From K-QED.

If there's one thing people in the Bay Area love, it's our culinary treats.

Here at Bay Curious, we get a lot of questions like this.

My name is Brent Silver. I live in San Francisco and I asked Bay

curious which foods were invented in San Francisco. You already know some of the

answers. We've talked about them on this very show.

Sourdough bread, its-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-it-ic- cream sandwiches, chapino.

But there are some foods and drinks that you might not have heard of that were born right here in the bay.

This week we sent Brent to discover an iconic San Francisco cocktail

that was born during the gold rush and has a totally wild past.

I'm Olivia Allen Price.

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If you're a cocktail drinker,

you've probably tasted a few Peaceco sowers in your time. It's that pale

foamy drink made from Pisco, a highly potent Peruvian brandy. The Piscoe-Sower

first officially appeared in Peru back in the 1940s, but years before that,

San Francisco was gripped by a craze for another Pisco concoction that maybe should have come with a health

warning.

Reporter Carly Severn brings us the story of one beverage that embodied an era of excess.

It's Happy Hour in San Francisco Comstock Saloon in the city's North Beach neighborhood.

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