Today is National Margarita Day! The Jersey Shore locals love their margaritas. There are a few places I enjoy an ice cold refreshing margarita. I used to be a bartender so I’ve made my share of margaritas. The bartender is your friend and wants you to have a positive experience at their place of employment. They want you to come back.
If I’m going out to commemorate this fine day, I will choose from one of the places on the list below.
Why? Because these places have proven to thousands and thousands of patrons that they are masters of their craft, especially while creating the most common tequila based drink in all of the United States.
According to checkiday.com, National Margarita Day was created by Todd McCalla in the late 2000s because he was sick of high fructose corn syrup and all the other chemicals that were being used to make low-quality commercial margarita mixes.
He later said that the day takes place when it does because February is a “sad, gray time of year for people and it’d be worth brightening it up with a margarita.” McCalla not only started National Margarita Day, but National Drink Wine Day as well, which is held four days prior.
We thank Todd McCalla for brightening up our grey skies on a gloomy February afternoon.
The typical Margarita is made with your favorite tequila, triple sec (I prefer Cointreau), and fresh lime juice. If you’re a fan of a salted rim, you wet the rim of the glass with the lime juice and dip the rim onto a plate filled with coarse salt.
I’m a Margarita on the rocks kind of girl, but feel free to have your favorite bartender blend yours with a bunch of ice and serve it up frozen.
Who Invented the Margarita?
It’s hard to say. Several people have claimed to have invented the Margarita. One of the stories I found online traces the Margarita’s origin back to Tommy’s Bar in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 1942. According to a Texas Monthly article first published in 1974, the inventor of the Margarita was Francisco “Pancho” Morales, who was widely acknowledged as one of the best bartenders in Juarez before he immigrated to the United States. In the interview, Morales said he invented the drink on the fly when a customer asked him for a drink he didn’t know how to make. He mixed tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice—and the margarita was born.
Whoever invented the margarita, we appreciate you.
Let’s go on a journey to find the most sought after margaritas on the Jersey Shore.
