# Mimosas

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 2, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627 "2015-04-02T16:04:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627/1 "2015-04-02T16:04:37Z")

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Champagne and orange juice is called a mimosa. Did it ever have another name? Although the drink has been called a mimosa for nearly a century, it never really registered until the past ten years or so. It seems to me that in the '80s I’d never heard it, and the traditional brunch drink was called something else. If so, I haven’t had any luck discovering it. Maybe people just called it ‘champagne and orange juice’?

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627/2 "2015-04-02T17:06:17Z")

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I’ve called them Mimosas for the past 30-40 years. They were common at college during the 80’s.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627/3 "2015-04-02T19:14:52Z")

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I’ve known them as mimosas since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, which takes us back to the 50s.

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627/4 "2015-04-02T21:21:08Z")

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I call them mimosas in this thread, and nobody else mentions any other name.

> **[What champagne for mimosa?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=753041)**
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> OK, a mimosa is a combo of orange juice and champagne. Is a specific type of champagne best? See. I’m planning a dinner for two next Sunday, Easter, for me and my mother. Because of family work and other relatives not being able to assemble, it’s...

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**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mimosas/716627/5 "2015-04-02T23:22:45Z")

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Sometimes known as [Buck’s Fizz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%27s_Fizz_%28cocktail%29) in the UK.