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Caribar Caribe Hilton
Bar & grill · San Juan ·
How Tiki Bars Ripped Off the Caribbean Through Cultural Appropriation | Eater
"A hotel bar in the Caribe Hilton in San Juan credited as the birthplace of the pina colada: in 1954 Ramón “Monchito” Marrero Pérez developed the drink using local Don Q rum and Coco López canned cream of coconut. The spot is presented in the article as the definitive, natively Puerto Rican origin of the pineapple-coconut-rum cocktail and is used to argue that the pina colada is a tropical creation rooted in local ingredients and culture rather than a product of mainland tiki fantasia." - Alicia Kennedy
