The Purple Rain refers to at least two popular mixed drinks. The more common is a variation on the highball Long Island Iced Tea, substituting Chambord for Triple Sec and a Lemon-Lime soda for the cola. The other is a long cocktail made from vodka, lemonade, blue curacao and grenadine. The name of this version originates from the appearance of the drink as the grenadine is added as the final ingredient, since the sinking of the red grenadine through the blue of the other ingredients creates the impression of purple rain. This drink has many various versions depending on the location where the drink is made.
Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or rain:
“They turn’d to rest; and, each clasp’d by an arm,
Yielded to the deep twilight’s purple charm.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Too much rain is not good,
nor too much sun.
Too much talking is not good,
nor too much silence.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.