Shirley Temple (beverage)

Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple with lime garnish
Type	Mixed drink
Standard garnish	Maraschino cherry

A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink traditionally made with ginger ale, a splash of grenadine and garnished with a maraschino cherry.^[1][2][3][4] Modern Shirley Temple recipes may substitute lemon-lime soda or lemonade and sometimes orange juice in part, or in whole.^[5][6]

Shirley Temples are often served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails, as is the similar Roy Rogers.

The cocktail may have been invented by a bartender at Chasen's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, to serve then child actress Shirley Temple. However, other claims to its origin have been made.^[7][8]

Temple herself was not a fan of the drink, as she told Scott Simon in an NPR interview in 1986: "The saccharine sweet, icky drink? Yes, well... those were created in the probably middle 1930s by The Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood and I had nothing to do with it. But, all over the world, I am served that. People think it's funny. I hate them. Too sweet!" ^[9]

Adding an ounce and a half of vodka or rum produces a "Dirty Shirley".^[10]

Gallery

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  Traditional Shirley Temple served in tall glass minus cherry garnish
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  Shirley Temple (left) and a Cosmo (right)

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