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  • Garden & Gun

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    Jul 19, 2021 3 minutes
    By Jonathan Miles

    I’M NOT TERRIBLY INTERESTED IN WHO INVENTED THE rum and Coke. Many years ago, a man with the glorious name of Fausto Rodriguez used to go around claiming he was present at its birth—he even shelled out for a full-page ad saying so in magazine—but alas, poor Fausto, no one ever believed him. Maybe it’s because the invention was so… . Any one of us, needing to slake a tropical thirst, might have bumbled those two bottles together.

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