Aww, thanks, Lindsey! :)

Yay! Be well.

Hooray! That is fabulous to hear, MarCat! I will be thinking happy thoughts of your great self-care as you continue with work on many fronts!

Hi Fiona! Thanks for visiting. The trusted system I use, which I still recommend, is OmniFocus: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus but the most important thing is that you find the combination of habits and tools that work best for you. I offer guidance on that in my book (link at upper right). You might also be interested in the talk linked in the post above because as important as it is to get things captured into your trusted system, it's also important to know that capturing the idea doesn't mean you've made an unbreakable pledge to do that thing. Clearing your mind isn't necessarily the same thing as making your to-do list. ;)

Here's a nice ad (whoever posted it says it's from 1969) for that Pindapoy juice: https://mendozantigua.blogspot.com/2015/06/jugo-natural-de-pomelo-en-lata-pindapoy.html

Worth noting: 1966. Kardahi, Mario. Tratado Práctico de Coctelería Pastelería y Afines. Buenos Aires: Editorial Escorpio. http://www.bibulo.us/section-6the-bibulous-bibliography.html page 78 "Principales Recetas de Enzo Antonetti Sin Alcohol PALOMITA En coctelera de metal viértanse sobre hielo en trozos: Bátase bien y sírvase en copa flauta. 50 grs. de naranja Pindapoy. 30 " de pulpa de fruitilla. 30 " de crema de leche." Other recipes in the book call for "de pomelo Pindapoy"—that is, Pindapoy brand grapefruit juice—so despite the name similarity, this is an orange juice mocktail. There are other drinks in the book calling for jugo de pomelo (most of them with the Pindapoy brand specified) but none of them bear any resemblance to the drink we know as the Paloma.

In October of 2016 I wrote a brief history of the Paloma, among the 50+ for the Elemental Cocktails app (which is still free!). Here's what I found: - I agree that the Wikipedia Evan Harrison stuff is bogus. - I have a lot of cocktail books both physical and digital and while I don't have specific notes about what I checked, my procedure in writing these short histories was to check the books first. My notes go quickly into grapefruit soda history research, so I think that was a negative. (Just took a quick keyword search again and no Paloma or grapefruit mention in 1905 Bebidas Americanas Refrescos y Licores from Spain, 1909 GASPARO Guia Practica del Cantinero from Mexico, 1915-Manual-del-Cantinero-by-John-Escalante from Cuba, 1933 JOSA Cocktelera Universal from Spain, or 1964 AMBA Manual del Bar from Argentina. 1937 Cocktails Bar La Florida from Cuba does have gin, sloe gin, and rum drinks with "grape fruit". (Ditto 1939 Floridita Cocktails.) - From my research it appears Squirt was established in 1938 in the US and introduced to Mexico in the 1950s. - I spoke with Jarritos and learned that Jarritos Taronja was introduced in 1960. - David Wondrich said his earliest references to the Paloma by name are from 1998-1999; the combo of tequila, lime & Squirt from the 1970s. He said, "From what I can see, Squirt was introduced to Mexico in the 1950s. Probably mixed with tequila from 1950s +1 day." My conclusion is that once grapefruit soda was available it was used as a mixer just as cola is in the Batanga. (Meehan's book was not out then and I'm grateful to him for getting the statement from Don Javier on his not being the creator of the Paloma.) Note that Lola Beltran's “Cucurrucucu Paloma” was a big hit in 1965.

Baffled but grateful is better than thwarted! :)