Armando Fraga tells that Don Lucas de Palacio, a writer and professional in the hotel and restaurant industry, assured the folksy paternity over mixed drinks or cocktails.
When the English merchants of precious woods arrived in Campeche, in the time of Queen Victoria, they quenched their thirst at the doors of the taverns, in the narrow streets of the town or in the portals of the main square.
At that time, unmixed wines and spirits were drunk, but sometimes they drank what was known as Catalan, rum or other alcohol "dracs", which were mixed drinks, stirring them with a metal spoon - which could be bad. flavor to the drink- or wood, or also chopsticks. The word "drac" was probably a corruption of Drake, the British sea adventure hero.
On one occasion, a waiter who served drinks in a tavern used to prepare them thin, fine, smooth roots of a plant that there they called, because of their peculiar shape, “cock's tail”, in English cock’s tail; henceforth they ordered him not to serve "dracs" but cocktails, and hence the word went around the world.
