Batanga Cocktail

Easy to make great cocktail, which seemingly was created in Tequila, Mexico circa 1960.

 

 

Ingredients (per cocktail):

 

2 ounces tequila

5 to 6 ounces Coca Cola

1 or 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice + more to coat the rim of the glass

ice

salt to coat the rim of the glass (use coarse salt if you have it, but use what you have)

slice of lime for garnish

tall glass (about 10 ounces)

 

Salt the rim of the glass by running a piece of lime around the rim (the top and the outside rim of the glass). Add some coarse salt to a plate. Dip the rim of the glass into the salt, then tilt the glass to get the outside rim of the glass coated with salt too. Add the tequila, Coke and lime juice to the glass, stir to mix, then add ice. Attach a slice of lime to the glass as a garnish.

WORD HISTORY:

Foreign-This word is distantly related to "door," a word from the Germanic roots of English. "Foreign" goes back to Indo European "dhwer," which meant "door, gate," and this gave Latin the adverb "foris"^ meaning "outdoors, outside," which then gave Latin "foraneus" meaning "on the outside, on the exterior," which gave Old French "forain" meaning "external, outside, outer," and also used as a noun meaning, "one from outside of a an area, region or country." English borrowed the word in the early 1300s, initially as "foran/foreyn(e)," adjective use meaning "from outside a given area," and the noun use for persons, "one born elsewhere, one from another area, a stranger." Initially in English, as was the usage in French, the adjective and noun had the same spelling, and it wasn't until the 1400s that English developed "foreigner," initially as "foreyner." Note: "Strange" and "stranger" are English borrowings from French, but interestingly in modern French, forms of these words have come to be the terms for "foreign/foreigner."  

^ Latin also had the noun form "foris" (plural: fores), which meant "door, gate, opening, entrance/exit."