The Mary Pickford

Per Liquer.com: “The most popular origin story for this tropical favorite goes like this: In early 1920s Cuba, the Mary Pickford cocktail was created and named for the pioneering star, who was working on a film in Havana at the time with husband Douglas Fairbanks (as was Charlie Chaplin, Fairbanks’ best friend).”

Apparently, this story is pure hogwash, but it makes a nice fantasy. This seems like a sure path to a diabetic coma and also the hangover from hell. You could drink five of these without thinking twice, and then, before you pass out completely, you hear the bartender calling for a stretcher as you fall off your barstool in a drunken stupor onto the floor.

Serves two:

• 4 oz White Rum

• 4 oz Pineapple Juice (most recipes stress that it should be fresh juice; that seems like a LOT of work)

• 2 tsp Grendadine

• 1 tsp maraschino liqueur

• Ice

Fill a cocktail shaker 3/4 full with ice. Add all ingredients and shake like hell until chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry.