Who would believe that this spiky blue plant could make your head explode, your friends laugh and fill in the missing hours from the night before, and your clothes fall off????
Meet Agave.
The plant that gives us Tequila.
Oh...sure...there are a few crucial steps in between...we will check them out in a minute.
There are five towns dedicated to making this adult beverage in Mexico...one aptly named Tequila...
But we are in Virtual Cancun...and in part of the old town there is the
Museo Sensorial Del Tequila
Where we will start our adventure.
Less a Museum and more of an exotic liquor store...for 220 Pesos (roughly $17.50 USD) you can have a tasting of many top shelf tequilas.
How Tequila is Made
https://youtu.be/dmAZ0aH0P9o
Tour
https://youtu.be/c6WIo5WLRZI
The most exclusive of these is sold for about $2,000 USD.
Okay...but how did we get from this...to this.
First off...if they had been left to form a butterfly/moth they would have ended up looking like this.
But no........................
Instead of flitting from Agave to Agave drinking nectar and doing ...butterfly things...this guy
Somewhere in the 40's-50's decided it would be a cool marketing ploy to add the caterpillar.
Of course they immediately die when they are put in the bottle of alcohol...and they add no flavor.
Eating them holds no special properties and is completely harmless.
But you have to admit
It made ya look.
Next we will visit the Underwater Museum of Statues...
