At this point he offered us the pulque and the sandwiches, and I took both, eating and enjoying as well as I could.
As we stood so, Becodar appeared again in the doorway, bearing an olla of pulque and some tortilla sandwiches, made of salad and shreds of meat, flavoured with garlic.
Sherry of our host, as, on his knees, he poured out pulque for us.
The natives ascribe to Pulque as many good qualities as whiskey is said to possess in Scotland.
The ancient Mexicans made a species of sugar from the juice of the stalk--while the modern Mexicans brew from it a fermented drink, called pulque de maiz, or omayo.
Pulque is so little known in Europe, or in the United States, that some account of the process, by which it is made, may be acceptable.
Upon this it acts as a sort of leaven; fermentation is excited instantly, and in twenty-four hours it becomes Pulque in the very best state for drinking.
It was the product of the country long before the time of the Montezumas; and Ballou tells us that 'so late as 1890 over eighty thousand gallons of pulque were daily consumed in the city of Mexico.
It is said to be the peculiar effect of pulque to create, in its immoderate drinkers, an aversion to other stimulants; the person thus using it preferring it to any and all other drinks, irrespective of cost.
A mug of pulque was given him to drink, after which it was thought best to leave him for a time to himself, to recover, in a measure, from his spent condition.
The mother smiled and the daughters blushed, while the host and his guest quaffed their pulque with keen and appreciative gusto.
We also see the design decorating the painted drinking bowls named xicalli which were employed in the distribution of the sacred pulque or octli at certain religious festivals.
In Mexico, tortillas and pulque are considered unfashionable, though both are to be met with occasionally, in some of the best old houses.
Excellency have lived in these our degenerate days, and beheld certain monks of a certain order drinking pulque and otherwise disporting themselves!
It is a great pulque hacienda, and, besides what is sent into Mexico for sale, the court is constantly filled with the half-naked Indians from the village, who come to have their jarros filled with that inspiring beverage.
At all events, the maguey is a source of unfailing profit, the consumption of pulque being enormous, so that many of the richest families in the capital owe their fortune entirely to the produce of their magueys.
Little ragged boys, acting as waiters, were busily engaged in handing round pulque and chia in cracked tumblers.
But pulque isn't bad," protested Jack, more for the sake of saying something than because he thought so.
Those who have tried pulquefor the first time will heartily endorse this opinion.
Pulque made from the maguey is mentioned, but this plant does not seem to have played so important a role in the south as in the north; at least there is very little said of it.
Mendieta speaks of the people as very temperate, using pulque only under the direction of the chiefs and judges for medicinal purposes chiefly.
Texcalcevia, texcalcevilo, and mataluhtli are some of the names given to pulque according to its hue and condition.
A cup of pulque was given to each of these poor wretches, which he presented toward the four quarters of the earth, and then sucked up the fluid by means of a tube.
The most popular Nahua beverages were those since known as pulqueand chocolate.
We could hear him all the time we were changing place; and his harangue was still going on, as we came into cover among the fronds of the pulque plant.
The ground between the rhododendrons and the "pulque plant" was a smooth piece of turf, without shrub or tree.
The pulque did not make the men more quarrelsome, but seemed to plunge them into a lethargy.
Tin cups were produced and all, including Carossa, drank pulque made from the maguey plant.
Another common ceremony was in drinking pulque to first spill a little on the edge of the hearth.
Those who could afford it sang and drank pulque in honor of their dead ones and of these gods.
The pulque was kept in black jars and lifted out to be drunk with black cups.
After this all the old men of the ward in which the fire was, drank pulque and sang before the image of Xiuhtecutli till night.
They finished by giving the little things pulque in tiny cups, and for this the feast was called the 'drunkenness of children.
The manufacturers of pulque bought, apparently two slaves who were decorated with paper and killed in honor of the gods Tlamatzincatl and Yzquitecatl; there were also sacrificed women supposed to represent the wives of these two deities.
Also when a person began upon a jar of pulque he emptied out a little into a broad pan and put it beside the fire, whence with another vessel he spilt of it four times upon the edge of the hearth; this was 'the libation or the tasting.
This was over a pulque shop, which seemed to be appropriately designated.
For instance, in front of a pulque shop is found a laughable figure of a man with a ponderous stomach, drinking his favorite tipple.
This is undoubtedly the dirtiest and most neglected suburb of the capital, where low pulque shops and a half-naked population of beggars stare one in the face at every turn.
The daily supply of pulque is brought to market on the natives' backs in pig-skins, the four legs protruding from the body in a ludicrous manner when the skin is full of liquid.
Chemical test showspulque to contain just about the same percentage of alcohol as common beer; say, five or six per cent.
Close at hand within these low adobe hovels, pulque is being retailed at a penny a tumbler.
Of course it will be adulterated, every intoxicant is, except pulque as at present made from the maguey by the Indians.
A tumbler of pulque which costs them a penny they indulge in, but drinks at fifteen or twenty cents each, and in small portions at that, are quite beyond their means.
Pulque is to the Mexican what claret is to the Frenchman, or beer to the German, being simply the fermented juice of the aloe.
The pulque shops are many, far too many; but there was no intoxication noticed on the streets.
At this writing, over eighty thousand gallons of pulque are consumed daily in the national capital.
The pulque gatherers scoops out the blossom of the maguey while it's a bud.
It's the fourth trip of the pulque sellers, when the Donna Anna shows in the door.
These yere pulque people,' says Enriglit, 'does a fa'rly rapid commerce.
Veytia with saying that Papantzin presented to the king a vessel of pulque invented by Xochitl.
Quetzalcoatl drink pulque that he might be induced to leave Tollan.
Brasseur, for reasons not very intelligible, refers to this period Sahagun's account of the invention of pulque in Olmec times (see pp.
The walks were invaded by the mob, and in a few minutes the mesons were thronged with idlers, who began drinking pulque and mezcal, while smoking their cigarettes, and strumming the jarabe and vihuela.
Fray Ambrosio; apprehending the effects of mezcal and pulque on his men, had made them bivouac at the entrance of the desert, at a sufficiently great distance from the Paso del Norte to prevent them easily going there.
There is nothing like a cup of mezcal or pulqueto clear the brain.
The deuce twist your neck, and may your accursed pulque choke you!
It's the Tall Man that Father and Pedro were talking to in front of the pulque shop," whispered Tonio.
I only know they were seen not long after in front of a pulque shop (pulque[16] is a kind of wine) talking in low tones with a Tall Man on horseback, and that after that nobody saw them for a long time.
It may be they went to a cock-fight, for there was a cock-fight behind the pulque shop and most of the other men went if they did not.
Its natural advantages are fully equal to those of Guadalajara, but here pulque grows and man is more torpid.
Here for the first time were pulque producing fields of maguey, planted in long, straight, emerald-green rows.
But the drink of Tehuantepec, whatever it might be--for pulque is unknown in the tropics--appeared to make its devotees merely gay and boisterous.
Rebels came one day and in the exuberance that follows a full meal long delayed, with pulque embroidery, one of them fired two shots through the window not far from his venerable British head.
I had put off the experience of tasting the product until I should reach Apam, the center of the pulque industry.
Pulque was flowing as freely as Niagara Falls, and for the first time we realized what "dead drunk" meant.
Pulque is sold very cheap at these villages, and many of the Mexicans come up in boats or on horseback to treat themselves.
Pulque shops, where they deal out the national drink, are quite plenty.
By this time I began to get "shaky," especially as they did not talk and pulque was dispensed with.
No respectable Mexican would enter a pulque shop, but they all drink it at every meal.
About 200 mounted and unmounted soldiers had gone out to keep the peace, but they entered into the spirit of the thing as much as the others, and doubtless would consume just as much pulque before midnight.
In my wanderings around the city I found a street on which there are no business houses or even pulque shops--nothing but coffin manufacturers.
Pulque is the fermented juice of the agave, or so-called century plant, which matures in from five to fifteen years, instead of one hundred as generally believed.
I had gone into the wine-shop for a glass of pulque before going round to see that the mules were all right.
Now, Maria," Harry said, "you had better take a glass of pulque for yourself.
We have still two or three bottles of spirits left, and you can buy pulque everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pulque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
