With an innocent-looking, yet boozy Shirley Temple Black, I can gently tone down those shrieks of bouncy castle delight, or steel myself for the twenty-seventh consecutive screening of Thomas the Tank Engine more or less unnoticed.Īt the next children's party I am obliged to attend, when the host or hostess asks me what I'm having, you know my answer's going to be: It is a drink that allows me to mix and mingle with the wee 'uns from time to time without having them point at my Manhattan and ask what's in it. The idea of the Shirley Temple Black is entirely upside down. The whole notion of kiddie cocktails centers around their ability to allow children to participate somewhat benignly in adult cocktail culture- preparing them in a sense for their futures as alcohol-swigging grown-ups to whom they look up, both physically and morally. Miss Pickford, if you didn't know, served as the hairstyle inspiration for Miss Temple. After all, they did send us the original America's Sweetheart, Mary Pickford. The Canadians love to add a splash of orange juice, and so do I- it just makes the thing that much more wholesome, which is something Canadians know all about. It is a non-alcoholic beverage made with ginger ale or some sort of lemon-lime soda, grenadine syrup, a garnish of maraschino cherries and a slice of orange. The original Shirley Temple drink was, as one rumor has it, created by a bartender at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu in the 1930's- a place Miss Temple visited with her family many times. The Shirley Temple is far-and-away the most popular "kiddie cocktail" in the world- fitting that it was named for the most popular child actor to have ever existed. If anyone has earned a good, stiff drink, it is she. Ambassador to both Ghana (Ford) and Czechoslovakia (Bush the Elder). And why not? Shirley Temple the mega-child star transitioned successfully into adulthood as Shirley Temple Black- wife, mother, representative to the United Nations General Assembly (Nixon), the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States (Carter), and U.S. I am a star-(expletive)er (never, mind you, in a literal sense). I know what you're thinking- I'm a star-(expletive)er. I decided then and there to forget all about Miss Withers and create an adult beverage in honor of the infinitely more famous Miss Temple. There is little pay-off in naming anything after a child who lived her early years in Miss Temple's enormous career shadow.Īnd, suddenly, there was the answer. Who even remembers Jane Withers anymore, except me, I mean? Should I just simply do a take-off of a Shirley Temple? Would I add bitters? Make it taller? I was frustrated. When I got home, I thought about what to make and came up blank.
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