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Quotes About Julep

Open the whisky, Tom,' she ordered, 'and I'll make you a mint julep. Then you won't seem so stupid to yourself... Look at the mint!
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The notion originated with Daisy's suggestion that we hire five bath-rooms and take cold baths, and then assumed more tangible form as "a place to have a mint julep." Each of us said over and over that it was a "crazy idea."—we all talked at once to a baffled clerk and thought, or pretended to think, that we were being very funny...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America.
~ Jonathan Miles
The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.
~ Jonathan Miles
Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat.
~ Irvin S. Cobb