Talk:Shirley Temple cocktail

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This article lists the version made with lemon-lime soda as the default or "standard" Shirley Temple, but most recipes I have seen use ginger ale as the base and list lemon-lime soda as a variant. Does anyone know which version is more common? If it is ginger ale, the article should be changed to reflect that. Sara 17:16, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Well, maybe it's a regional thing, but everyone I asked said a Shirley Temple was "Seven-Up and Grenadine". I did a web search when I was working on this article and the results overwhelmingly gave the version I listed as standard. I found some mention of ginger ale, but mostly in the context of the "Ginger-ale and OJ with Grenadine" version. -- Logotu 18:21, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I only know what I've read on webtender.com, drinksmixer.com, and a few similar sites whose names I can't remember -- their recipes universally use ginger ale, and list the version with lemon-lime soda under the name "Kiddie Cocktail" (which is a fairly awful name, IMO). Actually, I was a little surprised when I first saw this (I know for a fact that the Shirley Temples they served when I was a kid were made with 7-Up), but since there seemed to be a consensus I figured ginger ale was the standard.

Perhaps the information in these web guides is derived from a common, and in this instance erroneous, source -- that seems to me the most plausible explanation for how so many of the sites could share information that is at variance with how the drink is usually made. Sara 22:42, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Place of invention

This article claims that the Temple cocktail was invented "by a bartender at Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills, CA." Shirley Temple claims the cocktail was invented "at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki, Hawaii, where she often stayed." Which one is it? 64.40.61.191 03:10, 28 May 2006 (UTC)