A-Z Guide to Cocktail Names & Origins (Part 2) Slideshow

Inventor Don Beaches was an innovator of the Polynesian-style, umbrella-bedded fufu drink. Real Polynesians never drank such things, but the tropical atmosphere at Beaches's Los Angeles restaurant inspired him. Don "the Beachcomber" made Scorpions, Beachcombers and Zombies seem as island-indigenous as poi. He invented the Zombie back in the thirties as a mix of three different rums, papaya juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, lemon juice, grenadine, orgeat, Pernod and curaçao. What has survived is the 151 float — that, and the effect its name suggests.

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