Post #202380 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 9, 2005 2:36 PM

ACTUALLY it is my belief that the pupus themselves, skewered onto the toothpicks, were then stuck into the holes to present the tidbits, to be picked off and put into the mouth. This came from skewering real pineapples first as part of Luau table presentations, of course.
I have a vintage monkeypod Tiki screwed on a leaf shaped platter with toothpick holes in his head, and between his teeth. He looks like an African nail fetish when when made up with pupus.