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Tiki bar
Tiki bar: Polynesian-themed American bar serving rum cocktails like the Mai Tai and Zombie, founded by Donn Beach in 1930s Hollywood, expanded by Trader Vic's, peaked in the 1960s, revived since the late 1990s amid cultural appropriation debates.
Tiki culture
Tiki culture, also called Polynesian Pop, is an American movement of Polynesian-themed bars, rum cocktails, exotica music, and decor begun in 1930s Hollywood by Donn Beach and Trader Vic, peaking postwar, declining in the 1970s, revived since the 1990s amid cultural appropriation criticism.
Tilaka (तिलक)
Tilaka (तिलक, Sanskrit "mark") is the Hindu forehead mark, distinct from the women's bindi dot, indicating sectarian affiliation; applied by hand or stamp with sandalwood paste, turmeric, or sacred ash; Pew India survey: 84% of Hindu women wear a bindi, 53% of Hindu men a tilak.
Tilly Ramsay
Tilly Ramsay (Matilda Elizabeth Ramsay, born 2001) is an English TV presenter, cook, and influencer, daughter of Gordon Ramsay; known for CBBC's Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, Strictly 2021, MasterChef Junior judging, and Prime Video's Dish It Out.
Tilman Fertitta
Tilman J. Fertitta (born 1957), Houston billionaire, sole owner of Fertitta Entertainment: Landry's restaurants (600+ properties), Golden Nugget casinos, Houston Rockets, Connecticut Sun purchase, and 2026 Caesars acquisition; U.S. ambassador to Italy.
Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons, known as Timmy's or Timmies, is a Canadian quick-service restaurant chain selling coffee, baked goods, and light meals, founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964.
Tim Martin (businessman)
Tim Martin (Timothy Randall Martin, born 1955) is the British founder and chairman of J D Wetherspoon, founded 1979 in Muswell Hill; knighted 2024 and a prominent pro-Brexit campaigner.
Tim Tam
Tim Tam is a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's. Created in 1964, it consists of two chocolate-malted layers with a cream filling, famous for the Tim Tam Slam ritual.
Tin foil hat
Tinfoil hat: an aluminum-foil cap humorously believed to block mind control, and shorthand for conspiracy theorists. Origin in Julian Huxley's 1926-27 story "The Tissue-Culture King"; the 2005 MIT study found certain frequency amplification, not protection.
Tineke Younger
Tineke "Tini" Younger, also TinekeYounger, is an American TikTok chef from Frederick, Maryland, known for her viral mac and cheese, Next Level Chef season 2, and the cookbook Today We Are Cooking.
Tinsel
Tinsel: glittering thin strips or threads of metal or metal-coated plastic; originally a mid-15th-century English name for costly cloth interwoven with gold or silver thread, from Old French estincelle, spark.
Tiny Jesus
Tiny Jesus, also called Little Jesus or Mini Jesus, is a pocket-size Jesus figurine with outstretched arms, hidden in public places as playful Christian outreach; distinct from king cake babies.
Tiramisu
Tiramisu (tiramisù, tiramesù) is a chilled Italian dessert of coffee-soaked savoiardi layered with mascarpone, egg, and sugar cream, dusted with cocoa. Codified at Le Beccherie in Treviso in the early 1970s; recipe deposited by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina.
Tito's Vodka
Tito's Handmade Vodka is a corn-based, pot-still-distilled vodka by Fifth Generation, Inc. of Austin, Texas, founded by Bert "Tito" Beveridge, holder of the first legal Texas distillery permit (1995) and the top-selling U.S. vodka brand.
Titus cut
Titus cut (coiffure à la Titus): short French Revolutionary-era hairstyle imitating busts of Emperor Titus, equal length front and back, worn by men and women from about 1791 to 1810, linked to republican antiquity and guillotine traditions.
TJ Maxx
TJ Maxx, known as TK Maxx in Europe and Australia, is an American off-price retailer founded in 1976 as the first banner of The TJX Companies.
TJX Companies
TJX Companies is an American off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, operating over 5,200 stores in ten countries under banners including TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and HomeGoods.
TK Maxx
TK Maxx, the European and Australian off-price retail chain of The TJX Companies (parent of TJ Maxx), launched in Bristol in 1994, renamed from TJ Maxx to avoid confusion with a Liverpool retailer, selling branded goods up to 60% below RRP across 673 European and 88 Australian stores.
Tlayuda
Tlayuda (clayuda): Oaxaca's signature street food, a 30–40 cm leathery corn tortilla from Bolita maize spread with asiento, black beans, quesillo, and tasajo; name disputed between Nahuatl tlao-li and Spanish talludo, UNESCO-linked since 2010.
Toad in the hole
Toad in the hole: traditional British dish of sausages baked in Yorkshire-pudding batter (eggs, milk, flour), served with onion gravy; name first recorded in Grose's 1787 Provincial Glossary.
Toast
Toast: sliced bread browned by dry heat via the Maillard reaction; also the drinking ritual from spiced toast floated in wine. Covers etymology, chemistry, nutrition, and toasting traditions.
Toast (honor)
Toast (honor): a spoken tribute with raised glasses honoring a person or sentiment. Word comes from spiced toast placed in wine; drinking sense attested 1690s; poison-clinking story apocryphal.
Toast sandwich
Toast sandwich: a Victorian sandwich of thin cold toast between two slices of bread-and-butter with pepper and salt, from the invalid cookery chapter of Isabella Beeton's 1861 Book of Household Management.
Tobacco
Tobacco is a Nicotiana plant whose addictive, nicotine-rich leaves are smoked, chewed, or heated; its use causes cancer and more than 7 million deaths each year.
Tobacco packaging warning messages
Tobacco packaging warning messages are mandated health warnings on tobacco packs, governed by WHO FCTC Article 11. First US text warning 1965; Canada first pictorial warnings 2001; nearly 120 countries now use graphic labels.
Toblerone
Toblerone is a triangular Swiss chocolate bar with honey-almond nougat, invented in 1908 in Bern by Theodor Tobler and Emil Baumann; the name joins Tobler and torrone. Owned by Mondelez since 1990, made mainly in Bern, exported to 120 countries.
Tofu
Tofu (豆腐, bean curd) is a soy milk curd food invented in Han Dynasty China over 2,000 years ago, made with coagulants like gypsum, nigari, and GDL; high in protein and calcium, it is a global plant-based staple.
Toga
The toga was the semicircular woolen outer garment of male Roman citizens, draped without fastenings over a tunic. Also togati; marked citizenship, rank (praetexta, picta), and declined to ceremonial dress.
Toile de Jouy
Toile de Jouy (French for "cloth from Jouy") is a printed cotton fabric with large monochromatic floral or figural scenes, named after Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles, where Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf founded France's first printed textile factory in 1760.
Toilet paper orientation
Toilet paper orientation: whether a roll on a wall-parallel holder should hang over (away from the wall) or under. Seth Wheeler's 1891 patent drawings show over, but an 1890 patent shows under; Ann Landers drew 15,000 letters on the question.