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Half Price Mojitos All Day

Too hard to get to Cuba these days? That's alright - we'll bring their most beloved drink to you. Come and see what the excitement is about with over 20 flavors to choose from, we'll sure to satisfy any palate. We also sell mojito party kits for your own parties at home.

A mojito (pronounced mo-HEE-toe), one of Cuba’s oldest cocktails, comes from the African word mojo, which means to place a little spell. In 1586, when Francis Drake and his pirates tried to sack Havana for its gold. While the invasion was unsuccessful, Drake’s associate, Richard Drake, was said to have invented a mojito like cocktail known as El Draque made with aguardiente (a crude forerunner of rum), sugar, lime and mint. Early on, it was consumed for medicinal purposes.

Around the mid-1800s, the recipe was altered and gained in popularity. In 1940, Cuban playwright and poet Federico Villoch proclaimed: ``When aquardiente was replaced with rum, the Draque was to be called a Mojito.’’

Ernest Hemingway fancied them at La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana as well as in Key West (his favorite drink was the daiquiri, though).