Puerto Rico, Scandinavia

We sometimes get ourselves into a bit of a pickle.  Lately, the gals in the kitchen have been working on a decadent summer cake, featuring both coconut and pineapple, cocktail umbrellas and cherries. 

In short, it is all pina colada, long evening nights and waiters with cheesy smiles and helpful pick up lines.

The problem is:  how do we link this to anything Scandinavian?  Okay, we could admit defeat and just say "it's a nice summer cake, eat it and don't ask questions" but it would be NICE to find a link to something Scandinavian.

Except we can't:  Pina Colada just isn't very Oslo or Northern.  At all.

Over to you, dear readers:  can you help?  There's a free lunch in it if we use your (however random) suggestion on how we can link pina colada to Scandinavia.

Here are some helpful hints and facts about pina colada that may or may not help at all:

• Pina Colada is the national drink of Puerto Rico
• The title of the cocktail means "strained pineapple".  The drink is usually made from pineapple juice, rum, cream of cocunut and ice. 
• Bronte has an uncle who once went to Puerto Rico on holiday (our only link so far)
• There is a Swedish band (Baby Alice) who made a song called Pina Colada Boy.  It's really, really bad.

Can you help make a bit of a link from Scandi Kitchen to Pina Colada?

Mail iloveherring@scandikitchen.co.uk

Comments

[Cecilia]

The link is so obvious - ICE!!!! The whole of Scandinavia is more or less full of ice and there is ice in the drink! :-)

[Schlagerfiasko]

Whenever someone says a Swedish band is really bad, I usually get ready to say that they're amazing.

But this is really bad.