![]() The name La Paloma or The Dove could come from a 19th century folk song of the same name. Let’s briefly go over the few theories of origin. In a world of daiquiris, margaritas, beach beers, mojitos, and punches, why do we need a so-so tequila cooler? I don’t know, but I kinda want one right now. Nobody’s guzzling daiquiris to quench their thirst, but the Paloma is certainly a light crisp pleasant summer drink. I don’t think anything that dehydrates you can be truly refreshing. I wouldn’t call any alcoholic beverage “refreshing”. When done right it’s actually a perfectly splendid spiked cooler. ![]() Any attempts to help it along in any direction either offset the balance or change the ingredient list so much it eschews any authenticity. When the mix is off the Paloma is sugary soda with a pungent tequila note, or bland and watered down. It just confounded me so, the uncoding of this equivocal quencher. I’m being totally honest when I tell you there were nights I laid in bed thinking of ways to tweak the recipe. Which tequila offered flavor vs crispness. Are they good, or is it just that I’m now obsessed with trying to figure out if they're good? I found myself stressing over figuring out the perfect balance of soda to lime juice. When my wife and I are relaxing on the patio, I find myself wanting one. But, then, I sorta can’t stop drinking them. It’s an enigma notwithstanding its furtive beginnings. I feel like the Paloma was the original hard seltzer. At first I thought it would be like a modified marg, but it turns out to be more like a carbonated Hemingway Tequila Daiquiri. I can’t figure out what it is about the Paloma. I care so much about that drink that I still don’t think I truly did it justice. We dove deep into ingredients and pastimes and the gravitas of my personal attachment to it. Last year at this time I did an extensive episode on my favorite drink: The Margarita. So, let’s have a little fun with La Paloma! What was the question again? After all, it’s easy to feel at peace with a drink whose name translates literally to “the dove”. We may never have the answer, but as it turns out the more of these I drink the less I care about answers. So, where does that leave us? Mired in Mexican mystery. ![]() Fresh juice didn't even come along till tropical hipsters started looking for ways to turn a $6 cooler into a $15 cocktail. The only disagreement seems to be what kind of soda to use. In fact, the lack of backstory is kinda what is interesting. Today’s drink, a mixture of tequila, lime, and grapefruit soda, is like Mexico's answer to the rum and coke, but sans any rich history to make it interesting Something of which Mexico is usually replete with. I try to leave any chronological markers out of Pod Tiki so the episodes can be enjoyed in any order at any time, (I’m being a bit presumptuous thinking they’re “enjoyed” at all), but this feels like deja vu after the Cuba Libre episode. But there’s just as much evidence to back that up as any other plausible theory surrounding the origins of this episode’s tenebrous topic.Īctually, there’s really no origin to speak of. Some say the recipe was discovered by Elon Musk on Mars After which he invented time travel, journeyed to 1950’s Mexico and planted the recipe to surreptitiously inform the world that Mexicans were indeed on Mars - they were Marsicans.
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