Post #6466 by woofmutt on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 11:48 PM

Last week I had a dream where I was trying to make this Tiki drink for someone and things kept going wrong and it was taking longer and longer to get the drink to the person. Last night MY DREAM CAME TRUE!!!. A casual after work gathering and I was attempting to garnish the hell out of this hollowed out pineapple...The skins on the limes I was skewering bent the point on the skewer yet the skins were soft enough that two lime shell "cups" were mangled by the skewer so as to not hold the everclear I was going to set ablaze. The cherries I fished out of the one gallon jar looked all smashed and chewed on. Paper umbrellas wouldn't stay open. I finally got it all together and lit it and liquid flame washed down the side of the pineapple, then set the paper umbrella on fire (I always put the flame and umbrella at great distance from each other but this was just meant to be). A blast of hot air from me and the undesired flame was extinguished. The drink was delivered (the guests were Ordinarys so a hollowed out pineapple and a flaming garnish were enough to make them ooh and ahh) and I kept thinking how easy the wine set has it.