Shirley Temple (The Drink) History

0:00 um so let's talk about what the greatest drink ever created it kind of is what is a shirley temple well it's not that simple what do you think you start with what in your opinion what do you start with of a shirley temple cherries okay other than that like what is the liquid you know i don't even know it's like seltzer water well most of us use sprite or 7up which in itself is a debate but if we're going strictly traditional gotta use ginger ale ginger ale really i don't think i've had that but that sounds great and then you add your grenadine which again guess what flavor grenadine is because i never knew this grenades it's more flavored more flavored it tastes like vietnamese flavor what do you think grenadine is the syrup that red syrup i actually have no idea grenadine which i always assumed was cherry flavored it's pomegranate flavored oh okay everyone

0:46 thinks it's cherry flavored because of the next addition to the drink a maraschino cherry on top everybody including me until about a week ago thought shirley temples were cherry flavored but they're actually not it's grenadine flavored and there's just the cherry on top very odd i never it's weird i have to rethink my entire life it just kind of tastes like red yeah but it's i always thought the same thing the way i think windex tastes like blue yeah i'm drinking a prime color right now i've tapped into a higher sense i have that disease where i can taste colors synesthesia yeah see that you could say we can't say simulacrum dare you so then there's the occasional addition of a slice of lime on top and in canada they apparently put orange juice in it all right well i can't have it then but well i'm out and for that reason i'm out but that that's the chili temple it was the original mock tale this was the

1:33 first one the shirley temple then there's the four boys version which i resent because i am i will always order shirley temple anywhere for boys i'm definitely not four boys in the trench coat um the four boys version is the roy rogers which is the same thing but they use coke instead of oh okay it's just like a cherry coke pretty much well a grenadine coat oh yeah i just taught you that but some people call that a shirley temple black which is funny okay that's their married name yeah and then of course there's the first thing i ordered at a bar when i turned 21 the dirty shirley which has vodka in it and ruins the entire thing in my opinion what's bad about adding rubbing alcohol right why would that be bad the sweetest thing you can imagine what's so wrong about adding the exact opposite taste i think you just need it made better more vodka but this still leads us to the real question

2:18 what is a shirley temple in brief shirley temple was born april 23rd 1928 right here in santa monica another like billy eilish he was the original billy he was the really billy eyelash more like it more funny the way she was a little his eyes a little girl at age three she started acting in her first movies a series unfortunately titled the baby burlesques okay and she had a natural talent for dancing so fox not the guy who made the orange bank the guy who blew up the bridge or whatever guy fox yeah picked her up probably literally and made nine movies with her and this was the height of the big old depression so this sweet innocent little optimistic girl dancing was just what the sad sac american public needed to see at the time look at her she's not starving to death we're doing fine yeah she's so plump and she became huge not physically it

3:06 was the depression her movies they were wildly popular she was making more money than the president who wasn't um fdr said as long as our country has shirley temple we will be all right oh my god she was like the original bitcoin she was like a currency at her own imagination i'm saying that about um like a child start as long as we have jonathan taylor thomas we'll be fine as long as we have finn wolfhard america will always pull through this her pinnacle came in 1934 when bright eyes where she sang the song that we all know from tv infomercials of cd box sets on the good ship slowly soda people loved this performance so much she was awarded a special oscar for outstanding personality that year you seem chipper you want an award for

3:52 it most chip anyways i'm halfway done screaming to judy garland about something you don't win this year here you go shirley um between 1935 to 38 she was the biggest thing in america behind eating sawdust by 1940 she had already been in 43 movies she was 12 years old i can't even do the math i mean like they shot a movie a day basically so they did she retired from acting in 1949 and went on to have a really impressive political and humanitarian career but we're not here to talk about that and we're we're talking about soda pop we're talking about little girls and soda pop why is there a drink named after her as the story goes it was shirley's 10th birthday and she was out to eat with her parents but she started complaining because her parents were drinking old fashions and bought by her their child's

4:38 success yeah on the back on the paper floor by this daughter's mangled feet from doing tap dancing and she didn't get to drink old fashions because she was 10. so the staff who would never work again if they made 10 year old shirley temple cry whipped up a non-alcoholic equivalent of an old fashioned out of things they had lying around ginger ale and granted incomplete with the cherry on top that is incredible that i never saw that those two things neither did i think i i i never put it together but it's so funny because i always associate like if you had put a shirley temple in a rock class like the way you usually get yeah yeah i'd be like are you too related now where exactly this happened will always be debated yeah the royal hawaiian hotel in honolulu claims they invented it because shirley would vacation there a lot with her

5:24 parents more locally some people say it was the pig and whistle oh okay uh one guy named smith smithy lowther claim okay first of all his name should be liar liar a liar liar l-y-r-e so he claimed he invented it at a restaurant in hollywood but he never said what restaurant that was the most widely accepted answer is one of two places most people believe that it was at chasen's which was at 90 39 beverly boulevard in west hollywood which is now at bristol farms okay of course what isn't a bristol farms in west hollywood but supposedly they still have part of the old restaurant preserved as part of their cafe oh wow but then there's the people who believe it was of course the brown derby which makes sense because they did drinks named after celebrities all the time and also shirley temple herself said it was invented there

6:10 uh so that might be the question i don't i don't know i think it's liar liar nick lyre or whatever we call them liar liar his uh maiden name is pants on fire it's on fire it's french it sounds more lyrical in french but in american it sounds like when he came to ellis island but here's the twist of lemon shirley temple hated the shirley temple you're kidding she hated the taste of them she said it's a saccharine sweet icky drink is she describing herself for the drink saccharine sweet icky drink i hate myself um and she said in later years all over the world i observed that people think it's funny i hate them too sweet she's sounding a little bit more like judy garland yeah she sounds like the little kid at the end of pee-wee's big

6:56 adventure when he's like on camera he's like oh anything mother margaret but off-camera's like why she showed up late every time that sounds like how dare they i wanted an old fashion one person tried to give her one once and she said if you drink that you're gonna get diabetes she hated the idea of her name being on what was essentially a cocktail for kids right call it that it's uh much better don't call it mocktails call it cocktails for kids kitty no don't call him that um never mind i take that back i take that back scratch that please on top of that she said she was not even there for the creation of this drink and the whole story like she was never served it as a kid she says that the brown derby just made it up and she had absolutely nothing to do with it here's what okay well for sure she wasn't in the pig and whistle when she was 10 years old no no way jonathan taylor thomas wouldn't

7:42 be let in there no we should really tempt and liar liar maclaire i think we can't trust him yeah so she says she she had nothing to do with it it just was made it's weird how i believe her because uh she's surely temple yeah the drink is called truly temple yeah she probably knows better and why would she lie why would she not like larson so shirley temple's going around putting animal crackers in her soup hating the shirley temple but decades later came someone who wasn't a child star bradley whiteman he was just a regular man from encino not an encino man who loved soda kind of like an encino man he decided to make his own soda company so he sold his sports car for thirty thousand dollars it's encino everyone has a sports car and he started making sodas and he'd sell them to delis and yogurt shops around encino and it eventually grew into a whole west

8:27 coast thing called sodapop kids but then in 1988 he decided to make a bottled version of the shirley temple but he didn't want to risk being sued so he called it the shirley t with the tagline the shirley temple soft drink okay it's not mickey mouse it's mickey m yeah the mickey mouse mouse the mickey mouse the michael mouse and then he got sued shirley temple the woman was very protective of what she would and wouldn't allow her name to be attached to she picked which toys which dolls which music boxes sorry i don't i hate to interrupt you yeah which toys or which toys she picked witches witches three meanings we're talking about all three meanings apply she curated thank you which toys which dolls which music boxes that her name was on throughout the years because she

9:14 was very careful about the shirley temple brand yes an image she said a celebrity's name and image is all a celebrity has so she wasn't going to let it just be slapped onto any lady one time she had to sue a carnival because they had an elephant named shirley temple and they were putting out signs to draw people in that said surely temple's in here you're kidding no no come see shirley temple we're kidding okay does that have like little locks did they put it like a little buster browns yeah i think they they cut off its ivory and turned it into locks it's a great bit you're making us 50 cents what a thing what what a thing to like the man-eating chicken from the little rascals to walk in this isn't this isn't the little girl i want to kidnap she knows where gold is buried i know it earlier in 1988 she even had to sue

9:59 shirley's temple inc which was a temple it was a jewish temple i'm not gonna say what she was but she was that it was in santa rosa they were trying to sell the original shirley temple soft drink and now she's suing weidman she hated this drink and she said him trying to do this exploited her name diluted her name's value and also invaded her privacy right he was all set to launch an ad campaign that had commercials of a cherry doing shirley temple's dance moves okay that he spent a hundred thousand dollars on and all that had to be put oh my god how many cars do you sell to do that um i totally side with her and the weird thing is like you're probably going to get to this i don't want to like jump the gun on it but like just call it something else well the drink is good enough to survive a name change this is we're getting into like a very heady and i'm not just

10:44 talking about when you pour a soda too fast this one's got a lot of froth so you'd think this would be a standard copyright infringement sort of thing but this trial took a really interesting philosophical turn his lawyers argued that the name shirley temple no longer belonged to shirley temple the girl the woman the name they believed that the drink had been around for so long attached to something the name shirley temple something so common in everyday life the shirley temple drink that the word shirley temple had at a certain point changed from being a proper noun to just being a noun wow shirley temple was now just part of the language and thus was part of the public domain this is what his lawyers were claiming to which she argued no it's my name yeah

11:30 i'm shirley temple and you're and you're stealing my name named after there had been a few other lawsuits that decided that sometimes brand names of things became so common that they just became the public domain name of those things like a thermos or cellophane band-aid band-aid kleenex but weidman's lawyers posed that this was the first time that a person's name had crossed over into meaning the same thing as the product named after that right there was the celebrity deli sandwich name defense right but shirley's lawyers said that if this guy wins it's gonna set a precedent for a day when clint eastwood would mean the same thing as pastrami right like i'm eating a clint eastwood sandwich and it's it's nationally understood yeah exactly uh go ahead make my sandwich uh you

12:15 think you're mustard punk i i i'm laughing for the effort just so you know so the whole thing turned into this samuel beckett play and in the end the lawsuit went in shirley temple's favor but that didn't stop the continuation of the legacy of the shirley temple drink and in the end weidman's lawyers were exactly right like the drink is still available almost anywhere because it's easy to make and none of the ingredients are perishable yeah so they're always around in kids and some adults they like it because it's delicious and it's also made to order like an adult drink rather than just shot out of a dispenser like yes kids drinks are and it's weird to think that shirley temple legendary movie star at one time now has a legacy that lives on not really in her movies but in this dream yeah like as a kid i hadn't i don't think i had ever seen a shirley temple movie but i still i would drink her drink all

13:02 the time and it was a part of my life and is more tangible to me than the woman herself is at this point and it's weird to have a drink named after you but it's not even like it's the julia roberts long island i see yeah yeah in this case shirley temple was the long island iced tea yeah the long island cereal yeah yeah there's no other thing to call it no it's it it crossed over like it just never had another name no and the only other drinks like that are the roy rogers which is nowhere near as popular and also the arnold palmer right but he's still kind of recent and he hasn't quite crossed over into the that singularity we should all hope to someday achieve the union of human entity with carbonated beverage