Sunday, August 23, 2015

Word of the day: pulque

The word of the day is pulque:

  1. a fermented milky drink made from the juice of certain species of agave in Mexico.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pulque)


"He also permitted the sale of pulque and rum on market days, in direct violation of Escandón's orders; and drunk as well as exasperated, the local peons and common people of the town began rioting."

- John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

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