But while tequila is technically mezcal, it can only be brewed from blue agave, in the Mexican state of Jalisco, surrounding the town of Tequila. Plantations that would grow multiple forms of agave since mezcal can be made of multiple strains of the plant would end up with bottles of visually interchangeable light-colored liquid. To limit confusion, jimadores ranchers who harvest the plant by hand using long, sword-like knives would pluck the bugs from dead or dying agave plants and place them in bottles of mezcal.
Many little towns around the country, rural people, poor people, they only have lands and part of the belief has been from generation to generation. So perhaps their grandfather or their great-grandfather does that. But there is a keyword worth noting in his observation: marketing. After you have just polished off a bottle of mezcal and had a strange bug that everyone around you was telling you was going to make you hallucinate.
You probably are most likely going to fool yourself into thinking it's true. The shots you take to build yourself up to eating it however, might just do the job. The first of which is simply a marketing ploy. Which to be fair, works wonders. When staring unknowingly at a shelf of mezcal it can be difficult to choose one.
When there's a drowned worm in the bottom of the bottle that stands out, promotes curiosity and hence makes you want to buy it. The second comes from a suggested old strategy for telling different bottles apart.
On agave plantations, Jimadors who harvest the agave would often end up with different bottles of interchangeable light colour liquid, both tequila and mezcal. In order to tell them apart they would pluck the dead worm from the agave plant and place it in the mezcal bottles.
Somewhat of a glorified name tag if you will. And was most likely just a way to make people buy more Mezcal. That's another common misconception. Tequila and mezcal are quite similar so the misunderstanding is acceptable.
Both tequila and mezcal are made by distilling the agave plant, however while mezcal can be made from a blend of one of types of the cactus-like succulents.
Which means tequila is a type of mezcal, but mezcal is not tequila, and only mezcal has worms. That is correct! There is no such thing as a tequila worm, no worms are in spirits and especially not in tequila. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Tequila worms - to eat or not to eat - that is the question? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 8 months ago. Active 11 months ago. Viewed 71k times. Improve this question. Add a comment.
Active Oldest Votes. Most people would not eat the mezcal worm, but in some cultures it is quite acceptable. As for myself, I think I will pass on this offer! Improve this answer. Aw, and I was quite happy to share it with you! Do you have an authoritative source?
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People will sometimes feel they must prove their machismo or machisma by swallowing it whole, or worse yet, chew it up before swallowing it.
So, what is this thing and what the heck is it doing there? That lovely little critter is in the bottom of mezcal bottles, not tequila.
So, technically, it is a mezcal worm, not a tequila worm, because it is only found lying there dead in the bottom of a bottle of mezcal.
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