New Year's will be different with more people getting BLITZED at home this year. So what will YOU be sipping in your living room when midnight hits? A study looked at the most uniquely popular New Year's drink in all 50 states, not including beer. So only wine, champagne, and cocktails. Here's what they found . . .
1. Champagne is the top drink in 21 states, including most of the East Coast and a lot of states out West. And Connecticut is Prosecco, which is basically the same thing.
2. Frozen daiquiris are the top drink in five states: Maine, Mississippi, Rhode Island, Alabama, and Indiana.
3. Amaretto sour, four states: Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, and West Virginia.
4. Vodka-cranberry is #1 in Iowa, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Lemon drops are first in Arkansas and North Dakota. And palomas are first in Idaho and Oregon.
5. 12 states have a favorite drink that didn't place first anywhere else: In New Hampshire, margaritas . . . Utah, mimosas . . . Wisconsin, mulled wine . . . Hawaii, rum and Coke . . . Alaska, screwdrivers . . . Montana, tequila sunrise . . . Ohio, gin fizz . . .
Vermont, whiskey sour . . . South Dakota, kamikazes . . . Wyoming, White Russians . . . Delaware, New Year's Sparklers . . . and Louisiana, the sazerac. (It's a cognac and absinthe drink that's big in New Orleans and similar to an old fashioned.)
Source: Zippia