Daiquiri President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy rum was easily obtainable because the policy opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean. The Good Neighbor policy, also known as the Pan-American program, helped make Latin America fashionable. Consequently, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the choice of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US. The basic recipe for a daiquiri is also similar to the grog British sailors drank aboard ship from the 1740s as a means of preventing scurvy. By 1795 the
Cocktail umbrella exist. They can be used as toothpicks and may have been used as hat decorations in the past. It is also possible to use them as hair decorations and place cards to tell people where to sit at a hosted event. Drinks That Commonly use a Cocktail Umbrella: •Lava Lava •Hawaiian Margarita •Haupia •Lava Pit •Piña Colada •Kona Coffee-Tini •Mac Nut Martini •Mai Tai •Clipper-Tini Other Uses: Though the most common use for the cocktail umbrella is as a garnish in drinks there are many other uses people have found. As a decoration piece people have used the umbrellas to