Post #593445 by Swanky on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 9:43 AM

On 2011-06-12 06:44, teaKEY wrote:
Is it even feasible for a new Tiki fan to start collecting vintage mugs nowadays?

I don't want vintage for the most part cause its extremely over price. Why would I want to pay $100.00 of a mug that was free with a drink ($0.00), stolen ($0.00), a 1990s ebay find ($2.00) or a garage sale find ($2.00).

When I can buy a $15.00 Tiki Farm mug for the price of $15.00.

That is completely false. Vintage mugs can be had for 50 cents in most thrift stores still. I don't even look much and still pass over mugs for less than $5 all the time. There are high priced vintage, but the same is true for new. Check your Ebay completed tiki mugs for reference.

There was a time when freaks and geeks like me and Bigbro were trying hard to at least keep the term "Tiki Mug" meaning some somewhat definable thing, while at the same time "Tiki Mug" manufacturers were defining the term with their products. And, well, they won. Just like Party City defined Tiki for people too.

AND IT SUCKS. THEY ARE WRONG.

I sincerely doubt that Tiki Farm has produced more mugs in their decade of manufacture for the collectors and a handful of restaurants than were made for the hundreds or perhaps thousands of Tiki joints that existed from the 1940s to the 1980s. That is not even imaginable. Perhaps if you want to get at individual designs, it gets closer?

But we at least still have people like Martin Cate and others out there on the fore-front of the "Tiki Bar" defining the drinks in a way that is correct. However, there are plenty out there trying to screw that up too.

Gotta fight the good fight. The Rum Revolution started June 11th, at 5:30PM Eastern Time at Hukilau. Just say no to bad rum! To flavored rum! and to bad drinks!.