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Circus performer Henry E. Allott, also known as "Bunk," is one possible inventor of pink lemonade. He supposedly spilled cinnamon candies in the lemonade, turning it pink. Read Full Story. Another story goes, in 1857, that water used for washing pink tights was used for "strawberry lemonade," and no one seemed to notice it tasted like dirty.

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The first comes from Henry E. Allott, whose New York Times obituary (1912) bills him as the "Inventor of Pink Lemonade," and attributes his creation to a stroke of luck: one day, mixing a batch of plain yellow lemonade, Allott claimed to have knocked a pile of red cinnamon candy into the tub by mistake. "The resulting rose-tinted mixture.

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Pink Lemonade's second origin, accounts Smithsonian Mag, churns our stomachs a little less. A New York Times article from 1912 spotlights circus promoter and saloon keeper Henry E. Allott as the.

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The first, he says, is a 1912 New York Times obituary for Henry E. Allott , a Chicago native who ran away to the circus in his early teens. Allott is believed to have 'invented' pink lemonade.

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The second claim to pink-lemonade fame is also a result of a lemonade mishap. According to a 1912 New York Times article, Henry E. Allott -- a circus promoter, saloon-keeper and gambler -- was the originator of this drink. "One day while mixing a tub full of the orthodox yellow kind he dropped some red cinnamon candies in by mistake," the newspaper wrote.

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However, we're focused on Henry E. Allott, who ran away from home as a teenager to join the circus, and his 1912 obituary credits him with inventing pink lemonade. Allegedly, Allott dropped red.

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A third contender for pink lemonade's origin involves yet another oopsy-daisy day at the circus. This one posits that concessions-man Henry E. Allott (aka Bunk Allot) was mixing up a batch of his.

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The death of HENRY E. ALLOTT will be mourned by boys of the older generation. For he was the circus man whose red-coated cinnamon candies, dropped in a tub of lemonade, thereafter made the pink.

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As for how pink lemonade was first introduced, the story goes that a New York Times obituary for Henry E. Allott credits him with inventing pink lemonade. According to this story, Allot accidentally dropped some red cinnamon candies into a big batch of regular lemonade, turning the beverage pink.

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Added: May 10, 2010. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 52218160. Source citation. Buried on September 17, 1912. (Death Certificate) He died at home: 15 South Leavitt Street His father was John Allott (Born in England). He claimed to be the inventor of pink lemonade, but this is the subject of dispute. Known as Bunk Allen, he was a circus vendor.

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One credits Henry E Allott, who ran away with a travelling circus, and accidentally added red cinnamon candies to some lemonade. Another claims that Pete Conklin, also making lemonade while working for a circus, used some water that a performer had used to wring out some pink-coloured tights.

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• Henry E. "Bunk Allen" Allott ran away from home to join the circus at the age of 15 and worked a concession stand. He claims his creation was a total accident and that,.

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1912: A New York Times obituary for Henry E. Allott, a Chicago man who, as a teenager, ran away to join the circus, credits him with inventing pink lemonade. According to this story, Allot.

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The first was teenager Henry E. Allott, who according to a 2017 piece in Food & Wine "was in charge of both the candy and lemonade concessions for a circus" in 1872. "Either by his own clumsiness or someone else's, he dropped a whole container of red cinnamon candies into a vat of freshly-made lemonade.". As a result, the drink was.

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A 1912 obituary in The New York Times archives names Henry E. Allott, who ran away from home as a teenager to join the circus, as the inventor of pink lemonade. Allegedly, he unintentionally.

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CHICAGO, Sept. 17. -- Henry E. Allott, known all through the Middle West as 'Bunk' Allen, member of the old Chicago gambling syndicate, saloonkeeper, theatrical promoter, circus man, and inventor.