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Post #64220 by Basement Kahuna on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 1:42 PM

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Why I Like Home Tiki Bars
By TheMuggler

Tiki Central 500 word minimum essay
Professor H. Lemoore

I like home tiki bars because they are a lot of fun. You can keep all your bottles nice and neat in one place and whenever you want to make a drink like a fabulous Mai Tai or a tangy Zombie everything you need is in one handy place. Home tiki bars are the ideal way to make tiki drinks, which require a large amount of rums and mixers. Without a home tiki bar, these rums and mixers will take up too much room in your house and then other family members will complain and say things like “we look like alcoholics with all this rum lying around,” and “you are forbidden from buying any more liquor until you finish what you already have.” Home tiki bars give you a reason to have so many liquors because a good host always keeps his or her home tiki bar well stocked.

Home tiki bars are also fun because you can decorate them to reflect your own tiki tastes. You can put tiki masks on the walls or you can frame old tiki music album covers and hang them up for décor. You can light up a pufferfish and hang it from the ceiling too. It is important that you keep many ceramic tiki mugs available for both decoration and use in your home tiki bar. In some places, it is considered an insult to serve a tiki drink in a non-tiki drinking appliance. Dim lighting is very important as well. Nautical items like starfish and nets and floats also make great home tiki bar decorations. Decorating a home tiki bar is one of the most fun parts of owning a home tiki bar.

Home tiki bars make a great addition to any house. After a hard day at school it would be nice to relax at my own home tiki bar and pretend that I am fishing in a lagoon in Bora Bora, or sitting on the beach at Waikiki, looking at all the pretty hula girls. Home tiki bars help you escape into a fantasy world of your own creation, where you are the “big kahuna” as they say in Hawaii. If you are having trouble escaping with the help of the tiki bar setting, the liquor is always available to help.

Music is a very important aspect of a home tiki bar. It is very important to have the right mood setting music to insure maximum effect. Martin Denny, Les Baxter, and Arthur Lyman are the most popular choices for home tiki bars but there are many artists whose music will enhance the home tiki bar. Under no circumstances should a home tiki bar owner play Jimmy Buffet music as that will ruin the effect of the home tiki bar and possibly cause your guests to drink too much to escape the poor music.

In conclusion, I would like to say that everyone should have a home tiki bar because they are very, very, very, very, very, very nice.



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