The beauty of punch, aside from serving a crowd, is that it can be made in advance. No fetching drinks or shaking up cocktails on the fly — the work is already done. But when made too far in advance, especially if your punch includes juice or another sugary drink, the flavors will start to taste off and any ice will melt and start to water it down. Follow this tip: Take advantage of this big-batch drink’s make-ahead advantages, but within a reasonable amount of time. Prepare punch the morning of when you plan to serve it, and no more than a day ahead of time.
The Punchbowl National Cemetery is a quiet place of beauty and reflection where visitors can honor the fallen members of our Nation’s Military.
The “punchbowl” from which the cemetery gets its name was created anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 years ago by a volcanic blast that left a crater giving the punchbowl its unique shape and name. For thousands of years, ancient Hawaiians called the Punchbowl, Puowaina, which translates to “Hill of Sacrifice” as it was used as an ancient burial ground and place of sacrifice hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
Built in 1948, the 116-acre cemetery just outside of Honolulu is home to more than 25,000 soldiers that fought and perished in numerous engagements around the Pacific from Pearl Harbor, WWII, and Guam.
Jungle Juice was born out of the necessity to keep sobriety at bay by soldiers located in jungles abroad, specifically U. S. soldiers stationed in the Southwest Pacific during WWII. The United States did not provide its soldiers with booze, so being Americans, they channeled their industriousness and made their own hooch.
They fermented anything sugar-based they could get their hands on, and the result was often a boozy, swampy-looking 100-proof elixir of rum punch that was sure to get you good and smashed.
They mixed their swamp water with whatever they could find, often lemonade, and thus, the birth of our nation's go-to party beverage was born.
The scene in BACK TO THE FUTURE with Biff spiking the punch seemed sort of small and unnecessary, easy to gloss over as just filler for time. But it’s actually pretty important.
After Biff is shown 'spiking' the punch with alcohol, George is shown drinking the punch before confronting Biff in the parking lot. It may be that George's uncharacteristic courage in the original scene is attributable to drinking Biff's spiked punch.