Talk:El Presidente (cocktail)

Importance
Someone tagged this as needing its importance explained. Well, it's a rum cocktail. How important could it be? Probably not as important as a Mai Tai or the Cuba Libre, but still, I'm inclined to let it be. -- ProveIt (talk) 01:56, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I actually started a similar article with the exact name many months ago, and later asked for it to be deleted. (See Articles for deletion/El Presidente (cocktail).)  My reason was that it was essentially just a recipie, and that Wikipedia is not a bartender's guide.  So I transwikied it to Wikibooks... only to discover recently that it and many other drink recipies were deleted.  My opinion now is that, if Wikibooks is not a bartender's guide, then Wikipedia might as well be.  Cheers! &mdash;  Eoghanacht  talk 19:19, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I re-added this tasty cocktail only because of its interesting history. There is so much symbolism around this drink and pre-communist Cuban society. I have heard of other juicey tid-bits like the namesake Cuban President offering Harry Truman an El Presidente (during prohibition), only to have it awkwardly declined, but haven't found many supporting sources. Completely agree. subjec of cocktails in general is less noteworthy than other wikipedia articles, but sometimes do hold a cultural or historical significance worth keeping around. --Citracyde 16:19, 9 October 2006 (UTC)