[Aztlan] canned pulque

[Charlton, Thomas H]

This is just a brief comment and footnote on canned pulque. In 1969 we excavated on lands owned by the Governor of Tlaxcala. In the fall we went to the Tlaxcala State Fair and encountered canned pulque, bought some and drank it when we got back to Teotihuacan. Taste-wise it was OK. We didn't do a long term study of quality and time in the can.

I think this was part of a program by Lopez Mateos's Government in which in the DF, and the States of Mexico and Hidalgo several industrial plants were set up to process products of Nopal and Maguey were set up-maybe in other places as well. It was called Patronato del Maguey. I am not sure that any of these plants functioned much after 1964 although one in Hidalgo on the old road from Sahagun to Epazoyuca was still functioning between 5 and 10 years ago

Tom Charlton


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From: Paul Schmidt [paulgro at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 9:20 PM
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Subject: [Aztlan] canned pulque

Several years ago I bought a can of pulque in the supermarket in Mexico City. If you know good pulque from Hidalgo or around Teotihuacan, the canned version was really awful. It didn't last long; I have not seen it here for years. It is apparently all marketed in the U.S.

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