Who invented drink umbrellas

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A cocktail umbrella. Tantri Wija is a Seattle-based freelance writer. Reach her at Tantri. Posting comments is now limited to subscribers only. View subscription offers here. For more information, visit our FAQ's. He used to garnish his cocktails with a stick of sugarcane, but that was at the time that everybody was still smoking cigarettes. After they chewed on the sugarcane, they'd set it in the ashtrays, and he would have to scrub them clean.

So he came up with something new. Yee first used an orchid in his garnishes, but the umbrella is what really took off: "People really do call tiki cocktails 'umbrella drinks' now," says Berry.

The first cocktail to get an umbrella was the tapa punch, in , according to an article written by journalist Rick Carroll in So why were those little umbrellas hanging around? Berry surmises they were used as toothpicks and garnishes for food—or, possibly, "people put them in their hats!

Oh wait! We only just realized that Yee, who was born in , is still alive! We've reached out to him for comment, and will update this story when we hear back.

After decades of kitsch, does anyone actually like those little umbrellas? And people ask for them!