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Bloody Mary Origins - Bloody Mary Drink Recipe - Esquire

"Ernest Hemingway, who likely knocked back a few Red Snappers on his visits to Harry’s New York Bar in the 1920s, wrote in a 1947 letter that he had introduced the Bloody Mary to Hong Kong in 1941, an act he said ‘did more than any other single factor except the Japanese Army to precipitate the Fall of that Crown Colony.’"