RIO'S SUGARCANE JUICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 231, 30 September 1929, Page 9

RIO'S SUGARCANE JUICE.

GIVES WAY TO COCKTAILS. The old sugarcane juice establishment ill the arcade of the Avenida Hotel, at Rio de Janeiro has gone out of business, another index of the growing popularity of the cocktail and the decline in the demand for the national product. ' For a generation the sugarcane establishment was in business and until recently it was a thriving business. One could walk in and see the canestalks being fed into the grinders and could drink the fresh product, or, if preferred, take a glass which had been iced. The marble counter on which coins were dropped to verify whether false or true (by the "ring") has been worn thin by the millions of coins which clinked on it since the place opened. But now if one wants a glass of sugarcane one has to go out to the suburbs, where foreign influence is less marked, to get it. The Avenida sugarcane place has gone. In one section of it is a popcorn establishment with popcorn machines made, in the United States. In another is a lottery agency. A third division is a cigar stand.