Pink Lady (cocktail) need to mask the gin's bad taste. At the latest in the 1930s the Pink Lady started to acquire the image of a typical "female" or "girly" drink due to its name and sweet creamy flavor usually associated with a woman's taste in publications like "Esquire's" "Handbook for Hosts" (1949). It is said of the Hollywood star and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, that she used to drink a Pink Lady before a meal. Subsequently, the cocktail fell out of favour with male cocktail critics, who were put off by its alleged "female" nature. The writer and bartender Jack Townsend speculated
Tert-Butyl alcohol Tert-Butyl alcohol tert"-Butyl alcohol (TBA), also called tert"-butanol or "t"-butanol, is the simplest tertiary alcohol, with a formula of (CH)COH (sometimes represented as "t"-BuOH). It is one of the four isomers of butanol. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is a colorless solid, which melts near room temperature and has a camphor-like odor. It is miscible with water, ethanol and diethyl ether. "tert"-Butyl alcohol has been identified in beer and chickpeas. It is also found in cassava which is used as fermentation ingredient in certain alcoholic beverages. "tert"-Butyl alcohol is derived commercially from isobutane as a coproduct of propylene oxide production. It can also