It’s November. Well, technically it’s also Movember. Or everyone is feeling Mexican. Whatever, there are a lot of guys out there sporting dodgy facial hair moustaches this time of year. I’ve seen small trimmed numbers, big handlebar tashes and some interesting styles in between. Whether you’re growing it for fun or actually trying to do some good, chances are you look pretty dumb. So you might as well get something out of it.
El Jimador tequila is helping out with their Flash Your Tash campaign, getting people to well, flash their moustache, of course. They’re letting me take 3 readers (plus partners) to a big fat Mexican dinner at El Burro restaurant in Greenpoint on December 6th to celebrate tash season.
All you have to do is send me pics of yourself as you Flash Your Tash.*
It doesn’t even have to be real. Which means it’s open to boys and girls. Fake tashes stuck or drawn on. Real tashes. Even ginger tashes. It doesn’t matter. Just send me funny pics and you could be joining for a raucous Mexican dinner on 6th December. And by raucous I mean insanely fun with El Jimador tequila flowing like a flooded river. So come and taste the glory with me…
*HOW: Send pics to thefoodie.co.za@gmail.com (or via twitter directed at @foodie_za with the tag #eljimador) before Dec 2nd.
Find out more about El Jimador 100% agave tequila at www.eljimador.com.
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T&C’s:
You must be of legal drinking age to enter
Deadline for submissions is Friday 2 December 2011
You will need to be available on 6 December 2011
Entrants need to be Cape Town-based
Inappropriate photos will be rejected. Photos must not:
o feature anyone under the legal drinking age
o depict violence, drugs, drug culture, or unlawful or anti-social behavior
o be offensive on grounds of age, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation or likely to cause widespread offence on any other grounds
The fish taco. Fresh fish, battered and served in a soft flour tortilla with some tomato, lime and coriander salsa. Or whatever topping you want. Maybe a bit of guacamole. Fresh and light, but oh so damned tasty. Even better with a shot of tequila or margarita on the rocks.
El Burro* in Green Point does a delicious fish taco. In fact they just tweeted “Grilled line fish Taco with a habanera/fresh mango (made here) hot sauce” – which pretty much inspired this post. And now… I’m hungry.
*El Burro Authentic Mexican Cuisine & Tequila Bar
81 Main Rd, Greenpoint- 1st Floor Exhibition Building)
T: 021 433 2364
Look, we warned you there’d be plenty of tequila – 8 bottles, to be precise. We warned you there were going to be actual luchadore masks and sombreros. We warned you there’d be loads of authentic Mexican food too. But we didn’t warn you how cute the piñata would be. Just look at the thing. Even we didn’t expect it to be so cute. It’s going to be hard to take a swing at that thing. Naturally, the Mexicans came up with a solution to this problem: the blindfold. And you thought it was to make it harder to hit the piñata? Ha, gringo.
So Jamie Who and I met on Friday morning and picked six winners. We were feeling the aftereffects of a rather tequila-heavy night, so it did take us a good while to make the decisions, but the winners we feel, are justified. Their luchadore names and the story of how our El Jimador Mexican dinner went completely mental will be posted soon. Consider yourself warned.
The luchadore winners:
Mike Metletkamp
Matthew Kent
Dylan Muhlenberg
Rob Armstrong
Massimo (who knows?)
Ruth Cooper
Please send an e-mail to jamiewhoblog@gmail.com to confirm that you’re still keen and so we can organise a date when everyone is available.
My first tequila experience was when I was 16. My friend had a bottle in his house. Well, his mom did, and we noticed it. So one night we decided to drink the stuff. How? Well, you need salt and lemon, of course. So we licked the salt, shot the tequila and sucked on the lemon. UGH! “What the crap balls was that!” was about all I remember thinking. Then we did it a few more times and I woke up the next morning sleeping next to the swimming pool with an empty Steers box beside me. Not a great first experience. The tequila came in a big square bottle and looked really impressive, but the taste left your mouth feeling like you’d tried to kiss a cactus.
One day about ten years later a friend came back from Mexico with some good tequila. We drank it neat, on the rocks, in tumblers. “What the crap balls was that?!” was the reaction. But we asked this question because it was so different to the usual tequila you got here. It was smooth, tasty and didn’t leave a napalm burn down your throat. Which is exactly how good tequila tastes.
This all really has nothing to do with anything, but I thought I’d share it with you. What I really want to say is that Jamie Who and myself have teamed up with El Jimador (really good) tequila to host a Mexican evening. We’re going to invite a few cool people round and cook some crazy shit up. And we’re talking real Mexican food, not Tex-Mex cheddar cheese leftovers. We’re going to make the best Mexican meal you’ve ever had, which if you’ve only been to the Mexican Kitchen, is not going to take much effort. But fear not, we’re going to give it effort and make it memorable. And naturally, the night will involve plenty of tequila, sombreros, taches and second-best (to the tequila) of all, a piñata.
To join in the fun, all you need to do is watch the video below and answer these questions:
1. What happens to the guy after he asks for salt?
2. If you were a Mexican wrestler, aka Luchadore, what would your name be?
www.drinklikeamexican.info
Jamie Who and I will then choose the best answers (hint: there’s one answer to the first question, but get creative on the second) and those folks will join us for dinner.
So ask yourself a third question: “Don’t you wanna taste a the glory? Just a leeetle taste, to see what eet tastes like??” And if you do, get watching, send your answers to jamiewhoblog@gmail.com, and we’ll be seeing you for dinner.
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Venue & date TBC.
T’s & C’s apply.
No actual Luchadores are allowed to enter this competition.
No tequila was drunk while writing this post.
Okay, some was drunk last night, but that’s not the point, so leave it.
1. Sneaking a swig of whisky out the bottle in the middle of the day.
2. Sipping gin & tonic on an international flight.
3. Drinking Zamalek out of a quart while sitting on a beer crate.
4. A big glass of red wine by the fireplace in winter while it pours down outside.
5. That first impulsive tequila you order on Friday at 5.30pm that you know isn’t the last.
6. Moerkoffie at sunrise in the bush somewhere.
7. Quaffing white wine out a plastic cup on the beach for summer sundowners.
8. Sipping rum while on a sailboat somewhere in the tropics.
9. The first sip of ice cold beer around 11am at the Saturday market.
10. Uncorking a bottle of bubbly for no occasion whatsoever.
11. Hot chocolate spiked with Drambuie – and with marshmallows – on the couch under a duvet.
12. A dirty martini with three olives on the toothpick served at a swanky hotel bar.
13. That double Klippies & Coke at the bar in a small town with a name that ends in ‘-fontein.’
14. Squeezing naartjie Energade into your mouth at the Engen on Orange at 4am.*
15. A really spicy Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning while reading the Sunday Times.
16. Drinking good wine overlooking vineyards. Any vineyards.
17. That breakfast orange juice, secretly with vodka in it, drunk at the family gathering.
18. A pint of Bosun’s Bitter on the Lookout Deck in Plett.
19. A well mixed margarita, served on the rocks, in a tumbler with a salted rim (anywhere they can serve this).
20. That unnecessary last bottle of really good wine you opened at the dinner party but barely remember the next day.
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* – not alcoholic, but drunk due to alcohol.
(Comments below, feel free to add in any moments you feel should be on this list…)
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