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How to win an argument with an Irishman
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Richard Jernigan
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Joined: Jan. 20 2004
From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: How to win an argument with an I... (in reply to Leñador)
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In Oaxaca last Christmas we were served many free samples of mescal. We paid for a few shots. Back in the USA I bought a couple of bottles, drank them. It used to be in Mexico that you bought mescal if you couldn't afford tequila. Now it's fashionable in the USA, or at least in Austin. Over the years the tequila manufacturers have put together a set of regulations and got them passed into law. Not that I believe every bottle of tequila sold in the USA adheres strictly to those laws, but I think they have had considerable effect. Is there a comparable set of regulations for mescal, or is it "every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost?" The two bottles of mescal I drank were $35-$40. Upon due consideration, I think I could have duplicated them with grain alcohol, water, some artificial smoke flavor, and maybe a little sugar. They had none of the old-time funkiness when you could buy what was almost Mexican moonshine--mostly in Mexico, not so much in the USA. In the wintertime I drink various highland single malts, Hennessy or Martell VSOP, Perrier chaser. RNJ
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