Compartir 'Gran Canaria's National Drink: The Cubata'

There is only one local drink in Gran Canaria and it isn't that lurid blue thing served in resort bars. You know the one: It comes in an outsize hurricane glass with a parrot-shaped stirrer, half a fruit bowl and sometimes, if it's your birthday, a sparkler. Often it is called the "Gran Canaria". I've lived here for 30 years and have never seen a Canarian drink anything with Blue Curacao in it. N…