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Pulque

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pulque [′pül‚kā]
(food engineering)
The sap of the agave plant after natural fermentation, it is distilled to make tequila.

Pulque 

a popular drink in Mexico made from the sweet juice of various magueys (Agave salmiana, A. atrovirens, and other species). A flower shoot is cut before flowering, and the juice is taken from the cut. Between 4 and 7 liters are produced daily for three months. The juice ferments rapidly to form pulque, which has an alcoholic content of 4–8 percent. The Aztecs of antiquity used the drink in religious ceremonies.



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Clients enjoy a blend of nopal, a prickly pear cactus, and pulque, an alcohol made from the agave plant (predecessor to modern-day tequila) massaged into their skin using spine-free cactus paddles.
Large amounts of pulque, an intoxicating drink, were consumed by all participants, and then following this observance, which Sahagun translates as "The Children all Drink Wine," the ceremony came to an end (Sahagun, 1951).
Before dining on the authentic pre-Columbian meal, don Jaime, the Garcia family patriarch, lifted his glass and toasted: "Here we eat in the style of Obregon: a little food and pulque by the glassful.
 
 
 
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