Why is it that tropical cocktails – the sunniest drinks going around – always have a umbrella bobbing around in them? Perhaps it’s to save your beverage from an unexpected shower. Apparently, back in the 50s, Harry Yee at the Hilton Waikiki was among the first to garnish a beverage with this charming little addition. He originally used sugarcane, but his patrons would nibble them and put the remains in ashtrays that he’d have to scrub. To save himself from the manual labour, he traded up to the umbrella. Endearing as that kitsch decoration might have been more than half […]