Post #318737 by finkdaddy on Sun, Jul 15, 2007 4:17 AM

It's funny. I have a real opinion on this subject now. I never understood the Buffet threads. I think I even defended him once. I grew up in Wisconsin so I was never exposed to him really. The only thing you would ever hear from him was a very occasional Margaritaville, and not very often. So I had no real opinion either way. I didn't understand what got people so worked up. Big deal, right? Who cares? Then I moved to South Florida and got a job as a bartender at the Hutchingson Island Marriott Resort Lattitudes Tiki Bar. As I'm sure you Floridians can imagine, there is nothing even remotely tiki about it. No tikis of course, but not even any bamboo or thatch or anything. I make about 15 gazillion strawberry daiquiris in a shift and about 6 gazillion of those are virgin. For those of you who want the recipe it's simple: 1.25 oz of Bacardi, big splash of strawberry-flavored liquid, and press the number 1 on the blender. To double the recipe, just press 2 on the blender. Anyway, it's buffet on the radio all day long. Then Bob, an older gentleman who walks around like he owns the place, plays them all live for hours on end. Before I moved here I had no opinion, but now, I swear to God, if Jimmy Buffet walked into my bar I would jump the bar and strangle him until the demon was dead. Every time some one orders a Mai Tai and I'm forced to mix Malibu and fruit juice I curse the name of Jimmy Buffet and try to ignore the pain in my head. Oh, the humanity. :cry: