Sure, that may not seem noteworthy to the rest of the world, but readers from the US know that is something never seen. As I decided I would make celebratory mojitos tonight for Butters and Illy, I went to the local bottle shop to purchase white rum. Looking at the dazzling array of offerings I found one that the type, price and size were right but the label was - unfamiliar. For a moment I just stared at it, seeing the label was written in spanish (nothing new, especially in the US) but puzzling over where it said it was from. I had to laugh at myself when I finally realized that "Cuba" in spanish was, in-truth, Cuba. Yes, that's how much we've been conditioned in the US - so that it doesn't even occur to us.
So I bought it. And while the the mojitos I serve will, I'm sure, be thirst quenching to the others; to me it will all be just a little bit cloak-and-dagger.- Farmer Ted
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