Post #575765 by Bora Boris on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 8:15 AM

On 2011-02-12 06:41, Wayfarer wrote:
I think the Philippines has some claim to tiki- after reading Beachbum Berry I get the impression that without Filipino bartenders tropical drinks would be up the Sh-- Straits without a paddle.

I've transited those straits by the way, we get hazardous duty pay for it.

This is where it gets weird Wayfarer - Filipino Bartenders and Filipino Carvers (in the United States) are good but imported mass produced Philippine carvings are not good and while the Philippines are in the South Pacific and (Some citizens) consider themselves to be Pacific Islanders I guess they're too far west of New Guinea to be considered part of Polynesia. :o

Thanks for bringing this up I've been curious about if for a while but I wanted to start it with "So let me get this straight..Filipino bartenders and Filipino Carvers are cool but anything else from the Philippines is bad? and what's with New Guinea? Old Guinea must've really sucked if you'd want to start over in that place!" :lol: