March 25 - March31 , 2007!
I will bet that somewhere on this big blue marble, a confident girl-drinkin' man can order himself a really nice Mai Tai. Somewhere.
Unfortunately, the place where I have thrice been forced to drink a Mai Tai is not a place where one gets a really nice Mai Tai. Nothing against Hooligan's, a Superbar I adore, but until I did a web search for pictures of Mai Tais, I was under the impression that Mai Tais were the color of a brackish purple-grey bruise.
The Mai Tai (recipes will follow) actually doesn't sound that bad, and looks particularly good in the photo above: golden, with some duskiness towards the bottom of the nicely curvy glass, almost peachlike, almost sexy. In fact, the drink's name translates in Tahiti to "Very Good!" In Hooligan's, I'm afraid, the name means "Particularly Awful, Especially Considering How Expensive It Must Be!"
Strangely enough, the drink isn't actually Tahitian at all, having been invented at one of two rival Los Angeles Polynesian-themed restaurants. The Mai Tai, then, is another one of those things that isn't actually what it is typically thought to be (please consult table 1.a below).
Table 1.a
| What It Is | What It's Thought To Be | What It Actually Is | |
| Mai Tai | Hawaiian | Californian Mercantile | |
| Corned Beef and Cabbage | Irish | Jewish/Irish American | |
| Irony | Coincidence | Cosmic Discordance | |
| Greenland | Greenland | Iceland | |
| The Police | Punk | Pop, sometimes Ska | |
| Headcheese | Cheese | You'd Rather Not Know | |
| Jim Morrison | Mystical | Dead Hippy |
Important Links
- Mai Tai Recipes That Might Be Good
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