Post #296473 by TikiGardener on Mon, Apr 2, 2007 8:01 PM

On 2007-04-02 09:44, bigbrotiki wrote:
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Tiki has a specific set of icons, Pirate has its specific set of icons, Nautical has its own catalog of symbols. All these overlap to some degree, but a sea food restaurant with ships wheels, fishnets, star fish, fishing floats and only one or two Oceanic carvings is still a nautical, not a Tiki place.

In turn, a Tiki bar without any nautical accents that create the flavor of the Seven Seas lacks in atmosphere. It is here where Tiki style's sub-styles, the Beachcomber style and the Trader style (which all merge in POLYNESIAN POP), come into play. Without them, Tiki style remains academic.

Now why is that so hard to understand!? :)

PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEECISELY!!!!!!!!!!
And to up the ante. My as of yet unembodied tiki bar will have a name that if researched will reveal that it IS NOT Polynesian in origin. But it will have a back history of a man who traveled all through the Pacific during a time of great peril and violence. So I am kind of interested to see if after I finally flesh it out, and its name is actually traced to a different Pacific culture, will it be considered "tiki"?

And if you look back through the archives, you'll see me pointing out many years ago the tiki/carribean rum connection. Heck some of the early Trader Vic's or Trader Dick's or whichever Trader menus and illustrations sure look to be Caribean Islands and not Polynesian...

[ Edited by: TikiGardener 2007-04-02 20:03 ]