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the recipe calls for "flaernum"... I googled it and there are only 12 hits on the entire web. I think it could not be right.
The ingredient is called "Falernum". It is available in limited supply throughout the US. Contact your local distributor. I recently bought a case of John D. Taylor Velvet Falernum from a store in the midwest. Falernum is used in many wonderful Tiki cocktails, but not the Mai Tai. With respect to the opinion above, there is only one Mai Tai. It was invented, as shown in the article, by Trader Vic. Don the Beachcomber invented many wonderful drinks, some using Falernum. However, he did not invent the Mai Tai. And contrary to popular belief, a Mai Tai contains no pineapple. Making a drink called a Mai Tai and using different ingredients is like making a Singapore Sling using Rum and Coke. Unfortunately, the Mai Tai is one of those popular drink names that is thrown around casually by many drinking establishments.
Anyway, Vic’s lime-orange-almond flavor blend with medium and dark rums is one of the world’s best tastes. The article should reflect the fact that the “1944” recipe is the type of Mai Tai that delivers that. 96.90.200.185 (talk) 23:06, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
The article states "An Internet search for references coupled with the word "rum" shows 40,600 hits for "Maitai" and 38,400 hits for "Mai Tai", so correct usage for this drink can apparently be either one word or two."
Well, I did Google "maitai rum", and actually got a lot of hits that actually use "mai tai". So I Googled
I got 165,000 hits; then I tried
and got 9,250 hits (as well as a query from Google asking if I really meant "mai tai"), and some of those entries were camel-case (ambiguous). So using the famed Google test, it seems the two-word version is preferred almost 18 to 1. Just to be on the safe side, I checked Oxford, Merriam-Webster, and American Heritage online; they only list the two-word version. So I'm pulling the spelling sentence. Cheers. --SigPig 06:29, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Incidently the tahitian word is not "maitai" but "maita'i" ! where you find a glottal stop between the second a and i and you can easily understand that when you discover that the same word is "meitaki" in Marquesan language or "maitaki" in Cook islands maori.... stefjourdan@caramail.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.3.229.26 (talk) 18:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
The drink in the photo was obviously not made from either the IBA or the Trader Vic recipe. I turned up a possibility on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kchrist/2980427956/ Rees11 (talk) 00:04, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
I added a photo taken at Trader Vic'sKevin Crossman (talk) 22:14, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
An anonymous user changed the "purported" place of invention from Trader Vic's in Oakland to 555 California St office in San Francisco. A small amount of googling didn't turn up any such suggestion before that edit was made (it has been repeated many times since, however, including on some menus). Also of note, the office building at 555 California Street wasn't there in 1944. So, I reverted, without the passive voice, and with a citation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElApuesto (talk • contribs) 01:32, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
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I removed the recipe from the article, arguing that there are many different recipes, but it was returned with the claim that this is the "official" one. Since the article says two places claim to have invented the drink, with very different recipes, it's kind of weird (at least) to say there's an "official" recipe. So why is this particular one listed - and where does it come from, anyway? There's no source.
I would prefer to remove it - the article has already given an indication of the typical ingredients and people can find recipes very easily online - but at the very least we need to give the direct source. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:58, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
I have a 437 page “Trader Vic Bartender’s Guide” reprint from 1948 (originally published in 1947) that has no reference to a Mai Tai. I also have an original 1946 copy of “Trader Vic’s Book of Food and Drink”, again, with no reference to a “Mai Tai”. Buggmann 55 (talk) 18:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
To return to a discussion from a year ago, we still have a detailed but unsourced recipe, in an article which talks about many different recipes. With no indication of why this particular recipe is given, I will remove it. If you think it should be there, it needs a source to show its historical importance, not just one way to make it - because we are not a cookbook: Wikipedia:NOTCOOKBOOK - DavidWBrooks (talk) 19:47, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
@Kevdo: We don't remove properly sourced material just because we disagree with it. If you'd like to add an opposing view, please do so, with a proper source citation (in the article, not in the edit summary). GA-RT-22 (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
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