/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Apparently a lime wedge in the neck is supposed to keep flies out of your beer.

>>17584910
Tastes good

Makes shit beer taste like okay beer

Proper refrigeration wasn't available in places far from even small cities so beer tasted like ass. Adding lime and other stuff made them taste nice. This was in the 50's but there still are people that will deliberately leave beer in direct sunlight for that shit taste

I love those on a hot day so goddamn much

>>17584910
Aren't beer cocktails a think that's been around forever? Lime and mexican lagers is a great combination, probably happened because they had a bunch of lime. You add lime to most things in coastal mexican dishes.

Why can't I post on /pol/? I get
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No image, just text. I'm not banned, clearly, or else it would tell me I'm banned. But wtf?

>>17584931
This.
Originally, flavor was secondary “side effect”. The practice began as a way to keep dirt/bugs/whatever from getting into your bottle of beer when drinking in dirty locations.
Now it’s just customary.
Though I’ve also been to shithole bordertown dive bars in Mexico, where the original use is still valid.

There are a few theories as to michelada origin.
I like to think it was just some random Mexican who one day thought “damn, I want a Bloody Mary but all I have is beer and tequila and it would taste like shit with tequila.”

>>17584910
>could it be english because it got english sauce?

>>17584910
they come from michelada cups

>>17584910
Idk m8, honestly we add lime to a fuckton of our food. That being said, i think im the only one who doesn't do that.

>>17584910
looks like a Cesar to me.