Post #237412 by Swanky on Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:39 AM

On 2006-06-10 16:17, mauimama wrote:
I just got back from Maui, came across this site and thought I'd share a Tatto rum recipe! A restaurant over there has the best drink with Tattoo rum...called a Tattoo Tiki, it's a varation of a Mai Tai..It's big..probaby a 20 or 22oz drink, fill with ice, and:

1 oz. Parrot Bay
1 oz. Captains Spiced Rum
fill with equal parts pineapple and orange juice
float Tattoo Rum (1/2 oz.- 3/4 oz. ??)
Garnish with Pineapple slice and cherry

I haven't made this drink at home yet (can't find any Tattoo around!) but if my ol' bartending skills are up to speed.. that should be the right recipe! Enjoy

Hey! A recipe to feed two repulsive rum variants to guests with no discrimination in taste! You could make a batch of something good like a Test Pilot and a batch of these and anyone that sips on the Test Pilot and gags can have it taken away and be lead to the other "thing." Have this party outside, away from your precious tiki items that they will make fun of and break.

Sorry mauimama. We take our drinking very seriously here and your recipe is way off the mark. And calling it a Mai Tai is wrong. You order a Mai Tai at 99.9999% of bars and you get something like what you described. That is not a Mai Tai. And it's a real shame that people think it is. Sort of like what Party City calls "tiki" which is pretty awful and yet has become a major image of tiki to the public now. I refer mainly to the awful colorful tiki face things they sell.

Try a real Mai Tai and you'll see the difference.