Drink Like a Pirate Day: The Bumbo

Tags:,,,,,,,,,, — Filed under:Cocktails — posted by Ardenstone on 2007/9/19 @ 2:16 pm

Arrr! It do be Talk Like a Pirate Day and as such the cats are wearing eye-patches and I be swillin’ rum. To prepare this fine cocktail you’ll be needing to first pirate a fine merchant vessel, preferably one with rum, sugar cane and spices.

The Bumbo

2 oz o’ amber or dark rum
1 oz o’ water
1/4 or 1/2 oz o’ simple sugar or two sugar cubes or a tablespoon or so of sugar
a dash o’ nutmeg
a dash o’ cinnamon

Throw all yer ingredients in a glass and drink it down! Pirates be short on ice, although it could be added for landlubbers.

8 comments »

  1. Yarr! What be the meanin’ o’ this here concoction’s name? Talk or walk the plank! (Oh, eight and a half long hours to go…)

    Comment by AE — 2007/9/19 @ 2:33 pm

  2. No idea, have I! Although it do be called Bombo or Bumboo depending on the pirate. There be a mostly useless article on Wikipedia. I did read somewhere that Bumbo was slang for certain genitalia, but I be leavin’ further research to the reader.

    Comment by Ardenstone — 2007/9/19 @ 3:15 pm

  3. I do be leery of a grog that calls for both rum AND sugar. Be it not too sweet?

    Comment by AE — 2007/9/19 @ 4:54 pm

  4. The grog be actually surprisin’ly tasty. It be sweet, but the water widens it out a bit and the spices complement the sweetness.

    I find myself happy that TLAP be only a day long, and once a year at that.

    Comment by Ardenstone — 2007/9/19 @ 9:27 pm

  5. Yarr! Twenty-two more minutes there be until Talk like a Pirate Day be keelhauled! Thank Christ for that. Yer time stamp be fucked-up, by the way.

    Comment by AE — 2007/9/19 @ 10:39 pm

  6. I’m quite pleased with WordPress as a whole, but it handles timezones really poorly at the moment (version 2.2.3). It basically just takes an offset from UTC (like GMT but more accurate by some fractions of a second or something). Unfortunately, said offset has no ability to deal with daylight savings. Theres talk of fixing it sometime in the future, and I could just go ahead and change it manually, but then I’d have to go ahead and change it back in a couple of months. Chances of me remembering: low. So they stay as they lay.

    Comment by Ardenstone — 2007/9/19 @ 11:24 pm

  7. Oh, I love Talk Like Nathaniel Poe Day! Someday I think those pirates and I are going to have a serious disagreement! (Unless this is Talk Like Nathaniel On The U.S.-Issued DVD Day; I mean, if you’re going to be a geek, be a geek, right?)

    Comment by AE — 2007/9/20 @ 7:07 am

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