Cubans have made a giant daiquiri in honor of Ernest Hemingway. Really giant.
From a piece in the New York Daily News...
It is well known that the most masculine of all novelists, Ernest Hemingway, found his solace in that sweet concoction know as the daiquiri. And on Saturday, bartenders at Havana's El Floridita tavern, where Hemingway fell in love with the slushy rum cocktail during his lengthy sojourn in Cuba, paid homage to Papa's favorite drink by attempting to set the record for the largest daiquiri in the world.
According to the Associated Press, the effort took place, in a manner befitting the notoriously hard-drinking Hemingway, well before the sun was over the yardarm (at 9 a.m., to be precise) and involved waiters pouring blender-fulls of daiquiri into a nearly seven-foot tall plastic cocktail glass that could hold a total of 71 gallons. El Floridita insiders believe the bid will earn them a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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