DUmmie FUnnies 04-11-08 (Rum and Coca Cola Song)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 11, 2008 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

Right now I have a nice little buzz going with a glass of Flor de Caña extra dry rum so I want to share this music VIDEO with you. It is the Andrews Sisters singing "Rum and Coca Cola" from 1945. The song is especially enjoyable if you are drinking rum as I am doing right now. Of course, Flor de Caña is much too good to dilute with Coca Cola but I still like it as the best rum drinking song ever. Some great images of rum brands in this video and it will definitely make you CRAVE a drink of rum. BTW, anyone out there ever stop to think that all rum starts out as nothing but shit, soil, sun, and water? And yet it all ends up as a great tasting drink. Charles, file this song away. Maybe a great source for a future parody song. Okay, back to my Flor de Caña...

[PJ-Comix]

I could go into how rum MADE America but I am a little too buzzed to get into it right now. However, rum was definitely THE drink back in colonial times. The biggest industry in New England was distilling rum. End of history lesson.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[PJ-Comix]

Hey! My wife just told me there is a Spanish language version to this song. Same tune but in Spanish. Now I need to find the Spanish version as well but probably not as good as the original Andrews Sisters version.

[KJC1]

No rum for me today (gotta work later), but you are making me think of how good a Mai Tai would taste!

[Charles Henrickson]

rum was definitely THE drink back in colonial times. The biggest industry in New England was distilling rum.

There is a song about that in the musical, "1776."

[PJ-Comix]

There is a song about that in the musical, "1776."

Link?

[Poser]

Top 10 as usual!

[rockrr]

Ummm rum!

[Ax]

I just returned to Miami today from a week-long Caribbean cruise. One of the stops was at George Town, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. We hit a place called Hell, GC. One of the shops sold a variety of Tortuga rums. I tried a nip of Mango Rum and found it to be outstanding, so I bought a bottle to bring with me. This rum is too good to be mixed with anything but ice.

For the record, the best rum on the planet is STILL Havana Club.

[Red_Devil 232]

I would have been disappointed if Pusser’s Rum had not been in the video!

[Vision]

Great song.

[MarineBrat]

My mother (now in her 80’s) told me that when she was a teenager her mother forbade her from playing this song in their house.

[Charles Henrickson]

"Molasses to Rum"

It's about the hypocrisy of the New Englanders who profited from the slave industry.

[xtinct]

Late 60s... along with pot, rum & coke was the drink of choice for the MIT crowd at Cape Cod.

[Paul Heinzman]

I could go into how rum MADE America but I am a little too buzzed to get into it right now.

Do Fitzmas up right--get really hammered and write a bombastic, angry rant about it. That would be FUn.

[Ditter]

What is rum made out of, do you know?

[Ditter]

I think you just answered my question.

[bcsco]

Well, a Cuba Libre was the drink of choice among my small group. We’d get together, make a gallon cooler of it (including the limes), then spend the day on a pontoon boat.

But today I’ll toast you shortly with my weekend 2 fingers of Woodford Reserve.

BTW, you’ve delved into my type of music (at least genre & era)...

[Paul Heinzman]

That would be “Ron y Coca Cola” by Julio Iglesias, but I couldn’t find it on YouTube.

[PJ-Comix]

What is rum made out of, do you know?

In the English speaking Caribbean and Latin countries...mollasses. In the French speaking Caribbean...sugar cane juice. Both from sugar cane originally but from different parts of it.