If Mary Todd Lincoln had taken the bullet for Abe would she be a Bloody Mary?

Question

Just wondering the origin of the "Bloody Mary" drink.

Answer 1

Why is there no thumbs down for questions?

Anyway, the history is as follows:

The way the story is often told, Mary was the brainchild of Fernand “Pete” Petiot, an American bartender working at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris during the Roaring 20s. Bartenders regularly mix up all kinds of concoctions to keep their clientele interested: even the ones that enjoy popularity for a while drift into obscurity (whatever happened to the Side Car and the Sloe Gin Fizz?).

So, the story goes, it was pure luck, not strategic planning, when Petiot combined tomato juice and vodka. A colleague named it, and not after Rogers and Hammerstein—the drink preceded “South Pacific” by more than 30 years. Nor was it named after Mary, Queen of Scots. According to research by McIlhenny Company, makers of Tabasco brand pepper sauce, an essential Bloody Mary ingredient, Petiot said that “one of the boys suggested we call the drink ‘Bloody Mary’ because it reminded him of the Bucket of Blood Club in Chicago, and a girl there named Mary.”

In 1934 Petiot took a job at the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City (ultimately becoming head barman). In the 1940s, he introduced the Bloody Mary there. The hotel tried to change the name to Red Snapper, but it didn’t have the same snap. But while they like the name, New Yorkers found the cocktail a bit bland, and encouraged Petiot to add some seasoning. He chose black pepper, cayenne pepper, Worcestershire sauce, lemon, and, for patrons who liked it spicy, Tabasco sauce, largely reformulating the Bloody Mary we know and love. When the drink became a national sensation in the 1950s, Petiot claimed he had invented it while working at Harry’s New York Bar in the 1920s.

The Updated Story Of The Bloody Mary: More recent research has updated this story. Eric Felten reporting for The Wall Street Journal* comes up with a more accurate version. Barry Popick, a consulting editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, did some sleuthing that found earlier references crediting the origin of the Bloody Mary to comedian, songwriter and movie producer George Jessel, the “Toastmaster General of the United States.” In the 1950s he even appeared in Smirnoff vodka ads declaring himself the inventor, and wrote the story of how he invented it in his 1975 autobiography (to clear his head after a night of drinking). Since Jessel was also a famous self-promoter, many doubted the claim; but Popick found this 1939 mention in Lucius Beebe’s New York Herald Tribune column: “George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.”

Answer 2

Mary Mary Quite Contrary would you care for a Bloody Mary with your Mary Brown's Fried Chicken?

Answer 3

no bloody mary was a real person...she killed alot of people and then she was killed....