Swizzle stick

Three common coffee swizzle sticks

A swizzle stick is a small stick used to hold fruit garnishes or stir drinks. The original swizzle sticks were created in the 18th century at a rum plantation in the West Indies. They were used to stir up Bermudian cocktails called Rum Swizzles and were made from the branch of a plant. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, stir sticks made of glass were created to shake out the bubbles from champagne, whose carbonation caused indigestion for some drinkers.

See also

• Quararibea turbinata

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Swizzle sticks.

• "Swizzle stick to detect drugs". BBC News. August 7, 2001. Retrieved 2008-07-11. 

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