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Best margaritas on Long Island
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Decades before Jimmy Buffett marketed beach-bum chic via "Margaritaville" and endless tie-ins, there was ... the Margarita.
This versatile, summery tequila cocktail has numerous backstories, none certain.
The generally accepted ones have a Mexican restaurateur concocting the drink to satisfy a customer allergic to spirits other than tequila; or a bartender trying to re-create by memory...
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