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PP Prikli Pear Tiki Socialite New Braunfels, Texas Joined: Jan 04, 2017 Posts: 982	PP Prikli Pear Posted posted on Tue, Feb 6, 2018 7:23 AM On 2018-02-06 05:10, howlinowl wrote: Just about every bar in a chickee hut (originally built by Seminole native-americans) is known as a "Tiki bar". Agreed. Chickee huts, palapas... pretty much anything that involves palm thatch is now automatically associated with tiki in the general public consciousness. I was guilty of the same before I discovered the wider universe of tiki culture. And it's easy to see why that'd be the case, but those ring toss games are beyond the pale. I've done some thinking on this regarding the Lagoon of Mystery. It was something of an eye-opener when I realized I could remove every Hawaiian/Polynesian reference, all the tikis and mugs and whatnot, and everyone would still view it as, and refer to it as a tiki bar. I could swap out all the rum for vodka (gak!) and remake it with a pre-Castro Cuban theme, or Brazilian, or Jamaican, and it wouldn't make any difference. In the cultural zeitgeist, any type of tropical bar (particularly those outdoors) is a tiki bar. At this point, I don't think that's ever going to change.

On 2018-02-06 05:10, howlinowl wrote:
Just about every bar in a chickee hut (originally built by Seminole native-americans) is known as a "Tiki bar".

Agreed. Chickee huts, palapas... pretty much anything that involves palm thatch is now automatically associated with tiki in the general public consciousness. I was guilty of the same before I discovered the wider universe of tiki culture. And it's easy to see why that'd be the case, but those ring toss games are beyond the pale.

I've done some thinking on this regarding the Lagoon of Mystery. It was something of an eye-opener when I realized I could remove every Hawaiian/Polynesian reference, all the tikis and mugs and whatnot, and everyone would still view it as, and refer to it as a tiki bar. I could swap out all the rum for vodka (gak!) and remake it with a pre-Castro Cuban theme, or Brazilian, or Jamaican, and it wouldn't make any difference. In the cultural zeitgeist, any type of tropical bar (particularly those outdoors) is a tiki bar. At this point, I don't think that's ever going to change.

Post #783676 by Prikli Pear on Tue, Feb 6, 2018 7:23 AM