When did “rum” change its meaning? Apparently it now means “bacardi”.
I was in my local pub last night and asked for a “rum and coke”. The barmaid tried to give me a bacardi and coke. It seems that you now need to specifically ask for “dark rum” if you want rum.
As far as I know, Bacardi *is* (a brand of) rum. Am I wrong?What is the difference between “Bacardi” and “rum”, in your eyes?Your entry sounded like somebody complaining about shandy being made with Stella Artois when shandy is made from beer and lemonade, but they put Stella Artois in instead of beer. But SA *is* beer, isn’t it?Now I’m confused.
You have a point. Bacardi _is_ a kind of rum. But my point is about the “default value” of “rum”.Until recently, if you asked for “rum” in a pub, you would have been given dark rum. If you wanted Bacardi then you would need to ask for it specifically. It seems that the default is now Bacardi and you need to ask for dark rum specifically.I guess it’s all to do with the relative popularity of the drinks.
I used to be a bartender and the standard rum and coke is a ‘well’ drink which gets the cheap house rum unless you ask specifically for a premium dark rum like Meyer’s. I drank Meyer’s and coke for years and I always, always had to specify the rum as Bacardi is to rum what Dewar’s is to scotch. :)
In most parts of France, Stella Artois is indeed the default value of $beer; (this doesn’t mean we consider it to be fully a beer, though.)
You should consider yourself lucky. At my old school, in one bar, rum meant “Bacardi 151”. So, a relaxing night of rum and cokes would turn into a rather messy night instead.
Mmmmmmmm.. bacardi and rum.