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) saw her daughter exchanging songs with Ruth Jacott, an acknowledged contemporary of Mai Tai. 1983–1996 Mai Tai (band) Mai Tai is a Dutch group (named after the tropical cocktail Mai Tai) that was formed in 1983 by the Dutch record producers Eric van Tijn and Jochem Fluitsma with three former backing vocalists Jetty Weels, Mildred Douglas and Caroline de Windt. Their debut single, "Keep On Dancin' " (1983) was only a hit in the Dutch nightclubs. In the summer of 1984 they released a second single, "What Goes O". It became their first hit in the Dutch Top 40, peaking