First Mention of a Tiki Drink in a Movie? - General Tiki

H HotelCharlieEcho Member Joined: Jan 22, 2013 Posts: 49	H HotelCharlieEcho Posted posted on Mon, May 22, 2017 4:56 PM Apologies if this belongs somewhere else - I did a quick search and couldn't find anything quite on point. I was re-watching a favorite movie recently when this question came to my mind. The movie was I Walked with a Zombie from 1943, and one of the characters mentioned that she had tried a drink called a Zombie. In the scene, the main character asks a doctor: "Just what is a zombie?" The doctor answers: "A ghost, a living dead. It's also a drink." The main character replies: "Yes, I tried one once, but there wasn't anything dead about it." Indeed! By my count the Zombie drink had been around for about nine years by the time the movie came out - given that Don the Beachcomber's place was popular with Hollywood types, that might seem like a long time; however, having watched quite a few movies from the '30's and '40's it struck me that I couldn't remember an earlier reference to a tiki drink in a movie. Can any tikiphile movie buffs think of an earlier reference to tiki drinks in a movie?

Apologies if this belongs somewhere else - I did a quick search and couldn't find anything quite on point.

I was re-watching a favorite movie recently when this question came to my mind. The movie was I Walked with a Zombie from 1943, and one of the characters mentioned that she had tried a drink called a Zombie. In the scene, the main character asks a doctor: "Just what is a zombie?" The doctor answers: "A ghost, a living dead. It's also a drink." The main character replies: "Yes, I tried one once, but there wasn't anything dead about it."

Indeed!

By my count the Zombie drink had been around for about nine years by the time the movie came out - given that Don the Beachcomber's place was popular with Hollywood types, that might seem like a long time; however, having watched quite a few movies from the '30's and '40's it struck me that I couldn't remember an earlier reference to a tiki drink in a movie.

Can any tikiphile movie buffs think of an earlier reference to tiki drinks in a movie?

Post #776166 by HotelCharlieEcho on Mon, May 22, 2017 4:56 PM