Must have drinks

The whole world knows how much Trinis love to 'lime' not the fruit lime but in more common terms it means 'hang out', 'socialize', 'get together'. A good 'lime' consists of good company, good food and of course good drinks, must have the drinks. The thing about Trinidadians we use every occasion as an excuse to drink, not just around Carnival and Christmas. We drinking for a birthday celebration, even a child's christening, a cricket lime, a river or beach lime. Where there are drinks there are Trinis. We especially look forward to the end of the work week and its Friday to have a few beers but I know some folks don't wait until its Friday hmmm...

Now for a little history about rum... Rum is made from molasses  which is made from sugar cane through a process of fermentation and distillation. Sugar cane was one of the crops cultivated by the Indentured laborers during the late 1800's when they arrived in Trinidad. Years later.... thanks to Angostura we now enjoy White Oak, Puncheon 'fire water', never me again *cough *cough and Black and White.

We took innovation to a whole new level and created a wide variety of drinks with different flavours. We have the non alcoholic beverages for those who can't handle the hard stuff like; Sandy (sorrel, lime and ginger), Ginseng (original, lemon/lime/grape, apple and kola champagne and, Malta and Smalta. For the soft/sweet drink lovers what American would call 'sodas' we have Solo and peardrax both locally made and for the beer lovers Carib and Stag.

Moving away from the alcohol ,to healthier drinks are our punches.Respect to the punch men at every street corner that make our bowels move faster.Oh gosh you can't beat back a barabadine or sour sop punch,tome channa is only to eat with curry ah not drinking it. chains, carrot, seamoss and paw paw are among some favourites. So to the punch men and Angostura, SM Jaleel we salute you as we lift our glasses, here is to being 'Trini'.