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PIMM'S CUP, NUMBER ONE
James Pimm served Cups at his English oyster establishment in the nineteenth century. Unlike the head-start product, Pimm's Number One Cup (nor like groggy drink made of it and ginger ale), James Pimm's Cups would have been based on wine. His most famous cup was the one bearing his name and given the numerator, "number one," to show either its dominance or chronological priority. If the use of ginger ale in the fallen, twentieth-century drink bearing the same name is an echo of things past, it may be from James Pimm having used a very British wine, popular at the time, ginger wine, as its base.
