by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! Though the Japanese Slipper cocktail looks brat-coded, it was invented long before Charli XCX was born. Frenchman Jean-Paul Bourguignon created it at the now-closed Mietta’s Restaurant in Melbourne in 1984 (Charli was born in 1992). Though the drink didn’t take off then, it’s now having a revival, becoming more popular than it ever was.
The drink is made with Midori, Cointreau, lemon juice and often a cherry, garnished with a slice of honeydew melon. Bourguignon came up with it while writing the cocktail menu for Mietta’s, reports Punch . var VMDAdsTheLatch = window.
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The very best of The Latch delivered straight to your inbox. “But, like many drinks of the 1970s and ‘80s, the Japanese Slipper has been through a period of staunch dismissal.
