In search of a banana monkey

[This post can be blamed almost entirely on the current heat wave we are experiencing here in Israel.  Sanity will (hopefully) return when the weather breaks.]

Yesterday I put up a guest post over at The Muqata (Jameel is on an enforced break having been chased away from his 'puter by his wife) with a couple of my favorite cold beverage suggestions to beat the heat.

Almost as soon as I'd finished posting it I wandered over to Le Blog D'Elisson and noticed that he'd posted an enticing description of the tropical drinks he and his wife (SWMBO) had tippled while on vacation recently in Mexico (including a recipe for something called a Negroni Cocktail). 

As most of you know, I'm no stranger to tropical drinks... especially those of the umbrella variety.  But I have to admit that, in addition to being unfamiliar with the above-mentioned Negroni Cocktail... I'd never heard of one of the other drinks Elisson mentioned; A Banana Monkey.

The description immediately caught my eye:  "[an] indulgent tropical drink made with bananas, chocolate syrup, and Kahlua. I would order mine with an additional shot or two of rum."

Oh sweet jeebus... a drink that contains all three major food groups?!  How did I manage to miss this one in college?!  I'm obviously not counting the 4th food group - meat products - here since that constitutes more of a snack catagory than an actual food group.

Anyway... I immediately set about scouring the Web for a reliable recipe and came up with a startling variety. Some of them even omitted [gasp] chocolate syrup!

Anyway, If you didn't catch it here way back when, you can wander over to The Muqata and pick up a nifty tip I offered on how to keep the ice from diluting your ice coffee.  As a bonus, I even posted the official recipe for treppenwitz's Ersatz Kahlua.

As to the whole Banana Monkey thing... there are way too many variations out there to pick just one for inclusion here.  But you can bet I'm gonna work my way through the most promising ones.