Post #301410 by bb moondog on Tue, Apr 24, 2007 7:21 AM

poked it with a STICK i did....
I am kinda BETWEEN these factions here--bad is BAD (Tommy Bahama certainly proved THAT this weekend!) but newbies here DO take a real THRASHING just because they express a certain amount of NAIVETY to what is pretty much a lost art of crafting ACTUAL COCKTAILS...you go out to a ny CIVILIAN BAR (non-TIKI) and its a CRAPSHOOT as to what you're gonna get when you ask FOR ANY of these ancient concoctions...there was a thread once on the tiki road trip site that rated Mai-Tais at every stop he made---and the standard for THAT drink certainly got lost in the shuffle over the years! Just that all the Falernum/orgeat/orange liqueur talk that seems to be MINUTELY picked over DOES strike a few of us BETWEENERs (and YES I HATE buffettization--keep it Denny or at least Combustible Edison!) as a bit OBSESSIVE. Some of the cheaper products thrown in a Coke are just FINE..its just you wouldn't wanna SIP them. ..but you don't always have the TIME or WILL to drink straight liquor of ANY kind--if you do more power to ya though

[ Edited by: bb moondog 2007-04-24 07:23 ]