“Been to Barbados”

Have you “been to Barbados?”

I am reading “And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails ” by Wayne Curtis, a book suggested by Carlton Grooms of “Coastlines and Tan Lines.”  I just came across a passage where the author recounts that Benjamin Franklin, the publisher of the “Pennsylvania Gazette,” printed up 228 different words and phrases as slang for being drunk.  My favorite: “Been to Barbados.”  The lovely rum punch above is the best on the island of Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, found at Hemmingway’s.