Pour all ingredients except dark rum in a cocktail shaker halfway filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Float the dark rum on top. Garnish with a lime peel and a pineapple wedge. Serve with straw.

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The Mai Tai is an alcoholic cocktail purportedly invented at the Trader Vic's "Polynesian-style" restaurant in Oakland, California in 1944. Trader Vic's rival, Don the Beachcomber, claimed to have created it in 1933 at his then-new eponymous bar (later a famous restaurant) in Hollywood. Don the Beachcomber's recipe is more complex than that of Vic and tastes quite different. "Maita'i" is the Tahitian word for "good." The spelling of the drink, however, is two words. The Trader Vic story of its invention is that the Trader (Victor J. Bergeron) created it one afternoon for some friends who were visiting from Tahiti. One of those friends, Carrie Guild, tasted it and cried out: "Maita'i roa ae" (Literally "very good", figuratively "Out of this world The Best") hence the name. There are many recipes for Mai Tais. Seven of them, including three different versions of Trader Vic's, as well as the recipe of Don the Beachcomber, can be found at Wikibooks Mai Tai. The mai tai became a such a popular cocktail in the 1950's and 196...

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