# The Wizard of Oz and Angostura Bitters
**URL:** https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004
**Category:** Cocktails and mixed drinks
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004 "2025-03-21T14:56:12Z")
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### Author:  [@RobertSimonson](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/RobertSimonson)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/1 "2025-03-21T14:56:12Z")
People have touched upon the connection between actor Frank Morgan and Angostura Bitters in the past several times, but there is possibly a morsel or two of new information in this piece I just published on The Mix.
> **[The Wizard of Bitters](https://robertsimonson.substack.com/p/the-wizard-of-bitters)**
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> Pay No Attention to That Actor Selling Angostura.
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### Author:  [@GoodSpiritsNews](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/GoodSpiritsNews)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/2 "2025-03-21T22:14:07Z")
Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch was quoted as saying that Frank “drank his lunch”.
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### Author:  [@HHFizz](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/HHFizz)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/3 "2025-03-23T01:36:27Z")
@RobertSimonson Did you happen to notice the “yellow brick road” in front of his grave?
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### Author:  [@GoodSpiritsNews](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/GoodSpiritsNews)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/4 "2025-03-23T12:43:12Z")
I don’t see one.
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### Author:  [@HHFizz](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/HHFizz)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/5 "2025-03-23T13:47:46Z")
Not sure if that’s an old photo or if this is a seasonal thing, but at the moment there’s yellow flowers in front of the grave to represent “the yellow brick road.”
The post below is from 2022, but I’ve seen them this year as well. You can see one of the yellow flowers at the close up of the grave.
> **[The Green-Wood Cemetery](https://www.facebook.com/historicgreenwood/posts/last-week-after-sharing-that-our-horticulture-department-created-a-yellow-brick-/7330704070302888/)**
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> Last week, after sharing that our horticulture department created a “yellow brick road” of crocuses to honor the legacy of actor Frank Morgan (who portrayed the Wizard of Oz alongside Judy Garland on...
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### Author:  [@GoodSpiritsNews](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/GoodSpiritsNews)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/6 "2025-03-23T14:50:14Z")
That’s great! I had not seen that before. Thanks for sharing!
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### Author:  [@RobertSimonson](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/u/RobertSimonson)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2025, 3:19pm UTC](https://spiritsandcocktails.community/t/the-wizard-of-oz-and-angostura-bitters/1004/7 "2025-03-23T15:19:16Z")
No. I was too early. Spring has not arrived at Green-Wood yet.