I've been following the Bacardi Ltd. v. Pernot Ricard S.A. "Havana Club"rum trademark war, and even posted on it back here.
I just found this video tonight which explains better what I can't seem to say. Watch for yourself and chose sides! (I love the surprise ending taste-test):
15 comments:
"God's good gift." That's what the Puritans called rum. I'm a rum guy. My b-i-l is a bourbon guy, so I've been on a bourbon kick for awhile, but rum is my go to spirit. I've been trying to kill the bourbon he brought me on their last visit here and decided to take a time out and return to the rum. I forgot how much I liked it. It was like candy to me.
For just sipping, I drink Ron Zacapa rum. An acquaintance gave me these glasses to sip from, and they're nice.
We were at some friends' one day and my wife brought me a drink. I thought she was just being nice, but she was only offering me a sip of hers. I thanked her for it and kept it. It was Matusalem Puerto Rican dark rum with cream soda. Crazy good stuff. I have to special order it out here in the boonies, but it's worth it.
On the trashy side of life, Malibu mixed with Mountain Dew--call it a Malidew--is surprisingly good. You can keep the Captain Morgan's spiced stuff.
When I have a notion to drink some whisky I drink Glenmorangie. It is very good.
Through a series of unfortunate events I recently ended up with a bottle of Beacon bourbon made in Beacon NY. Truly horrible tasting corn likker. But it was a gift so if I ever have company that I really don't like I will offer it to them. Or use it to start fires.
As for rum, I had a sip of it back in the '80s. I'm good.
There’s a scene in “The Firm” in which Gene Hackman’s character extols the virtues of cuban Havana Club: “It tastes like cognac!” I can’t find a clip though. The Hackman played a very bad guy in that film.
The ethical/moral/commercial dilemma is should the US support a company and government which appropriated a family’s product at gunpoint?
I drank a lot of Bacardi/Cokes in the 80's and 90's. I convinced myself that they tasted better with Mexican Coke because it was supposedly made with real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, but I never challenged myself to prove it with a taste test.
The guy on the right is way too jazzed. I don't know that I've ever tasted rum plain. Never cared for Rum and Cokes, but never been a soda fan, either. Except now I like root beer.
I was talking to a cigar guy and he said the same legal problems are hanging over all Cuban cigar companies - those that bailed and set up new companies overseas using the same name they had in Coo-bah will have to sort out all of those legal issues before we will ever have true Cuban cigars for sale in a bodega near you.
Ask me about my big adventure smuggling cigars in from Canada one time.
Only if a cavity search was involved.
Why is that little man yelling at me?
Only if a cavity search was involved.
Ooooooooo!!! All the more fascinating and fun if dropped drawers were the unexpected outcome! Maybe some celery could be worked in to bulk up the story?
We listened to the Lucky Strike commercials posted on another blog yesterday, with fascination there too for what was being sold with peppy cheerfulness. Who'd want to miss out on such sophistication, fun and satisfaction??
The little guy provides the energy that moves the video forward. Like the peppy, bouncy semi-obnoxious tunes used in the Lucky Strike ad. I'd have clicked off if the mellow big guy as the straight man was doing all the talking. But I liked his conclusion: History meets reality. I was not surprised by the outcome. It seems the larger producer is tuned in to what appeals and sells.
chickelit, I asked the woman standing next to me at the summer wedding I attended last month, what she was drinking because it looked good. It was an Amaretto sour, a sweet/tart/aromatic combination that worked for me.
Looking it up just now made me smile as there is a version that also adds in rum, orange, pineapple and grenadine; and it's known as Sweet Mama's Punch!
https://realhousemoms.com/sweet-mamas-punch-copy-cat/
Why are there so many rums named after a guy named “Ron”?
Is coyness catching, or do such seemingly innocent questions add to levity and foster esprit de corps?
For rums from Spanish-speaking locales, the word ron is used. A ron añejo ("old rum") indicates a rum that has been significantly aged and is often used for premium products...-1770 for the first recording in Spanish of ron.
At least that's what the wiki says after going on about rumbullion, rumbustion, rummers and reomers with the Latin saccharum and iterum thrown in for good measure.
Why are there so many rums named after a guy named “Ron”?
Cause you can't make a decent Dadoo without it
or walk in the rain...
Post a Comment