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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
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Subject: Re: odd foods
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Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 11:55:13 EDT
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[Re: worm in tequilla]
> I tried a worm for the first time a couple of nights ago.  I bought one of
> those 50-ml. airline-sized bottles containing the wormy variety of tequila.
> Unfortunately, I had bought it a long time ago (two years?), and it had a
> very stale taste.  I'm not sure if it was that way when I bought it, or if it
> had just sat too long.  Well, any way, so I make this tequila-and-oj, and I
> save the worm in the bottle (to savor it, don't you know?).  Dinner that
> night was lasagne, and I figured what the hell, they put pot in brownies; why
> not a worm in my lasagne?  Now I know why not.  THAT STUFF TASTED ABSOLUTELY
> ***AWFUL***!!!  Not only that, but it didn't even have the reputed "punch".
> My recommendation to anyone who is interested is:  Don't.  It just isn't
> worth the nasty bitter taste (really makes you gag).  I'm glad I didn't waste
> the effort on one of those evenings after One Of Those Days when I kept
> threatening to drink it; those were the nights I really wanted to escape
> reality, and this just didn't do the trick.
> 
> Helen Anne
> 
>      {ucbvax,ihnp4,cbosgd,hplabs,decwrl,unisoft,fortune,sun}!dual!hav 
> 

While I agree that the worm is no delicacy, it is alot better if you
don't eat it with your lasagne(sp?).  You have to be drinking tequilla
before you try the little critter.

Also, I don't think real tequilla has a worm.  You usually find them
in the more "rot-gut" forms, like mezcal.

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                         --Kevin Chu
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