Post #218826 by woofmutt on Sat, Mar 4, 2006 7:20 AM

First off, of course I HEART TIKI MUGS. So relax and go check yer blood pressure. Still unconvinced? Read this lil poem I writed just now:

Tiki mugs is neat!
Tiki mugs is joy!
A swell ceramic treat
For grownup girls and boys!

But Tiki mugs ain't so great when it comes to drink presentation. You miss a lot when drinking out of a Tiki mug. The light play through the ice and drink. The condensation on the side of the glass making an Impressionism like "Portrait Of A Drink" for your gaze to get lost in. The way a cherry or submerged slice of fruit looks when it's down in the ice and drink half pressed up against the glass. The transformation of the real world when viewed through the bottom of a glass filled with ice and drink as you tilt one back. And the color of something like a Blue Hawaiian is completely pointless confined within the opaque walls of a Tiki mug. Maybe worst of all, with a Tiki mug you miss one of the most beautiful drink visions anyone can serve anywhere: A dark rum float filling the top of the glass and transforming the color of the drink as the dark rum slowly descends to the bottom.

And Tiki mugs can be a pain when trying to garbage up a drink with fruit and doo-dads...The thick walls of the mug can split a fruit slice and you need a long skewer in order to get a nice spear of fruits to rise above the top of the glass in order to be seen. You sometimes need longer straws than usual due to the height of the mug.

Cleaning 'em can be difficult. Some might chip easily. It's hard to get the bottoms of the mug cleaned out sometimes without a longer scrubbing device. You can't stack 'em in the dish rack as easily as glasses. (I just remembered that a lot of the world uses dishwashers, so maybe it's an easier task.)

So, Tiki mugs ain't so great for a lot of drinking situations. But please, before you despair and decide to trash your collection contact me first to see if I can lighten your burden by taking a few off your hands.