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
Mai Tai (band) their second UK Top 10 hit, peaking at No. 9. Their international breakthrough translated onto broke Mai Tai's popularity in the Netherlands. In 1986 their song "Female Intuition" became a Top 40 hit across Europe, and made Top 10 in Denmark. The follow-up single, "Turn Your Love Around" from the second album, "1 Touch 2 Much", went straight into the Top 10 of the Dutch Top 40. In 1987 Mai Tai released their modestly successful third album, "Cool Is The Rule" with the singles "Bet That's What You Say" and "Fight Fire With Fire"; were much less successful. After releasing