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Guy Courchesne
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 Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:53 am Post subject: Rompope |
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Anyone had a chance to sample the local eggnog, called rompope here?
I picked up a couple of bottles at a fair that featured products from various Mexican states in DF last month...there's a place in Jalisco that makes really good stuff. Almond flavoured is my favorite.
I also tried Nopal juice..the pure stuff. Vile. It tasted like an ashtray. Don't ask how I know what an ashtray tastes like. Just trust me on this. |
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saraswati
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Rompope? No...but mistela from Chiapas is wonderful! |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Mistela? Describe it please...don't know that one... |
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saraswati
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| It's panela dissolved in aguardiente then mixed with spices and/or fruit. The one they tend to make in Chiapas is fermented with fruit which suits my sweet tooth just fine! |
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thelmadatter
Joined: 31 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:11 pm Post subject: rompope |
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| I like rompope too... it reminds me more of "eirlikor" (literally egg liquor) from when I lived in Germany more than it reminds me of egg nog. Man... I should think about taking the salmonella risk and making real egg nog. Gotta live dangerously once in a while! |
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MELEE
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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I like rompope in small amounts, its a much better gift from Puebla than those awful camote candies.
And nopal, mixes very nicely with grapefruit juice. |
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M@tt
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject: . |
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couldn't agree more. camotes are awful. i bought some as a gift and they sat in my friend's refrigerator for 2 months. they're just logs of sugar and gelatin. disgusting.
rompope really tastes nothing like eggnog. i used to buy that stuff when i lived in fortin and drink it straight from the bottle on lonely nights at home. yummy. i haven't tried nopal yet but i'll probably stay away if it tastes like an asstray. one of the most horrible egyptian dishes, which i can't spell but it starts with m, it's green, and it has the consistency of mucous, also tastes like cigarette butts. incredible but people enjoy it. |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| M@tt wrote: |
| i haven't tried nopal yet but i'll probably stay away if it tastes like an asstray. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Ben Round de Bloc wrote: |
| M@tt wrote: |
| i haven't tried nopal yet but i'll probably stay away if it tastes like an asstray. |
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The difference explained.
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MELEE
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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