A Shirley Temple is a non-alcoholic mixed drink made with 2 parts ginger ale, and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry. Nowadays, lemon-lime soda is occasionally substituted in part, or in whole, for ginger ale.
Shirley Temples are often served to children dining with adults in lieu of real cocktails, as is the similar Roy Rogers.
The cocktail may have been invented by a bartender at Chasen's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, in the 1930s to serve to the child actress Shirley Temple. Other claims to its origin, however, have been made.
Famous quotes containing the words shirley and/or temple:
“Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.”
—James Shirley (1596–1666)
“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)