May 2001; pict. A. Guët
around the head of the tower and a bottle on either side.
It looks like the job was aborted mid-way some strokes above the red band.
PAINTED ROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENTS - Index of Brands
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| near Arcachon (33 France),
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| RHUM St ESPRIT
around the head of the tower and a bottle on either side. |
Good exposition was most important.
Otherwise the bottle could have been
drawn between the ridges.
It looks like the job was aborted mid-way some strokes above the red band. |
| Campsegret (N21, France); 11.VI.2000 | Mandacon (N21, France); 11.VI.2000 | |
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| Un million dans un verre
Bartissol si délicieux à l'apéritif |
One million in one glass
(What's the meaning of that?) Bartissol So delicious as an aperitif. |
| Marvejols (Lozère, France); pict. M. Jullien |
Villejuif (Paris, France), IX.2002; pict. M. Jullien |
near Tulle (France), VIII. 2001; pict. A. Guët |
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| Mandarin apéritif cordial Mandarin was created in 1915. Overview of whole setting with old shop. |
Anisette GRAS
In 1872 in Alger, the GRAS brothers (born in Spain) started to sell an
apéritif based on an old family recipe. Soon the anisette GRAS
became very popular under the French in their colony.
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Buvez ... un Monéger |
| Andorra; III.1995; pict. P. Rigault | Tule (Mexico), V.2004; pict. M. Chartier | Tule (Mexico), V.2004; pict. M. Chartier | ||
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| Rhum Negrita Bardinet la marca de prestigi internacional |
Reposado Espina Dorada Mezcal 100% Agave |
Mezcal con gusano 100% de Agave Oro de Oaxaca Hecho en Mexico | ||
| Bardinet exists since 1857. Négrita became a deposited brand almost thirty years later in 1886. The micro-dressed lady dates from the mid 1970s. | Reposado means that the Mezcal could rest for at least two months in wooden barrels. | con gusano means that the bottle contains a worm which lives inside the Agava plant. |
| Since times immemorial aphrodisiac powers are attributed to
this worm. At least that is what we find at the site of the Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca
(oaxaca.gob.mx/economia/mezcal/spanish/mez-teq.html). Could be,
but that doesn't explain why a (nor exactly this) gusano is added to the bottle.
Several explanations do exist, but I won't give them. Only this :
The gusano is a caterpillar of a moth; two species actually. + The red gusano (chinicuil, Hypopta agavis) crawles inside the stem of the Agave (that's the one you'll prefer in the bottle). + The white gusano (ocuilin, Acentrocneme hesperiaris) lives in the leaves and works its way to the heart of the plant. This caterpillar can reach 7 cm and is considered delicious fried in olive oil. Learn more at www.mundorecetas.com/martha_figueroa in the article Herencia de los antiguos mexicanos y su mundo gastronómico |
| Other liquor pages: | Vins au quinquina
Martini and other vermouths Les cognacs |
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