Post #460957 by The Gnomon on Thu, Jun 11, 2009 8:30 AM

On 2009-06-10 20:42, MadDogMike wrote:
As I understand, the main flavors are orange, almond, lime, and rum. I'm thinking orange sherbet, orgeat, lime syrup, rum syrup with mint leaves & maraschino cherries for a garnish. Just put out bottles of the syrups, people can decide their own proportions What do you think?

Being a Mai Tai fanatic, I would not be interested in anything called "Mai Tai" that had orange in it. Also, a Mai Tai is somewhat of a challenge to make right in the first place (until it becomes second nature), so anything as haphazard as allowing people to screw around with their own flavoring probably should not have Mai Tai in its name.

The dessert you are suggesting and the mix-and-match syrups sounds good. It just should go by a name that doesn't mislead anyone into thinking its supposed to be a reflection of a Mai Tai.

Why don't you call it a 'îlio hehena? (dog raving mad) *

*used my Hawaiian dictionary for that one, so it might not really make sense.

NOTE: the TC system keeps changing the "i" with the macron (straight line) over it into an "i" with a circumflex (inverted v) over it.

[ Edited by: The Gnomon 2009-06-11 08:33 ]