Post #168391 by Traitor Vic on Mon, Jun 27, 2005 8:57 PM

Excellent point, Kono! Trader Vic was always what my father likes to call "shifty." Shifty means "Sneaky" on some secondary level, perhaps, but "Good Sneaky Businessman", primarily. Never does it mean "Completely Dishonest" or "Liar." Trader Vic was more than happy to tell you that the Suffering Bastard was a cocktail created in the lounge at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo in 1950 while handing you a slightly modified Mai Tai with a Cucumber stuck in it. I always just figured Vic didn't want to serve anything that sounded as "Spanish" as Piña Colada. It could be (since he did serve a Daiquiri or two) that he just didn't want to serve a drink that he couldn't claim as his own.
This makes me wonder, too, which came first... The Piña Colada or the Chi Chi? I always assumed that Don the Beachcomber (or someone like him) made a Piña Colada with Vodka and gave it a new name. I've recently read, though, that the Piña Colada was created in the 70s. Of course, the person who wrote what I read might be an idiot. I say we should just try it with Tequila and wake up the next morning and talk about whether it was any good or not (if we decide it wasn't we should decide to try it with better Tequila).