I found this recipe on liquor.com.

rum, cola, lime

Rum! I’ve added rum to my bar.⁣
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I don’t speak Spanish, and I never thought until today that “Cuba Libre” actually MEANS something, and my first guess was “Cuba Book?”. No, that would be “Cuba Libro”. ⁣
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“Cuba Libre!”, which means “Free Cuba!” was a call to arms in the buildup to the Spanish-American War. In 1898, a US Army camp in Jacksonville, Florida was dubbed “Camp Cuba Libre”. Coca-Cola was a new thing back then, and it occurred to me that Coke was full of “coke” at the time. So they could drink their Cuba Libres with cocaine-Coke and real Cuban rum back then. (My research tells me that Cuban rum is the best in the world, but we cannot buy it here in the US.)⁣
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Really, it’s just rum and coke with lime. And I’ve got a good cola here, so it’s very tasty. Rum is a funny thing…it smells like straight-up NyQuil in the bottle, but it blends really nicely in sweet drinks. Or this one, at least.⁣
(Originally posted May 19, 2020)