Confused with rums, and poor selection - Tiki Drinks and Food

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Thu, Aug 21, 2014 10:18 AM On 2014-08-21 09:04, Chip and Andy wrote: On 2014-08-21 06:59, Swanky wrote: IMO a Mai Tai is not your goal or your standard. I never touch those. There is gonna be a rumble in Tiki Town Tonight! First I'll let two others point out the folly of your words..... Starting with Dr Bamboo from 2010: "...The Mai Tai is one of a very small category of drinks I call "bulletproof." That is, you can give a drink of this type to virtually anyone and they'll like it." http://drbamboo.blogspot.com/2010/09/anatomy-of-drink-mai-tai.html And then there is the ever popular Joe Bob Briggs. This is a long read and I can't find a working link so I'll just quote it from the archives: If you don't read this know, mark it and come back, it is worth it! Joe Bob Briggs Joe Bob's Wild America The Great Mai Tai Hunt (Frat Parties Turned the Classic American Libation Into an Umbrella Drink. I Went to Find the Real Deal) by Joe Bob Briggs October/November 2000 ... The only reason the Mai Tai is so "popular" is because Don the Beachcomber passed away in 1989 and his empire closed with him. If there were no Don the Beachcomber, there would never have been a Trader Vic's and never a Mai Tai. Vic was a better business man and spread his cut-rate Don the Beachcomber knock off around the world and it has stayed around to this day. Vic himself would not have dared say his drinks were Donn's equals, let alone superior. The drink also became popular on Hawaii, where it was butchered and beaten and should be taken out back and shot, but not like a cocktail shot. Mai Tai is slang for fruit juice and rum with a dark floater. Why go for the hack trying to duplicate Donn's masterpieces when you can actually have the masterpieces he was trying to copy?

On 2014-08-21 09:04, Chip and Andy wrote:

On 2014-08-21 06:59, Swanky wrote:
IMO a Mai Tai is not your goal or your standard. I never touch those.

There is gonna be a rumble in Tiki Town Tonight!

First I'll let two others point out the folly of your words.....

Starting with Dr Bamboo from 2010: "...The Mai Tai is one of a very small category of drinks I call "bulletproof." That is, you can give a drink of this type to virtually anyone and they'll like it."

http://drbamboo.blogspot.com/2010/09/anatomy-of-drink-mai-tai.html

And then there is the ever popular Joe Bob Briggs. This is a long read and I can't find a working link so I'll just quote it from the archives: If you don't read this know, mark it and come back, it is worth it!

Joe Bob Briggs
Joe Bob's Wild America
The Great Mai Tai Hunt (Frat Parties Turned the Classic American Libation Into an Umbrella Drink. I Went to Find the Real Deal)
by Joe Bob Briggs
October/November 2000

...

The only reason the Mai Tai is so "popular" is because Don the Beachcomber passed away in 1989 and his empire closed with him. If there were no Don the Beachcomber, there would never have been a Trader Vic's and never a Mai Tai. Vic was a better business man and spread his cut-rate Don the Beachcomber knock off around the world and it has stayed around to this day. Vic himself would not have dared say his drinks were Donn's equals, let alone superior. The drink also became popular on Hawaii, where it was butchered and beaten and should be taken out back and shot, but not like a cocktail shot. Mai Tai is slang for fruit juice and rum with a dark floater.

Why go for the hack trying to duplicate Donn's masterpieces when you can actually have the masterpieces he was trying to copy?

Post #725883 by Swanky on Thu, Aug 21, 2014 10:18 AM