/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17969763
Ironically the wild west didn't drink whiskey shots and beer like in the movies, they had champagne and gin cocktails with ice and soda water to sip in their saloons. Tequila would have probably been more common with actual cowboys, especially since most were mexican anyway.

I wouldn't call rum the libertarian drink but it is an outlaw or rebel drink. It was popular during the prohibition because it was easier to smuggle over the border or in on a boat. Don the Beachcomber was a bootlegger and worked in a speakeasy, but when the prohibition ended he wanted to keep rum alive as everyone else was switching to whiskey, beer, and wine. So he started making very precise and complex rum cocktails and he kicked off the first wave of the tiki and exotica craze. He made restaurants with exotic asian and southeast island styled decor, bamboo, served basic chinese food (exotic to some at the time), and created some of the most complicated and well balanced cocktails ever, such as the zombie.