Drinking Rum and Coca-Cola - Tiki Drinks and Food

S savoy6 Tiki Centralite douglasville ,ga. Joined: Aug 18, 2008 Posts: 38	S savoy6 Posted posted on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 6:11 AM the problem is that the high fructose crap's taste is just way too overpowering for mixing....hell, the corn syrup is handled as a HAZMAT item at the pepsi bottling plant down the road from my work.you can usually find the cane sugar coke at any international market....or sometimes in the hispanic food section of the grocery store. as a non-tiki aside...just for historical reference...since that is my field..lol.. "American troops were sent to Trinidad to protect the British Crown Colony from Nazi attack. By 1943 there were 20,000 Yankee soldiers and sailors patrolling the place and the consumption of Coca-Cola increased by a factor of ten - from 10,000 cases a month to 100,000 cases!" US troops from the Canal Zone ,33rd Infantry Rgmt...our only unit trained specifically for jungle warfare at the start of the war,were stationed in Trinidad as early as sept. of '41. they conducted security operations for dutch bauxite mines in surinam,provided the security for the Dutch Queen during several german kidnapping attempts when she was in surinam on her way to canada,and mounted raids against german U-boat supply bases in surinam and french guiana as well as fighting U-boats that attempted to use these supply dumps.they actually caused the germans to shift operations to vichy martinique by nov. of '41....which they were put on alert to participate in the invasion of that was scheduled for early '43..but then the vichy forces in martinique surrendered..good thing too, given how much of the french fleet was there...much of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 33rd volunteered for a "sectret mission" in early '44...they became the main manpower base for the outfit known as Merill's Marauders...the 3rd Batt. went on to garrison aruba for the rest of the war...hard duty i'm sure...lol..there were also numerous fighter ,bomber and patrol squadrons bases at trinidad from both the USN and USAAC as well as their attending support units..... and yes...i have been told i ought to write a book on the war in the carribean....lol.. [ Edited by: savoy6 2009-10-14 06:13 ]

the problem is that the high fructose crap's taste is just way too overpowering for mixing....hell, the corn syrup is handled as a HAZMAT item at the pepsi bottling plant down the road from my work.you can usually find the cane sugar coke at any international market....or sometimes in the hispanic food section of the grocery store.
as a non-tiki aside...just for historical reference...since that is my field..lol..

"American troops were sent to Trinidad to protect the British Crown Colony from Nazi attack. By 1943 there were 20,000 Yankee soldiers and sailors patrolling the place and the consumption of Coca-Cola increased by a factor of ten - from 10,000 cases a month to 100,000 cases!"

US troops from the Canal Zone ,33rd Infantry Rgmt...our only unit trained specifically for jungle warfare at the start of the war,were stationed in Trinidad as early as sept. of '41. they conducted security operations for dutch bauxite mines in surinam,provided the security for the Dutch Queen during several german kidnapping attempts when she was in surinam on her way to canada,and mounted raids against german U-boat supply bases in surinam and french guiana as well as fighting U-boats that attempted to use these supply dumps.they actually caused the germans to shift operations to vichy martinique by nov. of '41....which they were put on alert to participate in the invasion of that was scheduled for early '43..but then the vichy forces in martinique surrendered..good thing too, given how much of the french fleet was there...much of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 33rd volunteered for a "sectret mission" in early '44...they became the main manpower base for the outfit known as Merill's Marauders...the 3rd Batt. went on to garrison aruba for the rest of the war...hard duty i'm sure...lol..there were also numerous fighter ,bomber and patrol squadrons bases at trinidad from both the USN and USAAC as well as their attending support units.....

and yes...i have been told i ought to write a book on the war in the carribean....lol..

[ Edited by: savoy6 2009-10-14 06:13 ]

Post #488131 by savoy6 on Wed, Oct 14, 2009 6:11 AM