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If you have ever enjoyed a Mystery Bowl<\/a> at the Mai Kai<\/a>, or Volcano Bowl<\/a> at other tiki establishments, you know that you must have a really long straw to both participate and not catch your hair on fire. In preparing for the luau at the Swank Pad next month, I began searching for extra long straws online. I found some at Dynasty Wholesale<\/a>, but their website left me wondering if I could order or not. I searched around and found other places, but they had minimum order amounts and everything else they sold was crap. Then I thought “Ebay!” Yes, the source of everything had a seller of 500 20 inch straws for $9.99!<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Good deal!<\/p>\n

Now my guests won’t have to worry about catching\u00c2\u00a0on fire and we can drink of a communal bowl. The lushes can even steal sips of their neighbor’s cocktails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have ever enjoyed a Mystery Bowl at the Mai Kai, or Volcano Bowl at other tiki establishments, you know that you must have a really long straw to Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[536,11],"tags":[371,412],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktail-capers","category-polynesian-pop","tag-straws","tag-tropical-cocktails"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-1L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":783,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2012\/08\/14\/dyi-ice-volcano-for-your-mini-mystery-bowl\/","url_meta":{"origin":109,"position":0},"title":"DYI Ice Volcano for your Mini Mystery Bowl","author":"Swanky","date":"August 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you don't yet own the Mini Mai-Kai Mystery Bowl, well, go get one HERE. 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