[exotic drinks]

spirits, citrus and fruit juices, various sweeteners and spices

What came to be known as “exotic drinks” was almost entirely invented in Hollywood by Donn Beach, at his Don the Beachcomber restaurant (opened 1934): he created extraordinarily sophisticated variations on Planter’s Punch, and presented them with the trappings of fantasy escapism, drawing particularly from Polynesian language, art, and aesthetics; success and imitators followed; almost all exotic drinks are some form of punch, and the most famous examples are the Zombie and Mai Tai