On 2010-03-30 15:57, artsnyder wrote:
Tiki-San:
Since we recently have been thinking about and have tried out something similar, I think I have an idea how they might be doing it. Usually people drinking out of hollowed-out pineapples wave them around like a mug. Here, however, everybody still holds on to the plates that their pinas sit on. Why? Perhaps because if they did not the glass will fall out through the bottom, from which point the pina was hollowed. The triangular hole is just for the straw and not to put the drink through, the drink already have been loaded and then the pina seated over it.
I hope that somebody has come up with the real answer. Everybody there knows it. Then we can try it at DTB. The conclusion that we've reached for ourselves is to purchase some ceramic pinas to drink Donn's Pi-Yi from (Of course we have his original formula, double checked against the bartender who originally prepared it. Unfortunately, the ceramic will never be as cool as a real pineapple, but you will know that that whole beautiful pina will not be wasted on your one drink, and that a part of your drink won;t be left soaked into the pina, or the whole thing slip out and hit the floor, etc.
You'll be seeing the new Pi-Yi mug soon, right after Donn's Coconut Mug and "Crazy Al's" new take on a charicature mug that looks more like Donn.
Mahalo,
Art Snyder, Owner
Don The Beachcomber, Surf City USA

On 2010-03-30 15:57, artsnyder wrote:
Usually people drinking out of hollowed-out pineapples wave them around like a mug. Here, however, everybody still holds on to the plates that their pinas sit on. Why? Perhaps because if they did not the glass will fall out through the bottom, from which point the pina was hollowed. The triangular hole is just for the straw and not to put the drink through, the drink already have been loaded and then the pina seated over it

On 2010-03-31 08:47, Iniquitiki wrote:
The tops of the pineapples were removed and the pineapple hollowed from the top.
The umbrellas you see helped to pin the tops back on after the drinks were poured in.
A napkin was dropped in the bowl and then the pineapple placed on top of that. I believe
to help keep the pineapple from sliding around and possibly for in case of leak control.

And the special cocktails were quite delicious.