Butt states on his website's home page: "The world famous Long Island Iced Tea was first invented in 1972 by me, Robert Butt, while I was tending bar at the infamous Oak Beach Inn. I participated in a cocktail creating contest. Triple Sec had to be included, and the bottles started flying. My concoction was an immediate hit and quickly became the house drink at the Oak Beach Inn. By the mid-1970s, every bar on Long Island was serving up this innocent-looking cocktail, and by the 1980s it was known the world over." ALSO READ: Best Mumbai Restaurants with Happy Hours

Another version of the origin of LIIT, as mentioned on Butt's website says that the drink was invented by housewives, who would mix a little bit of each of the five drinks from their husbands' liquor cabinet, so that they wouldn't notice. There seems to be fragments of truth in each account. The Old Man's account makes sense since the sneaky name, the deceitful appearance and the whole lot of booze in one drink, would have suited the needs of the Prohibition era. But naysayers say that no one would have openly claimed to have invented an alcoholic drink during the strict Prohibition times. ALSO READ: Top 10 strongest Alcoholic Drinks of the World: From Absinthe to Everclear and beyond!

So who really invented this duplicitous drink called the Long Island Iced Tea? Everyone finds merit with each account and dismisses the others. Well, there's at least one thing about the Long Island Iced Tea that everyone agrees on - that it's an excellent cocktail to blame all your drunk misdemeanors on. So drink on!

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