I only have a mixed drink about every couple of years or so. Don’t worry. I have already met my lifetime quota for alcohol consumption so I don’t have any catching up to do. I am not a connoisseur. My plan: 2 parts coconut milk (not coconut cream or coconut juice but rather the stuff they sell next to the almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc.), 2 parts Sunkist orange soda, and 1 part Mount Gay rum. I haven’t made it yet but I think I’ll start as soon as I post this. Maybe I’ll call it a Gay Colada.
Kathleen Madigan would probably call that a Monkey Rum Punch. Lewis Black would probably call it a Monkey-fuck Rum Punch.
Sounds like a orange creamsickle.
Use Tang. Will taste better than Sunny-D. IMO
Remember orange Julius. Same idea.
I’d call it a Danny 
I’m not into drink mixed with “milk”. Except for a White Russian, once per decade.
It’s not to my taste but if it sounds good to you, go for it. Better yet, call over the barman and spell out the recipe while playing high stakes poker with a collection of spies and villains.
Stranger
Sunkist orange soda is not the same thing as Sunny-D.
Oh, ok. It’s fizzy soda. Gotcha
Let us know how it tastes.
I added a couple of drops of vanilla extract. I could definitely taste the rum and the rum did not taste like kerosene. I enjoyed it but I don’t know if it was “good” or not because I don’t have any lifetime experiences to compare it with.
I still have lots of rum left. Should I try it with actual orange juice and half and half? Not today, maybe in a week or two.
Such a mixture might become lumpy if not prepared properly and consumed quickly. This is because the acids in the orange juice (mostly citric acid) lowers the pH and causes the proteins in the milk (mostly casein) to denature. A denatured protein unfolds from its original configuration and is free to “stick” to other unfolded proteins in such a way as to cause lumpiness.
ETA: Maybe I should just mix rum and orange sherbet.
I think vanilla is one of the secret ingredients in Orange Julius, so you’re in good company.
Definitely a major part of the appeal and not really a secret.
I used to love Orange Julius as a kid and would get one on every infrequent trip to the mall, and then finally got a recipe to make them in 3rd grade. I kept upping the vanilla content to ridiculous amounts until I got in trouble for depleting the kitchen stock too often.
Stranger
Probably had a light buzz going, too, if it was actual vanilla extract.
If so, probably more from the copious amounts of refined sugar than the small amount of vodka in the vanilla extract. The linked recipe says 1/4 cup of sugar but I recall it being 1/2 cup. I’m pretty sure that the Orange Julius chain was just a front by the Sugar Association to get Americans hooked on sugar (outside of the South where their ‘tea’ is basically a delivery vehicle for a nearly solid colloid of refined sugar), and if they could have figured out how to freebase it the way the Tobacco Institute did with nicotine they would have done so.
Stranger
Well, it does have at least 35% abv (the real stuff.) It was enough to stave off the shakes when I had nothing in the house and was jonesing for a drink to calm me down in my hard-drinking days. Depends on what you mean by “ridiculous amounts.”
Sugar, on the other hand, never really did anything to me as a kid in terms of activity levels. I sometimes wonder if that whole idea is overblown, or if I’m just not sensitive to it (which is a real possibility – I seem to not be sensitive to caffeine, for instance. Could drink a pot of coffee before bed and sleep fine.)