The behemoth tour bus carrying Miami Dolphins players, staff and some community partners turns off Calle Ocho onto Southwest 35th Street, and soon these folks that have no connection with Cuban culture are browsing the munchies on display at Versailles Restaurant’s famed Little Havana location — professional athletes acting like kids in a candy store as they decide between pastelitos filled with guayaba (guava) or the ones filled with guayaba y queso (guava and cheese).
Someone hands punter Matt Haack and kicker Jason Sanders a cup of iced coffee and tells them it’s a Cafe Cubano, which of course it is not, but they figure that out when they take a traditional tiny plastic cup and down the real sugary black brew — which a Google search reveals is twice as strong as American coffee.