Talk:Tequila
From Academic Kids
What about the worm? -Branddobbe 18:30, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)
- There is sometimes a worm in some forms of Mezcal; but never in tequila (or at least not in any good tequila). The gusano worm eats the agave cactus and supposedly people started including it because it changed the flavor of the Mezcal. It was included in bottles of mezcal as a gimmick; legend has it that it was a prank done to see if they could make the Yanquis eat worms. The worm has no intoxicating properties of its own (other than being soaked in mezcal) though a lot of people claim it does. The fact that most people who eat the worm have already drank a bottle of mezcal suggests that their intoxication may have other causes than the worm.--csloat 19:14, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
