“The White Mexican has no formal, documented origin story or specific inventor. It emerged as a grassroots cocktail in the post-Big Lebowski environment (after 1998) as a logical and playful variation on the classic White Russian. The cocktail represents the "Mr. Potato Head" theory of mixology, where core components of a classic drink are swapped out to create something new. The name is a simple, descriptive adaptation of "White Russian," swapping one nationality for another based on the substituted tequila ingredient. It belongs to the craft cocktail renaissance movement, demonstrating the creative and adaptive nature of modern cocktail culture.”