When beverage experts were asked to create some cocktails in honour of National Sandwich Day they came up with one that was the beefiest.

The Cheeseburger Cocktail is one of the protein-rich drinks created at the challenge put up by the makers of Flor de Cana rum."Carnivorous cocktails are becoming the meat lover's libation," the New York Daily News quoted Trevor Burnett, of Tipicular Fixin's, a cocktail consultancy in Toronto and the creator of the Cheeseburger Cocktail, as saying. "It's like a meal in a glass," he said.