In Veracruz, the port city that has been shipping and receiving goods across the gulf for ages, the oilmen drink a cocktail called a Petrolero -- which is, more or less, a michelada with tequila instead of beer.
Imagine this scenario: A female college freshman doesn't eat anything all day, exercises on an empty stomach, then downs five shots of tequila in less than two hours.
The report, covering the period from Jan . 1through Dec. 31, 2004, reviews the results of 15 complaints against liquor ads for brands that are both familiar, like Belvedere vodka, Hennessy Cognac and Patrón tequila, and less well-known, like Navan Cognac, Players Extreme vodka and Sex vodka.
Mezcal is tequila's smokier, less refined cousin, run through with a distinctly vegetal flavour.
With less agave growing and more tequila flowing, it doesn't require a Ph.D. in economics to understand the consequences: prices are up 20percentt or more for the popular brands, and demand threatens to overtake supply.
This works spectacularly well with the Ding Ding, a mixture of rosemary-infused cachaça (rum's burlier cousin), aguardiente, ginger beer and lime, but less so with the Larakaraka (tequila, elderflower liqueur, pineapple juice, ginger liqueur, lime), which I overheard one patron despair of trying to pronounce and instead blurt out, "Hakuna matata," the signature phrase from "The Lion King".
And of course the words of Tila Tequila deserve far less critical scrutiny than I'm giving them here, but they're emblematic: Trump draws her in because his success, in the face of mainstream repudiation, validates her own perceived refusal to march to the beat of consensus.
Just a few calories less than a shot of tequila or whiskey.
Imagine Athens, Georgia except cooler, more Tequila, and focused less on radio rock.
That more or less chimes with all my experiences with tequila.
