Cocktail umbrella
A poke (also cocktail screen , Dekoschirmchen , Eisschirmchen , paper umbrella is) a small, foldable umbrella made of paper, cardboard strip and a toothpick , which for decorating cocktails , ice creams is used or desserts.
It is unknown when and by whom the cocktail umbrella was invented. It is believed that it was first used in the early 1930s in California to decorate exotic rum- based drinks as part of the tiki fashion . Both Victor Bergeron ( Trader Vic’s in San Francisco ) and Donn Beach (Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt, 1907–1989, also called Don the Beachcomber , Hollywood , Los Angeles ) are credited with the invention of the small umbrella. According to another source, Harry Yee ( Hilton Waikiki in Waikiki , Hawaii ) is said to have used the cocktail umbrella for the first time in 1959. The original purpose of the invention is also controversial. Usually the shade-giving effect for cold drinks served on the beach or pool or the effect that appeals to women are given as reasons.
“At the newly opened ladies section of men's clubs, a fresh breed of nymphs hovered over their drinks, busily telling the bartender just how much honey to use in a Bees Knee, and how much curacao went into a Flying Dutchman. Adding, perhaps: Will you please put a cocktail umbrella in that? "
“In the newly opened women's areas of the men's club, a new generation of nymphs floated over their mixed drinks, busy explaining the amount of honey to the bartender in a Bees Knee or of Curaçao in a Flying Dutchman . To add if necessary: Would you please put in a cocktail umbrella? "
Contrary to what the term “cocktail umbrella” suggests, paper umbrellas are not a common or even typical decoration for all types of cocktails . Beyond tiki fashion and tropical fancy drinks, they play no role at the bar, are often not mentioned at all in the specialist literature and sometimes even seen as faux pas :
“For me, a cocktail is not a fruit and vegetable salad, and it is certainly not suitable for an umbrella or national flag. Americans, who fear the imagination of such bartenders, therefore demand 'no vegetables please' for their drinks. "
Today's industrially manufactured cocktail umbrellas can be opened and closed like an umbrella or parasol (but with a slide, keel and paragon pole made of cardboard). To prevent unintentional unfolding during storage, cocktail umbrellas are usually held together with a small elastic band.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Susie Behar, Robert Yarham: Great Inventions. 100 Inventions That Have Shaped Our World . Igloo, Sywell 2007, ISBN 978-1-84561-935-0 (English).
- ^ The History Channel Australia: Tiki Restaurant and Cocktail Umbrella Inventor Dies
- ^ Rochelle Bilow: The Exciting History and Origin of the Cocktail Umbrella. In: Huffington Post . March 24, 2014, accessed March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ According to: Eric Johnson, Glorious Shades: A long-overdue tribute to the cocktail umbrella at Metroactive.com, first published in the issue of 17. – 23. June 1999 in Metro, Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper , Metro Publishing Inc. (English)
- ↑ No mention, for example, in the following works: Helmut Adam , Jens Hasenbein, Bastian Heuser: Cocktailian. The bar's manual . Tre Torri, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-941641-41-9 ; Stephan Hinz : Cocktail Art - The Future of the Bar . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7716-4553-3 ; Uwe Voigt: The great textbook of bar science. 2nd, revised edition, Matthaes Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-87515-018-6 (section “Garnituren”, pp. 76–83); Simon Difford: Cocktails # 10 . Odd Firm of Sin (self-published), London 2012, ISBN 978-0-9556276-2-0 (English) in the “Garnishes” section (pp. 50-61).
- ^ Charles Schumann : Schumann's Bar , Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011 (1st edition), ISBN 978-3-89910-416-5 , p. 261.
Web links
- Who invented the cocktail umbrella - and why? at straightdope.com on November 17, 2000 (English)
- The Story of the Drink Umbrella at coopwinespiritsbeer.com (English)