tea and lemonade. All it took for the "Arnold Palmer" to be born was a simple request from the golfer to his wife, Winnie, on a hot day at their home in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

He spoke about its origins in an ESPN: 30 for 30 digital short in I thought, 'Boy, this is great, babe. And while many likely have their own formula for the proper lemonade-iced tea mix, Palmer is clear on how to do it the right way.

Obviously, it wasn't called an Arnold Palmer at first. So, just how did the Arnold Palmer come to be? The tale began at home when Palmer's wife, Winnie, made a batch of iced tea, and the golfing legend suggested she add some lemonade. Some years later, after tinkering with the iced tea-lemonade mixture at home, Palmer ordered the drink in a Palm Springs, California, restaurant.

Multiple news stories relate that another patron overhead Palmer's order, ordered her own and the rest, as they say, is history.

After a hot day on the course at Latrobe Country Club, he would ask his wife Winnie to make him an iced tea with lemonade. Word of the drink allegedly spread through Arnie's Army — the nickname for Palmer's fan club, which originated when servicemen joined his gallery in the early years of The Masters — and became a regular offering at golf courses and country clubs around the nation before breaking into the mainstream in the early s.

Palmer began bottling it in and ultimately struck a deal with AriZona Beverage Company. Thanks for the read! Sweet iced tea in the American South tends to be a regional item. Sweetened iced tea was the norm when I lived in Georgia. BTW I really enjoyed your website on iced tea! Interesting — I had to look this up. THAT is what was on the menu and that is what one ordered. THEN the consumer could sweeten it to their taste.

Definitely not just a millennial thing. We had sweet tea before I was born in SC. My grandmother would call it the table wine of the south. It IS a Millenial thing outside of the Confederate Seaboard States……green tea was not known of and not used after WW2 except in oriental cuisine, especially in the states outside of Califonia. Green tea did not return until the 21st century when every health food nerd decided to hack every known tea available to mankind for new sources of American profit.

I grew up in Texas where iced tea with lemon was on every table at every meal except breakfast. I made iced tea for my father daily. I grew up drinking it instead of soda, instead of energy drinks, never out of plastic bottles. My grandmother taught me how to make sweet tea. Anyway they bought about acres in northern Alabama and my grandmother remembers her grandmother making sweet tea but since they had no power it was a luxury drink only served when they could get some ice.

Still she remembered the sugar was always stirred in while the tea was hot. It is normally made with the idea that ice will melt in it though so you have to make the tea slightly stronger and sweeter because the ice will melt. I also know that we did used to make sweet tea every day when I was a kid to be served with dinner at least, it goes good with everything.

Ice tea was served at family gatherings Easter, Thanksgiving etc or sometimes my mom made it during the summer… but it was not a daily thing, though I had friends that always had a pitcher in their fridge. The server brought me a big bunch of sweet and low packets for my tea. She evidently thought I was either watching my weight or a diabetic and seemed shocked when I drank my tea black.

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