Post #386690 by teaKEY on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 4:16 PM

The tiki mugs are what drew me into tiki in the beginning and they were a introduction as to what new tiki could be. There is one well known tiki mug manufacture that pushes tiki in mug form. Actually the top two mug companies have the word tiki in their name and so the word tiki on the bottom of all their mugs. I picked up early on this that their mugs were not all tikis. In fact sometimes a majority of their mugs aren't tiki (semi-tiki or tiki) at all. They call their mugs tiki mugs and we all refer to them as tiki too. I think its a honorary title since it comes from these company. In fact I think all the majority and most minor mug makers have made "tiki" mugs where at least a couple of their mugs are not a tiki.

Non tiki "tiki mugs" are a must though for any tiki collection. First of all they are the better mugs. More expensive mugs. And all collections and bars need for a good break up of a pure brown tiki sea.

Vintage "tiki" mugs are the same way. There are mugs that are of a tiki and then "tiki" mugs that are consider worth collecting by us mug collects cause of their tiki ties. I think it has more to do with the ties to tiki than anything else. Sea horse mugs, severed heads, and skull mugs. All these non tiki, tiki mugs are from tiki bar. Its tiki for me and I think most of us, if it came from a tiki bar or looks good in your our tiki bar.

I think it kinda like the common saying, time to go to bed when you are already laying in bed, and you really mean time to go to sleep.

Maybe we can have fun stretching what tiki is if we all can remember what tiki was. I think all the old timers get both, I know I do.