Bloody Mary (cocktail)

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A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and usually other spices or flavorings such as Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, beef consomme or bouillon, horseradish, celery or celery salt, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and lemon juice. The epithet "Bloody Mary" is associated with a number of historical and fictional women, most notably Queen Mary I of England (see Bloody Mary (person) for others); however, there is no known connection between the name of the cocktail and any of these people. The name is clearly used to refer to the blood-like colour of the cocktail.

The order of preparation can be crucial, and many bartenders guard secret recipes for the drink.^{[citation needed]} It is sometimes garnished with a celery stick and is served in a tall glass, often over ice. It is one of the few cocktails traditionally served in the morning, along with the Screwdriver and the Mimosa.

Bartender Fernand Petiot of Harry's New York Bar in Paris claimed to have invented the drink in 1920. The first citation of "Bloody Mary" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from Punch (August 15, 1956): "Those two … are eating raw steaks and drinking Bloody Marys."

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If the drink is served without the vodka, it is called "Virgin Mary," a "Bloody Shame," or a "Bloody Virgin."
When tequila is used instead of vodka, it is known as a "Bloody Maria".
When whiskey is used instead of vodka, it is known as a "Brown Mary" or a "Whiskey Mary".
When rum (typically Captain Morgan) is used instead of vodka, it is known as a "Bloody Morgan".
When sake is used instead of vodka, it is known as a "Bloody Geisha".
When beer is used instead of vodka and Clamato (a juice made of clam broth and tomato juice) mixed with a raw egg is used in place of the tomato juice, it is known as a Calgary Red Eye, a popular Canadian hangover remedy.
When Mexican beer flavored with a couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco sauce is used instead of vodka, it is known as a "Michelada".
When beef bouillon is used instead of tomato juice, it is known as a "Bullshot".
When Clamato is used instead of tomato juice, it is known as a "Caesar", "Bloody Caesar", or "Clammy Mary," a popular Canadian cocktail.
When V8 is used instead of the tomato juice - or a mixture (usually half of each) of V8 and tomato juice - it is called a "Bloody Eight" or an "Eight Ball".
When an exceptionally hot pepper, such as the Red Savina is added to the drink, it is sometimes known as a "Screaming Emo". A sans-alcohol version is known as a "Virgin Emo".
The "Mile High Mary", popularized in restaurant chains originating in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States, has its glass rimmed with a mixture of salt and paprika.