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proof that champagne just needed an excuse to clock in before noon
means A brunch cocktail of chilled sparkling wine topped with orange juice, served by the flute and rarely by the singular.
from Named after the mimosa plant, whose feathery yellow blossoms match the drink's pale-gold color. The plant's name traces to Latin 'mimus' (mimic) — possibly because the sensitive mimosa folds its leaves at a touch, as if imitating a creature shrinking away. The cocktail itself is generally credited to a Paris hotel bar in the 1920s, though exact details are murky.
- plant twin
- shares its name with a leaf-folding shrush
- brunch math
- orange juice makes it count as breakfast
- french origin
- likely born at a 1925 Paris hotel bar
- color credit
- named for the yellow mimosa flower's hue
- bottomless trap
- the word that empties wallets at brunch
mimosa cocktail — champagne and orange juice drink, popularized at ritz paris in 1925
mimosa pudica — sensitive plant native to brazil, leaves fold when touched
acacia dealbata — silver wattle tree, called mimosa in southern france, blooms yellow in february