Spritzer (1938)

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Eliot Spitzer is running for NYS governor, replacing the ailing George  
Pataki.
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What does the OED or anyone have on "spritzer"?
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Spritzer
“Spritzer” is a “splash,” from the German word. It is usually a mixture of  
wine and soda water, but the word can be used for other drink combinations. 
It was popular among the German New Yorkers, and may have been either  
invented or popularized in the Yorkville section of Manhattan in the early  1900s.
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(Oxford English Dictionary)  
spritzer
Chiefly N. Amer.
[a. G. spritzer a splash.]  
A mixture of wine and soda water; a drink of this mixture.  
1961 in WEBSTER. 1964 Vogue Apr. 71/1 Drink Spritzer (dry white wine  and 
soda). 1972 G. BAXT Burning Sappho iii. 50 Flo’s [drink] was a white  wine 
spritzer.
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13 February 1938, New York Times,  “Notes and Reflections on the Night Clubs”
 by Jack Gould, pg.  156:
ADVENTUROUS souls who mourn the demise of the speakeasy and the crafty  
devices which often distinguished its existence might refresh their memories by  a 
visit to the cellar and second-floor joints up Yorkville way. Operating  
without benefit of liquor license and justifying a restaurant license by  employing 
nimble-footed individuals who scurry to neighboring delicatessen or  coffee 
put to fill an order, these places, of which there are about thirty in  the 
area bounded by First and Third Avenues and Seventy-ninth and Ninetieth  Streets, 
retain much of the flavor of yesterday’s peephole establishments. They  are 
not to be confused, naturally, with Yorkville’s numerous legitimate  places. 
The advertised drink is a “spritzer,” consisting of apple cider and seltzer, 
 which retails for 15 or 25 cents a drink and wholesales at about 2 cents a  
drink. 
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26 December 1939, Tavern Weekly News, Patrick  Murphy bartender column, pg. 
8, cols. 1-4:
(Wine & Soda, Hock & Soda,  and Spritzer—ed.)
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10 August 1943, New York Times, pg. 4  ad:
“SPRITZER”
One of the most delightful of summer drinks is  “spritzer”—half well-chilled 
white wine, two cubes of ice, and sodas to fill.  Essential, however, to full 
enjoyment of this beverage is the type and quality  of the wine in it. 
Inglenook Traminer and Riesling have been carefully selected  by us as having true 
Rhine wine quality as nearly as is approximated in America.  Excellent for “
spritzer”, Inglenook Traminer, Riesling and Navalie White are  also heartily 
recommended by us as medium-dry white table wines especially  useful in summer, 
and which are agreeably moderate in price. 
Bellows & Company, New York.
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25 June 1950, New York  Times, “Food” by Jane Nickerson, pg. 154:
FINALLY come the spritzer  and all the other long drinks to be made with 
wine. Rhine wine and sparkling  water, or, instead of verice, give the first.
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27 May 1956, New  York Times, pg. 217:
Knowing a long drink may give the illusion of  two, dieters may decide on a 
spritzer—chilled wine and soda  water.
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10 January 1959, Chicago Defender, pg. 16:
On  the drinking side, remember that most cocktails run-over with calories. 
Dry red  or white wine, mixed with soda water as a “spritzer” will last a long 
sipping  time without supplying too many calories.
(“New York” is the dateline of this  story—ed.)

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