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Why are drinks called cocktails?
A popular story from New Orleans has an apothecary by the name of Peychaud (of bitters fame) serving a mixed brandy drink in a French eggcup. Eventually the drink was named coquetier, the French term for an eggcup. Guests shortened the name to 'cocktay,' and eventually it became 'cocktail.
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