Post #560069 by woofmutt on Fri, Oct 15, 2010 10:37 PM

No. But your footing is good.

I think your argument would qualify the Old Fashion as a nautical drink if there were such classification.

For true Tiki drinks I think a simple test might be:

Would this drink evoke a sense of a South Pacific tropical paradise?

In the case of the Old fashion I'd have to say no.

If you wanted to judge a drink's Tikiness based on it's importance in the golden age of Tiki you could include a large number of drinks under the Tiki umbrella.

The consumption of "regular" drinks was probably fairly high at Tiki joints back in the day. You can lead an indifferent husband to a Tiki bar but you can't make him not drink his standard scotch and soda.

But I think it would be goofy to attempt to argue that scotch and soda are a Tiki drink. Even if the scotch in question had a sailing ship on its label.

PS: I like rye as well and discovered that sipping a rye neat while drinking a lowly American swilsner actually makes the swilsner taste like a well thought out beer.