Post #148121 by Urban Tiki on Mon, Mar 21, 2005 9:44 AM

My $.02
I've lived in Florida, love Jimmy Buffet, and vacation almost every year in the Carribean. I love that tropical culture, but do not consider it Tiki.
Sure there's some overspill, but I do not get a Tiki vibe in the Bahamas or Key West, nor listening to Buffet or steel drum band, or sipping a Bahama Mama, a Yellow Bird, or Margarita.

I love that stuff, but would never have it at one of my tiki parties. However, if you choose to, that's your business- it's not my place to judge.

Sure, there are mixed cultures in the original tiki of the 40's, 50's, and 60's and thus, have been "grandfathered" into the Tiki culture but expanding other aspects of those cultures into Tiki is dilution IMHO, and too much of that in a public Tiki bar would turn me off. Anyone's private Tiki bar is their personal expression and beyond my right/desire to judge.

However, a really poorly made Mai Tai is another story, altogether. :lol:

P.S. I always appreciate Big Bro Tiki keeping the history straight. Someday, the BOT may very well be the Rosetta Stone of Tikidom.