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
Performance and Cocktails With sales of over 2.5 million, "Performance and Cocktails" is the Stereophonics' second best-selling album (after "Just Enough Education to Perform", which has sold over 3.5 million). The record has been certified 5× Platinum in the UK and Platinum in Europe. It has spent a total of 101 weeks in the UK top 100 charts. The album is seen as one of the best albums in 90s British rock history. At the "Kerrang!" awards in 1999, "Performance and Cocktails" won the "Best Album" award and Stereophonics further won "Best British Band" the same year. On their "Albums of the Year"