reflecting about this week´s theme “bottles and jars” at the 3 muses i remembered one of our favorite drinks in my youth (the 70ies… oh my…): we loved to mix a shot of bacardi into our coca cola…

i painted the framing with a mix of green and white golden acrylics. stamp “coca cola” is from carmens´s veranda. i had to use print outs of the bacardi bottlecaps, because I COULD NOT FIND the real ones (i have some, in a nice “worn” condition… but ARGHH, i don´t know where they hide; i HATE when this happens!).

would you like to know how the bat became the logo of bacardi? i found the answer here:

In 1829 Don Facundo Bacardi Masso emigrated from Spain to Santiago, Cuba, bringing with him an inventive mind and a love for drinking. Immediately he discovered that the drinks, namely the rum that was popular on the island, was of a dark, rich, almost overwhelming nature.
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With the development of the new Bacardi rum, in 1862 Bacardi purchased a tin roofed factory building in which he planned to start a distillery. In the roof of the building lived a family of fruit bats, considered to be a good luck omen in Cuban mythology. To this day, the official logo of the Barcardi Company bears the likeness of a fruit bat in flight.

als ich so über das thema der woche bei den 3 musen nachdachte, kam mir ein drink aus meiner jugend (den 70ern, jaja…) in den sinn: wir kippten gerne mal einen schuss bacardi in unser cola…

nette geschichte übrigens, wie bacardi zu seinem logo kam: der firmengründer hatte sich eine fabrik gekauft, in der er seine destillerie einrichten wollte. unter dem blechdach lebte eine familie von fruchtfledermäusen, was laut kubanischer mythologie als gutes omen galt…