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The kiwi meets the lime It was just a few short years ago, that my husband worked at a hotel on the Cable Beach strip, and I remember making it a Thursday treat to purchase a cool, slushy-thick strawberry daiquiri or a strawberry-mango daiquiri mix from the daiquiri stand in front of the straw market and the bank. I would slurp on this refreshing drink while I waited for him to exit, on those hazy, lazy, hot summer days when I wished I didn't have to go back to the office. Knowing that I enjoyed my daiquiri so much, sometimes he would purchase a daiquiri and have it in hand, when he had to pick me up. It wasn't too hard to do, I always ordered the same two flavors. Well, as all things go, too much of the same thing can make the heart yearn for distance, and eventually my cravings for those daiquiris went away. And over time, the man that owned the roadside bar even closed shop. Under new ownership, a few years ago, the daiquiri bar, which tourists flock to reopened, and has been doing brisk business every since — at least from what I see as I drove on by to go home — never stopping to pick up a drink, because the only thing I would have ordered would have been my same old staples, that just didn't seem to appeal to me. I'd gotten bored with the flavors. The other day I was about my business of driving home, when I noticed a friend sitting at the bar, enjoying a drink, at the daiquiri stand her fiancee's dad had taken over, and I pulled over to chat. The next thing I knew, Nicholai was asking what I wanted to drink, I was all set to say nothing, until I noticed my friend sipping on a pale green concoction with little black flecks sprinkled throughout. My foodie antennas went up, and I ordered what she had — sans alcohol of course. The drink turned out to be a kiwi-lime daiquiri, a flavor combination my friend asked them to make after she saw the combination in a grocery store in the United States. Then in I stepped for a taste, and the rest as they say is history. It was a taste of cool, thick, frosty daiquiri deliciousness as far as I'm concerned, and made me wonder why nobody ever thought of combining the two flavors before. Unlike the strawberry or strawberry-mango version, the drink was not at all sweet, nor was it sour, but the taste of the lime came through, and brightened up the entire drink which made for a refreshing change from the ordinary. Unlike a pineapple which you can say tastes like a pineapple, or an apple that tastes like an apple — except for the grapple, which looks like an apple but tastes like a grape — when one bites into a kiwi fruit you can get a taste of sweet and tart, with a combination of other fruit flavors like strawberries, melons and nectarines, so that made the drink that much more unique with the lime flavor pulling all those flavors together. It seems I'm going to be pulling over into the bank's parking space a lot, because I've got to exhaust my taste for the kiwi-lime concoction. And as the days heat up, this will be the perfect way to cool down. If you haven't had a good daiquiri in a while, and I don't mean that crap you get out of the machine — I 'm talking about a good old honest-to-goodness drink made with fresh fruit and blended in the blender, then, maybe it's time to pull over to the bar on the Cable Beach strip, and give it another try. In these hot days of summer, it's going to be well worth the trip. Actually, with a variety of fresh fruit laid out, the men at the daiquiri bar can whip up just about any combination you can dream up. If you can dream it, they can achieve it. It's just a matter of you telling them what you want. As I spoke to Nicholai, he made himself his drink of choice, a concoction that included peanuts, and coconut amongst some other stuff that immediately screamed recipe for an instant tummy ache, but I had to remind myself that we all have our tastes, and that was Nicholai's.
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