Felice Friese > wrote:

>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message

>> Was it the same guy who started calling burittos "wraps"?

>My husband, whom I married in 1955, made "simple syrup" for whiskey sours,
>so I guess I picked it up from him.

Well, as I was born in 1955 that certainly is earlier than
I encountered the term.

In my memory, it was "bar syrup" up to about 10 years ago
then it became "simple syrup". Obviously these things
go in cycles.

Steve