Lumumba (drink)

Hot lumumba with brandy

Lumumba or Dead Aunt is a mixed alcoholic drink. It consists of hot or cold cocoa with a dash of rum , sometimes also with whipped cream . Brandy or amaretto can also be used instead of rum . The drink is common in northern Germany and especially in northern Friesland as well as in the Netherlands and Denmark under the name Tote Aunt .

The name Lumumba is derived from the surname of the Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba . Due to its name, the Lumumba also got into the discussion about the renaming of racist names for drinks and food, such as Moor in a shirt , Negro kiss or the gypsy schnitzel . The name Dead Aunt goes back to a legend of the island of Föhr , according to which the urn with the ashes of a Föhrerin who died in America was returned to the island in a cocoa box. In literary terms, the drink found its way into the detective novel Three times Dead Aunt by Krischan Koch .

Web links

Wikibooks: Cocktails / Lumumba  - learning and teaching materials

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Becker: Drink Lumumba . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , March 31, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 15, 2014]).
2. ↑ Irene Brickner : Racist drink. In: derStandard.at . March 24, 2011, accessed April 15, 2014 .  
3. ^ Nordsee-Tourismus-Service GmbH: Regional delicacies.
4. ↑ 13 things that only North Frisians understand