Wondrich also points out that this was a barman's tale because Thomas was born in 1830 and would have started bartending in the 1840s. Instead, he recounts the story that "Professor" Jerry Thomas often told, which claimed he named it after two pet mice. In cocktail historian David Wondrich's book "Imbibe!" (2nd edition, 2015), he makes no mention of Egan. " A play was staged shortly after its publication in 1821, and it's said that Egan named the drink as a cross-promotion for its debut.
One story says that the drink was named after British journalist Pierce Egan's book "Life in London: Or The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq., and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom. (It's possible the characters reference the drink, but that's up for debate.) Contrary to what you might think, this one doesn't refer to the classic cartoon characters. Cocktail origin stories are typically interesting to trace, and there are often multiple accounts.
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