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It looks like Fedex will be bringing pirate stuff earlier than expected... The box will be here in time for the party on Saturday. Now I just have to decide if we need to keep it untouched for All Hallows... :-)

Ray, one of our DH Partygoers pointed out PirateMod, which sells pirate gear, especially (only?) t-shirts. Go have a look, it's nifty. That's a lot of different skull'n'crossbones insignia.

I'm trying to figure out how to do a good rum punch with marinated fruit, kinda like a Sangria. Any of you folks done that before? Anybody got a recipe?

Oh, and by popular request we are now well-equipped for margaritas. Some decent tequila (no, not Cuervo, that's not decent tequila) and locally-made mixers. The mixers look good but I haven't tried them, so perhaps I should get a recipe for doing 'em from scratch. That's hard to do in big batches, though.

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YAY!

Oh, damn, what's the formula? It's like 1 part drink, 2 parts sour 3 parts sweet or somesuch. I'll check my cookbook ("Jamaican Recipes from od Jamaican Grandmothers") tonight and get you the Caribbean-pirate approved mix.

s/not decent/not even/im
s/some decent tequila/some decent tequila, like Don Patron/gm

Hmmm, margaritas... Do you have a sufficiently powerful blender or ice crusher?

If the weather is cool enough, you might also want to consider mulled wine.

I strongly recommend the esquire drink database.
http://www.esquire.com/foodanddrink/database/home_page.html
It's opinionated about many things, but their opinion is often right.

I have what's not a recipe per se but am perfectly happy to come up there early (assuming I learn how to get there) and help to make a tasty yuminess.

But the basic idea is big huge brand new plastic bin, rum, kool aid, and tons of fruit. Mix all together, marinate for several hours to let the fruit suck up the alcohol, and nosh.

:)

I also make a really yummy tequila sangria that I'd be wiling to whip up.

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