Hispanohablantes.
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Hispanohablantes.
What is the plural of "cuba libre"? I remember that Che called for "Uno, dos, muchos Vietnam," not "Vietnames" but I thought maybe Cuba would be more easily pluralized. Do I ask for dos cubas libres or dos cuba libres? Or do I take the coward's way out and ask for una cuba libre and, when I get it, smack my head and ask for una cuba libre más?And how about piñas coladas? Is that right?
Edited by: José Martí
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"Cuba libres."In fact, in Spanish it's sometimes written as a single word, cubalibres, when referring to the drink.
(Worst. Cocktail. Ever. But de gustibus etc.)
And, yes, piñas coladas. You can have more than one pineapple, but there's only one Cuba.
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In 1991, I was in Cuba and whilst in Havana stayed at the Havana Libre. I don't know about now, but back then you were not supposed to use the National currency, you got mickey mouse monopoly tourist money. This money could only be used in tourist shops and tourist taxis, which meant you couldn't use regular shops and buses. It was the time of the first Gulf War, (Saddam was in Kuwait), George Bush snr, Stormin' Norman and Colin Powell were the Generals in charge. It wasn't until I left Cuba that I heard there had been a war which of course was over by then and Saddam had gone back to Baghdad8
but there's only one Cuba.There's only one country called Cuba (and the drink's name refers to that country) but there are several places called Cuba. :) You can find here a list with some of them.
Talking about the names given to a cubalibre in some of the Spanish speaking countries, you could take a look at the names listed in Wikipedia. BTW, I don't know in other Spanish speaking countries but, in Spain, cubalibre has masculine gender so un cubalibre.
