I think Miss Calli is a drink that you had you fell in love slowly slowly and when I said

fell in love is because Miss Calli is a drink that you drink it by kissing a little kisses

kisses all the time.

I've been drinking a lot of mascara over the past few years and I've never thought about

kissing it that's a new one.

I'm still at the kiss on the lip stage not even tongues.

We're still getting to know each other.

It's nearly the day of the dead in Mexico and in honor of the holiday we are taking a trip

beyond our southern border to get to know Mexico's most famous drink or drinks.

And you're listening to Gastropod, the podcast that looks at food through the lens of science

and history.

I'm Nicola Twilly and I'm Cynthia Graber and this week Firewater from the Agave.

So Mexico's national drink is tequila.

Wait a minute, isn't it, Miss Calli?

Well, what's the difference?

Susque Sarah Bowen, she's a professor of sociology at North Carolina State University

and she just published a new book called Divided Spirits, Tequila, Miss Call and the Politics

of Production.

Something that's really interesting since most people are more familiar in the US with

Tequila is that Tequila really is a Miss Call.

And Miss Calli is a word that means it's the generic term for agave distalates.

So Miss Calli is produced throughout Mexico and one of the places where they started producing

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