So he mixed one of his and circulated it for comments. The following Sunday, Tobias returned to her bar and announced to the patrons on hand that he had finally broken her secret. There we went to work trying to match her flavor as closely as possible with his own recipe, which he finally worked out to be “4-1-1-1” ratio-four parts pineapple, one part cream of coconut and one part orange juice adding Pusser’s Rum to suit. One late Sunday afternoon, after a morning spent “killing the pain,” Tobias somehow managed to get one of her concoctions back through the surf and over the gunwale into his boat, and ultimately into his kitchen on Tortola where he lives.

The fact that Tobias had gone to The Admiralty Board of the Royal Navy and gained permission to commercialize the rum in 1979 made him curious about this deliciously concocted recipe made with Pusser’s Rum.ĭaphne Henderson and Charles Tobias became good friends, but in spite of their close friendship, and no matter how he tried, she refused to divulge her secret recipe for the cocktail. Boaters, including Pusser’s founder, Charles Tobias, came from distant places to sample her version of the Painkiller for which she’d become locally famous. It was owned by an English lady, Daphne Henderson. Of course, your dollars get wet, hence the name “Soggy Dollar Bar.” There’s no dock, so the usual way in is to swim. A version of the classic Pusser’s Painkiller® had its start at the six-seat Soggy Dollar Bar on a long stretch of white sand beach at White Bay on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands.

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