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Enchanted Pineapple Juice A Tantalizing Memory I suppose I drank pineapple juice as a kid, but the first time my taste bud memory recalls the tantalizing experience was in the mid 1960s during my first visit to The Enchanted Tiki Room, an attraction at Disneyland Amusement Park in Anaheim, California.  The Tiki Room, which was sponsored by the Dole Pineapple Company, opened at Disneyland in 1963.  I visited the park for the first time a few months later. By that time, I was no longer a kid.     In fact, even though I was not yet old enough to vote, I was old enough to drink beer in a Kansas beer joint. Kansas didn’t ratify the 26 th  Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, until April 7, 1971.  And, it wasn’t until 1984 that Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which mandated that only those who had reached the age of 21 years could purchase and/or drink alcohol.  The 21-...