Malibu Sunset

This is a really good drink in my opinion, "apparently" invented in the 1980s, as coconut rum wasn't really marketed to the public until the early 1980s, so that pretty much shoots a year like 1977 in the hind end. With the "Malibu Sunset," the coconut flavor comes through and the sweetness of the grenadine mixes well with the fruit juices. Grenadine is a type of syrup made from pomegranate juice. It is VERY red and it adds that red color and a sweetness to numerous drinks. It is easily found in supermarkets and liquor stores. It is non-alcohol. 

 

For coconut rum, there are quite a number of choices, but "Malibu Coconut Caribbean Rum" and "Bacardi Coconut Rum" are likely the easiest to find. To my knowledge, "Malibu" is the best selling coconut rum in the world.    

 

Ingredients (per drink):

 

2 ounces coconut rum

3 ounces pineapple juice

2 ounces orange juice

1 tablespoon grenadine

1 orange slice

1 or 2 pineapple chunks

2 maraschino cherries

ice

tall glass (12 ounce)

 

Fill the glass with ice, add the rum and juices, stir to mix, then add the grenadine along the side (it will sink). Garnish with orange slice, chunk or two of pineapple and 2 or 3 cherries.  

 

 

WORD HISTORY:

Doom-This word is related to "do," "deed" and "deem," all words from the Germanic roots of English, and it is distantly related to "defect," a Latin-derived word borrowed by English from French, and to "deficient," another Latin word, but in this case borrowed by English directly from Latin. "Doom" goes back to Indo European "dhe," which had the notion, "to make, to bring about (later in English, as in, "to do harm"), "to be engaged in an activity (later in English, as in, "they got ready to do battle"), to put (into place)." This gave Old Germanic "domaz" meaning "a decision made, a judgment," and this gave Old English "dom" meaning "a judgment, decree, a law, a sentence (in legal sense)." This later became "doom(e)," and "doom." The idea of judgments having bad consequences for some seems to have led "doom" more and more toward its more modern ominous meaning, with its use in Old English as "dómdæg," meaning "judgment day," also "domes dæg," using the genitive case and meaning, "day of judgment," both later becoming modern English "doomsday," and both having a major influence on the direction of the meaning, with the meaning in the religious sense (per 'doomsday'), "undesired or bad fate" taking firm hold as a strong meaning, and with that broadening to "impending danger, feeling of inevitable destruction" becoming the main meaning by the latter part of the 1500s and early 1600s. The verb developed in the latter part of the 1300s, as "domen," from the noun and initially meant "to judge, to give a judgment about," but its meaning followed that of the noun to "give a bad judgment to someone as to their fate;" thus also, "to condemn someone to an undesired punishment or fate," and further, "to bring about a severe or destructive consequence," as in, "The amount of damage inflicted by the iceberg doomed the Titanic." The other Germanic languages have: German once had "tuom" (judgment), Dutch has "doem" (a condemnation, a curse/jinx) and the verb "doemen" (to condemn), both Low German and Frisian once had "dom" (judgment), Icelandic has "dómur " (judgment, legal sentence/punishment), Norwegian "dom" (judgment), Danish "dom" (verdict, judgment, conviction, but also "damnation," maybe this sense borrowed from English?), Swedish "dom" (judgment, verdict).