Post #680706 by Hale Tiki on Tue, Jun 4, 2013 3:59 AM

On 2013-06-04 03:53, tikiskip wrote:

Is there any Tiki in this book?

I know you probably didn't mean that to be funny, and to get the thread back on track, but I'll be damned if I didn't laugh VERY loudly when I read that.

So, if everyone is done derailing the topic into discussions of race, myself included, back to tiki.

It's really a fantastic bowl. I had never seen it until we went to Forbidden Island last year. One of the bartenders there, whose last night it was, was telling me about the history of the bowl, the problems they'd had with the mold, and that even FI only ended up with 5 bowls. I forget his name, and I lost his contact info, but I know that he moved to Bourbon & Branch. Anyway, when I was there last year, they were down to just the one bowl. I tried my hardest to buy it, offering ridiculous sums of money (I was a bit tipsy), but sure enough, no dice. I was surprised they even still let people use it, and was very happy to have drank from it. We had a wonderful night at FI, introducing a whole group of people to tiki (and a beautiful Colombian woman to the "yinzer" accent). I'm sure many, many fond memories were shared over that bowl.

To it's safe return.

[ Edited by: Hale Tiki 2013-06-04 04:03 ]