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Category : Tequila
Neeraj : I saw your section on
Tequila, and I had a question. You mentioned Tequila, Mescal and rattlesnake
for body, but where do worms fit in to the scheme? I saw a variety of
Mescal, and they claimed they had TWO worms, and I saw them in the bottle.
(looked nasty to me). Where do worms fit into the scheme is my question, and
if you have the answer, I will be grateful.
TulleeGuru : Hi. Firstly, there is no
worm in tequila. The worm is only found in mezcal, which is made along the
lines of tequila but from the many varieties of mezcal plants and not from
the blue agave (from whence cometh tequila). Secondly, the worm in mezcal is
owed to a bottler and trader called Jacobo Lozano P ez who discovered in
tasting, that the maguey (agave) worms gave the mezcal a different flavor,
since when the plant was cut for cooking a lot of these creatures remained
in the heart during production. This is how he decided to give his product a
distinctive marketing touch, adding a worm to the beverage and including
with the bottle a small sack with salt, seasoned with the same larva,
dehydrated and ground. Expert opinion however suggests that the only use of
the worm besides as a marketing gimmick is to mask the chemical taste of
poorly produced mezcal. Our advice, stay off the worms, stick to Salma Hayek.
Category : General
Morigato : In India, what is
the drinking age, the legal age to consume alcohol? In the USA, it is 21. The
USA is probably the only country in the world with a drinking age of 21.
TulleeGuru : In
India alcohol is a state subject and all legislation is therefore made by each
individual states (i've lost count of how many we have - at last count 26 and
mounting). It varies as far as I can tell from 18 (in Bangalore) to 25 (in
Delhi), which would be the approx. range.
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