Rum and coke calories
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Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. Rums are produced in various grades. Rum plays a part in the culture of most islands of the West Indies as well as the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland, in Canada. The Mount Gay Rum visitors centre in Barbados claims to be the world’s oldest active rum company, with the earliest confirmed deed from 1703. The origin of the word “rum” is unclear. It is often connected to the British slang adjective “rum”, meaning “high quality”, and indeed the collocation “rum booze” is attested.
Given the harshness of early rum, this is unlikely. That it comes from the large drinking glasses used by Dutch seamen known as rummers, from the Dutch word roemer, a drinking glass. That it is related to ramboozle and rumfustian, popular British drinks of the mid-17th century. However, neither was made with rum, but rather eggs, ale, wine, sugar, and various spices.
Regardless of the original source, the name was already in common use by 1654, when the General Court of Connecticut ordered the confiscations of “whatsoever Barbados liquors, commonly called rum, kill the devil and the like”. In current usage, the name used for a rum is often based on its place of origin. For rums from places mostly in Latin America where Spanish is spoken, the word ron is used. Rhum is the term that typically distinguishes rum made from fresh sugar cane juice from rum made from molasses in French-speaking locales like Martinique. French rum that meets several other requirements. Some of the many other names for rum are Nelson’s blood, kill-devil, demon water, pirate’s drink, navy neater, and Barbados water. A liquid identified as rum has been found in a tin bottle found on the Swedish warship Vasa, which sank in 1628.
An early rum-like drink is brum, which has been produced by the Malay people for thousands of years. Congress of Kraków, held in 1364. Rum production has been recorded in Brazil in the 1520s. Shidhu, a drink produced by fermentation and distillation of sugarcane juice, is mentioned in Sanskrit texts. Many historians now believe that rum-making found its way to the Caribbean islands along with sugarcane and its cultivation methods from Brazil. The chief fuddling they make in the island is Rumbullion, alias Kill-Divil, and this is made of sugar canes distilled, a hot, hellish, and terrible liquor.
By the late 17th century rum had replaced French brandy as the exchange alcohol of choice in the triangle trade. Canoemen and guards on the African side of the trade, who had previously been paid in brandy, were now paid in rum. After the development of rum in the Caribbean, the drink’s popularity spread to Colonial North America. To support the demand for the drink, the first rum distillery in the Thirteen Colonies was set up in 1664 on Staten Island. In the 18th century ever increasing demands for sugar, molasses, rum, and slaves led to a feedback loop that intensified the triangular trade. In “The Doctor’s Secret Journal”, an account of the happenings at Fort Michilimackinac in northern Michigan from 1769 to 1772 by Daniel Morison, a surgeon’s mate, noted that there was not much for the men to do and drinking rum was very popular.
Ensign Johnstone had no trouble selling this diluted rum. George Washington insisting on a barrel of Barbados rum at his 1789 inauguration. The people would attend the hustings to see which candidate appeared more generous. The candidate was expected to drink with the people to show he was independent and truly a republican.
