There can be no honest controversy here, ladies; the answer is incontrovertible and beyond debate. Perhaps Ogden Nash said it best, as he so often did (emphasis added):

There is something about a mint julep.
It is nectar imbibed in a dream
As fresh as the bud of the tulip,
As cool as the bed of a stream.
There is something about a mint julep.
A fragrance beloved by the lucky,
And perhaps it's the tint
Of the frost and the mint,
But I think it was born in Kentucky.