Post #1622 by Trader Woody on Tue, May 21, 2002 9:35 AM

What some Buffetteers don't seem to have grasped is that there is quite a chasm between their idea of Tiki & the Polynesian Pop idea. Nobody is saying that you must adhere to some sort of Tiki-Nazi purity law. People can mix and match as much as they want, but a whole lot of us just have no interest in crappy 80's faux-Tiki-Caribbean cheese. Who wants a t-shirt with an alligator wearing Blues-Brothers sunglasses
on it when you can get a nice bark-cloth from the 60's at half the price?

Nobody minds what music people listen to when they sup their fogcutters (hell, I listen to far more guitar-noise than lounge), but people do have an interest in the detail of Tiki. Sadly what many
Buff-divers think is Tiki makes others crinkle up their noses.

To use the Jimmy's Buffet analogy, it's like the difference between a Crab leg po' boy and a cheap crab spread sandwich.

Trader Woody