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<\/p>\nNothing gets the party started quite like having a cocktail.<\/p>\n
They're fun, fruity and boozy and always go down a treat when you're hitting the town.<\/p>\n
But some of our favourite alcoholic beverages have quite bold names \u2013 and there are surprising reasons why.<\/p>\n
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Each year, Brits enjoy an eye-watering \u00a3604m worth of cocktails, but the meaning behind them is not often well-known. <\/p>\n
From the porn star martini to the zombie, certain cocktails have names which are rather unusual. <\/p>\n
Ready-made cocktails brand, The Cocktail Co, revealed the real meanings behind the names of some of the nation\u2019s favourite cocktails \u2013 and some are really random. <\/p>\n
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<\/b><\/p>\nPorn star martini<\/h3>\n
The somewhat scandalously-named porn star martini originally found its way into the cocktail scene in 2002 by Douglas Ankrah \u2013 who admits it was actually an accident.<\/p>\n
Inspired by a visit to Mavericks Revue Bar Gentlemen's Club in Cape Town, the cocktail was created as "a stylish and confident drink…[that's]… pure indulgence, sexy, fun and evocative".<\/p>\n
Douglas named it a porn star martini because he felt it was "something that a porn star would drink".<\/p>\n
It was created to push consumers out of their comfort zones, and it did just that, as it's now the second most popular cocktail in the UK.<\/p>\n
There are a number of different tales on how the cosmopolitan came to be, but perhaps the most famous one is that a bartender called Neal Murray created the cocktail in 1975, when he added cranberry juice to a Kamikaze cocktail.<\/p>\n
The first drinker to try the cocktail declared "how cosmopolitan" upon trying it \u2013 giving it its namesake.<\/p>\n
Created in London in 1984, the bramble has been a staple to many bars and cocktail lovers for nearly forty years.<\/p>\n
Originally developed by bartender Dick Brasell in "Fred\u2019s Club", Soho, the drink was inspired by nostalgic childhood experiences on the Isle of Wight, such as blackberry picking. <\/p>\n
The cocktail famously takes its name after bramble bushes on which the fruits grow.<\/p>\n
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The zombie cocktail was created by Donn Beach when he opened America's first tiki bar in Hollywood following the end of the Prohibition in 1933.<\/p>\n
The story is that Donn concocted the zombie to help one of his regular customers overcome a hangover before going to a business meeting. <\/p>\n
Several days later the customer returned frustrated and told Donn the cocktail had made him feel "like the living dead, it made a zombie out of me" \u2013 inspiring the cocktail\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, Donn\u2019s customers were then limited to how many of these drinks they could order, due to the potency of them.<\/p>\n
Espresso martinis have become a true classic. <\/p>\n
Originally called a Vodka Espresso in the 80s due to its two main ingredients, this iconic beverage was initially made by bartender, Dick Bradsell, after a request from a customer for a drink that would both "wake me up and f*** me up".<\/p>\n
It was changed in the 1990s to suit the martini-drinking crowd of the time, and so the Espresso Martini was born.<\/p>\n
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