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gin rickey. Rickeys can be made of any liquor, carbonated water, and lime juice, but the most famous drink in the family is the gin rickey, invented in about 1895 and named after “a dis- tinguished Washington guzzler of the period,” according to H. L. Mencken. Just which Washington Colonel Rickey was so honored is a matter of dispute, however. Several theories have been recorded by Mencken in his American Language, Supple- ment 1, and other sources, but none is generally accepted. |