Post #473660 by telescopes on Sat, Aug 1, 2009 7:57 PM

On 2009-08-01 16:00, VeroTiki wrote:
I agree with Captain Morgan. I would love to walk into any neighborhood bar and be able to get a real Tiki cocktail--not premade slop, or have the bartender looking at me with deer in the headlight eyes when I ask for a Mai Tai.

VeroTiki, I'll take this a step farther. I'd like to go to a neighborhood bar and get a "decently" made cocktail. It doesn't have to be tiki by chance. What about a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned made using orange bitters? What about a whiskey sour using real lemons?

Yes, there are some great bartenders in America but try finding them. The thing about a great tiki palace is that the drinks are made correctly. The happen to be tiki, but the point remains, a sense of craftsmenship embues.

Poorly made drinks are the rot of America.

As for FrankieGillettes line, "If you're in the club pal, I don't want to join. Waddle on in your dockers & Hawaiian shirts until all the tiki joints until you squeeze the last bit of
hipness from that scene. Yes, enjoy it while it lasts "

This line only works when you quote Will Rogers. It's "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member."

Try humility.

[ Edited by: telescopes 2009-08-01 20:01 ]