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No particular legend around julep, I don't think, Sweetie. It's very prosaic, acc'g. to Atomica:
ju·lep (jû'lĭp)
n.
A mint julep.
A sweet syrupy drink, especially one to which medicine can be added.
[Middle English, a sugar syrup, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, from Arabic julâb, from Persian gulâb, rosewater : gul, rose (from Middle Persian vardâ) + âb, water (from Middle Persian âpfrom Old Persian).] However, I did find a neat link that includes the legend of mint: http://home.att.net/~ejlinton/dom_mint-julep.html============================================================ Alex, that's a great story! I'm surprised: when most foreigners I've known of hear Kentucky, they think "Fried Chicken". I was amazed to see, on one of the first pages of a guidebook to Indonesia  , Saya mau ayam goreng Kentucky: "I want Kentucky Fried Chicken". For the record: yes, I am a Kentuckian born and bred, but I think whiskey is horrid and bourbon abominable--though it smells good.
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I visited Japan in 1992. On my way to my destination of Kochi, on the island of Shikoku, I got as far as Osaka by plane and from there had to take a train and finally, a bus. I had a three or four hour stopover in Osaka before my train left, so I found a little bar/restaurant. Once inside, I was immediately noticed by the locals, who asked me where I was from. When I replied that I was from Kentucky, three men exclaimed in near-perfect unison, "Ahh! Bourbon!"
Well, Alex, the link did say that, next to the US, Australia, Japan, and Germany are the three biggest bourbon-loving countries.
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Jackie, thanks for that look-up!  Now how old Persian came to migrate itself via old Frog and M.E. into a name of a Southern drink, only God (and maybe the OED, AHD or tsuwm) knows. Is Atomica a source in itself? Or does it rely on specific dictionaries?
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Well lord knows I heard "Kentucky Fried Chicken!" just about every other day in Japan. I like KFC but one gets tired of hearing it day after day.
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Is there any other kind of julep?
There's Orange Julep: http://www.orangejulep.com/html_e/index.htm
Hawaiian Julep: http://www.hawaiianjulep.com/
Champagne Julep (pmf): http://www.atontour.com/cocktail/388/Champagne+julep.html
Yes, but Hawaiian Julep is a Texas-based company, not a drink; Orange Julep is a latter-day soft drink (not to be confused with Orange Julius); and Champagne Julep is just a minty variation with Champagne instead of Bourbon.
Not to be picky or anything.
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Not to be picky or anything.Well...Faldage can handle it! 
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Sorry, Anna; I should have included the rest of the Atomica page, I guess, though I have before:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. I was thinking, as I read that earlier, how wonderful I think our tsuwm is for developing a site that is sometimes credited by Atomica! [proud e]
I, too, thought about the traveling the word julep did. I guess people back then knew the word. I have never heard it in any other context than with mint. As far as I know, people here today just say syrup. I must say, "mint julep" has more appeal to it than "mint syrup" does! By the way, does anyone else fluctuate in their pronunciation of the word syrup? I say some i's northern and some southern, but I don't know if being in a border state accounts for my saying sir-up at some times and sear-up at others.
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Faldage can handle it!
Why don't you handle it, Juan?
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Why don't you handle it, Juan?
Huh?
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