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I think I am going to die..

wstphal said:
That's a good reason, actually, and I appreciate the honesty! It's a distilled liquor originally from Mexico, made from fermented cactus juice, traditionally coming with a picked cactus worm in the bottle. A great way to get a bad hangover.
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It's made from agave, not cactus. And the worm is supposedly just a moth larvae that lives in agave. The better stuff is made from 100% agave.
 
desertanimal said:
It's made from agave, not cactus. And the worm is supposedly just a moth larvae that lives in agave. The better stuff is made from 100% agave.
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I guess I thought agave was a cactus. I did know the worm was a caterpillar type of some sort. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. I just drink the stuff, ya know? ;)
 
As long as we're on the subject of desert plants... don't prickly pears have little splinters inside of them? Why would you feed something that spiky to a tortoise?
 
Tequila = awesome.
I've had tequila with the worm. The worm is so infused with alcohol (and usually, by that point in the bottle, you're so messed up you REALLY don't care), that it will push you from sober to absolutely SHNOCKERED (word for unbelievably intoxicated) in about 5 minutes. Which is why most tequila's in the States don't have the worm. People have been known to fight over the worm in the bottle of tequila to prove their "macho-ness".
 
Teddy Roosevelt said:
As long as we're on the subject of desert plants... don't prickly pears have little splinters inside of them? Why would you feed something that spiky to a tortoise?
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No, the glochids are on the outside (which is probably what you're thinking of if you're talking about "little splinters," as the spines could only be qualified as spines, not "little splinters.") You can singe the glochids off by burning, which is what people do before they eat the fruit (or ferment it into alcohol), but they don't seem to bother less wimpy animals than we. Javelinas eat prickly pears to the ground, they were introduced to Africa as cattle browse (and I've seen cows eating them without reservation), and tortoises don't seem to mind pads with only glochids left, either.
 
RobbiesCornField said:
Tequila = awesome.
I've had tequila with the worm. The worm is so infused with alcohol (and usually, by that point in the bottle, you're so messed up you REALLY don't care), that it will push you from sober to absolutely SHNOCKERED (word for unbelievably intoxicated) in about 5 minutes. Which is why most tequila's in the States don't have the worm. People have been known to fight over the worm in the bottle of tequila to prove their "macho-ness".
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I don't buy that. There's no reason that the worm would have a higher concentration of alcohol than the alcohol it's sitting in. It's either psychological or there's something else in that worm, but the latter wouldn't make sense, either, since anything "extra" in that worm would have diffused out of it into the alcohol by osmosis.

p.s. I think a lot of time that worm thing is a racket, and it's just a mealworm in the bottle.
 
desertanimal said:
I don't buy that. There's no reason that the worm would have a higher concentration of alcohol than the alcohol it's sitting in. It's either psychological or there's something else in that worm, but the latter wouldn't make sense, either, since anything "extra" in that worm would have diffused out of it into the alcohol by osmosis.

p.s. I think a lot of time that worm thing is a racket, and it's just a mealworm in the bottle.
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I think the same principle holds true with the fruit in sangria. LOL
 
Certainly the fruit in sangria has a higher alcohol content than the unadulterated fruit in the produce drawer of your fridge (and thus, it should not be wasted), but it doesn't have a higher alcohol content than the alcohol in which it has been marinating. You can just think of it as more drink. And the worm in tequila is that way, too. But it's a tiny drink.
 
desertanimal said:
Certainly the fruit in sangria has a higher alcohol content than the unadulterated fruit in the produce drawer of your fridge (and thus, it should not be wasted), but it doesn't have a higher alcohol content than the alcohol in which it has been marinating. You can just think of it as more drink. And the worm in tequila is that way, too. But it's a tiny drink.
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It's a worm shot! :p
 
o man this thread isnt as fun anymore....cuz i just realized wade got banned!! that sucks..:nope:
 
snakewispera snr said:
Ask yourself. Did you join here to get snake info or did you join to be humoured by Wade. If it's the latter go to FB.
I joined for the snake chat.
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No need to b snappy, i just thought the guy was funny and i don't need to be humored by anybody by the way.....geee's:rolleyes:...i came for the snake info and the camaraderie, the friends i make are a bonus.
 
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