It never dawned on me that “pulp fiction” came from pulp, as in paper, and I’m from a pulp and paper area (Ottawa). I don’t drink but still watched these videos and it pays off as I learned something today.
Yeah, pulp fiction was cheap fiction magazines made from wood pulp paper (opposed to more expensive glossy mags). Over time "pulp fiction" became synonymous with low-grade bad fiction. A lot of early popular sci-fi was pulp fiction (like flash Gordon).
I don't know where someone found that a Peso was equal to 4 US Dollars. From 1954 to 1976 1 US Dollar was worth 12.5 Mexican Pesos. So for something to cost 1 peso in 1961, that's 8 US Cents. source: Wikipedia, Mexican Peso Section 1 "History" 1.3 "First Peso", Paragraph 3.
I agree that it was never more than a dollar, but I think I remember it being more like 4 or 6 for a dollar in the early 60s. It did vary a fair amount year by year, it wasn't fixed to the dollar. As usual, I'm a little suspicious of the complete veracity of Wikipedia. That book would have retailed for about 35 cents US in 1960.
As I've gotten older (cough, ahem 50's) I've gradually grown to appreciate (dry) vermouth in cocktails and the aromatics which I once turned my nose up at. Definitely going to try this one. I also used to hate cherries in all their forms, but now that nose hit you get from maraschino cherries is lovely. I think my olfactory bulb grew up.
@@maremacd, Glen got a little, um, peeved at some comments about not stirring and/or shaking long enough; so he put out a video about stirring your cocktail. It was 10 hours long.
@@xcreeperify one peso in 1964 (my earliest memory of such things) was the price of a bottle of Fanta from the corner store (incl the 50 centavo deposit on the bottle), 3 chicken tinga tacos (i.e. moderately priced tacos) at a stall in the market, the price of a cinema ticket for the cheap Saturday afternoon double feature, or a regular comic book (= that's pretty much all I spent money on in 1964). It was officially pegged at one peso = 8 cents us (12.5 to the dollar). THEN came massive inflation in the 70s and 80s and the peso was revalued: 1000 old (1960s) pesos = 1 new peso upon the revaluation in 1993.
I got to say this is a really good simple balanced cocktail, its bigger than the sum of its parts . it is a touch sweet but , just savor the flavors while the ice melts. I am adding this to my favorites, Unlike most cocktail now there are no bitters in it! I love bitters but I do feel they are over used in places were they really do not add anything.
In 1960 or thereabouts a paperback book like that would have been about 35 cents in the US. The Mexican Peso was a significant part of a dollar in those days, so 1 peso for the book doesn't seem unreasonable. The peso crashed around 1980 by a factor of about a hundred if I recall at all correctly. I think there was a second devaluation about a decade later.
I don't recall paperbacks of that general size getting up to 50 cents until about a decade later. I vaguely recall a general progression of 35 cents, 45 cents, then 50 cents by about 1970. The big Nixon inflation in 72 and 73 fairly quickly raised the price to 60 and 75 cents, then $1 or more.
Since tequila reposado is just tequila aged in a barrel, it would have been around for a centuries, as tequila was certainly stored in barrels back then. Hard to believe it wouldn't have been around in Mexico at least in 1961.
You might think that… but the first tequila aged in a barrel wasn’t launched until 1974. Up to that point tequila was clear, and in fact the clearest was the most prized. It just wasn’t saved or stored, it was made, bottled, and consumed quickly.
Glenn is 100% right "Herradura reposado", the first (and still one of the best) commercially produced aged tequila, wasn't introduced in the market until 1974. I once heard a story that, the product was such an overnight and unexpected success, that the company was forced to discontinue it for a couple of years in order to completely reevaluate the production process.
A little difficult to calculate….. but for reference: 1 peso in 1961 was 12.5 peso/ usd, so aprox $.08 us, BUT- min daily wage in Mexico in 1961 was 25 peso vs $1.15 usd per hour. Sooo…..customary 10hr day in mexico meant 2.5 peso/ hr pay
What kind of maraschino cherries are those? Doesn't even look like those bright red "cherries" we can buy everywhere. Found them: Luxardo Cherries Maraschino. Now where can we buy those?!
Yes - no I actually said 100% Blue Agave Tequila, as opposed to Tequila... Tequila is 51% Blue Agave, and the rest can be any fermentable sugar (corn, cane, barley, or even other agaves)
Accounting for the inflation of the peso. 1 peso back in 1961 would be 12,368.43 pesos today. Converting that into dollars would be $608.34 in today’s money or $64.48 US dollars in 1961
That is not the correct way to make the conversion. You are counting devaluation as if it were real money; Mexico has undergone multiple currency crises, famously in 1994. Instead, 1 peso then was about a nickle. The CPI calculator puts a 1961 nickle at 50 cents today.
It never dawned on me that “pulp fiction” came from pulp, as in paper, and I’m from a pulp and paper area (Ottawa). I don’t drink but still watched these videos and it pays off as I learned something today.
Yeah, pulp fiction was cheap fiction magazines made from wood pulp paper (opposed to more expensive glossy mags). Over time "pulp fiction" became synonymous with low-grade bad fiction. A lot of early popular sci-fi was pulp fiction (like flash Gordon).
@@DECODEDVFX that would explain why the movie sucked.
I don't know where someone found that a Peso was equal to 4 US Dollars. From 1954 to 1976 1 US Dollar was worth 12.5 Mexican Pesos. So for something to cost 1 peso in 1961, that's 8 US Cents.
source: Wikipedia, Mexican Peso Section 1 "History" 1.3 "First Peso", Paragraph 3.
I agree that it was never more than a dollar, but I think I remember it being more like 4 or 6 for a dollar in the early 60s. It did vary a fair amount year by year, it wasn't fixed to the dollar. As usual, I'm a little suspicious of the complete veracity of Wikipedia. That book would have retailed for about 35 cents US in 1960.
Glen I would be interested in a video all about ur cookbook library.
I enjoy this series, but I have to say I enjoy the ones where Julie shares in the tasting more, it just seems to add so much more depth.
Hey Glen and Julie,
Thank you for all of the time, money and effort you two put into these videos. Informative and fun to watch.
As I've gotten older (cough, ahem 50's) I've gradually grown to appreciate (dry) vermouth in cocktails and the aromatics which I once turned my nose up at. Definitely going to try this one. I also used to hate cherries in all their forms, but now that nose hit you get from maraschino cherries is lovely. I think my olfactory bulb grew up.
Every time you do the stir shot, I check the video length. Thanks for that. You've made me paranoid!
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@@maremacd, Glen got a little, um, peeved at some comments about not stirring and/or shaking long enough; so he put out a video about stirring your cocktail. It was 10 hours long.
Glen played a prank a while back and looped the stirring to make it a 10 hour long video.
@@maremacd Here you go th-cam.com/video/kekNL6cgW44/w-d-xo.html
@@gbuhler79 Ah! Thanks!
Equivalent to a 5$ paperback in a book store today (1 paso in 1960 = ~100 today, 20:1 paso to usd)
yup.. so if you could afford the bottles to make the drink the book is not going to break the bank
@@xcreeperify one peso in 1964 (my earliest memory of such things) was the price of a bottle of Fanta from the corner store (incl the 50 centavo deposit on the bottle), 3 chicken tinga tacos (i.e. moderately priced tacos) at a stall in the market, the price of a cinema ticket for the cheap Saturday afternoon double feature, or a regular comic book (= that's pretty much all I spent money on in 1964). It was officially pegged at one peso = 8 cents us (12.5 to the dollar). THEN came massive inflation in the 70s and 80s and the peso was revalued: 1000 old (1960s) pesos = 1 new peso upon the revaluation in 1993.
I traveled a lot in Mexico in the 70s and 80s before revaluation and I think one peso was worth about a dime.
I enjoy drinking on Wednesdays! Cheers!
I love the cosmopolitan air you bring to the discussion during tasting.
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Lived in Guadalajara in 1950s and a peso would have been the right price for a drink
I got to say this is a really good simple balanced cocktail, its bigger than the sum of its parts .
it is a touch sweet but , just savor the flavors while the ice melts.
I am adding this to my favorites,
Unlike most cocktail now there are no bitters in it!
I love bitters but I do feel they are over used in places were they really do not add anything.
In 1960 or thereabouts a paperback book like that would have been about 35 cents in the US. The Mexican Peso was a significant part of a dollar in those days, so 1 peso for the book doesn't seem unreasonable. The peso crashed around 1980 by a factor of about a hundred if I recall at all correctly. I think there was a second devaluation about a decade later.
1994, significant enough to be dubbed the "Mexican peso crisis" on Wikipedia
Considering that a paperback book in 1960 sold for $.35 to maybe $.50, it would be a very expensive paperback book at $5.
I don't recall paperbacks of that general size getting up to 50 cents until about a decade later. I vaguely recall a general progression of 35 cents, 45 cents, then 50 cents by about 1970. The big Nixon inflation in 72 and 73 fairly quickly raised the price to 60 and 75 cents, then $1 or more.
Since tequila reposado is just tequila aged in a barrel, it would have been around for a centuries, as tequila was certainly stored in barrels back then. Hard to believe it wouldn't have been around in Mexico at least in 1961.
You might think that… but the first tequila aged in a barrel wasn’t launched until 1974. Up to that point tequila was clear, and in fact the clearest was the most prized. It just wasn’t saved or stored, it was made, bottled, and consumed quickly.
Glenn is 100% right
"Herradura reposado", the first (and still one of the best) commercially produced aged tequila, wasn't introduced in the market until 1974.
I once heard a story that, the product was such an overnight and unexpected success, that the company was forced to discontinue it for a couple of years in order to completely reevaluate the production process.
A little difficult to calculate….. but for reference: 1 peso in 1961 was 12.5 peso/ usd, so aprox $.08 us, BUT- min daily wage in Mexico in 1961 was 25 peso vs $1.15 usd per hour. Sooo…..customary 10hr day in mexico meant 2.5 peso/ hr pay
Good show as always thank you
My favorite Tequila drink would have to be a paloma. So good!
Jules is definitely on top of her knowledge about spirits. "I think I'll cap this before I kill it."
Just an FYI: it´s pronounced zah-POE-pen (it´s just outside Guadalajara)
Dear Glen, what’s the difference between yellow cake and white cake?
Sorry about off topic but I’m pretty high
Lolol
What kind of maraschino cherries are those? Doesn't even look like those bright red "cherries" we can buy everywhere.
Found them: Luxardo Cherries Maraschino. Now where can we buy those?!
They're pretty common at liquor stores in the US.
My Spanish is pretty poor but "hielo picado" is crushed ice, not cubes. Seems like that would make a big difference. Anyone tried it that way?
The book would have been pretty cheap but I doubt many people would be buying vermouth in 1960s Mexico except for wealthy people.
... we got a video on our channel, .... link in the top corner...... ?
Did a quick search. Here’s the link to Glen’s grenadine video. th-cam.com/video/1qQj1TECSPI/w-d-xo.html
You mentioned Blue Agave Tequila. If I'm not mistaken it has to be Blue Agave to be tequila. Other sorts of Agave would make it a Mezcal.
Yes - no
I actually said 100% Blue Agave Tequila, as opposed to Tequila...
Tequila is 51% Blue Agave, and the rest can be any fermentable sugar (corn, cane, barley, or even other agaves)
Did a quick search. Here’s the link to Glen’s grenadine video. th-cam.com/video/1qQj1TECSPI/w-d-xo.html
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Accounting for the inflation of the peso. 1 peso back in 1961 would be 12,368.43 pesos today. Converting that into dollars would be $608.34 in today’s money or $64.48 US dollars in 1961
That is not the correct way to make the conversion. You are counting devaluation as if it were real money; Mexico has undergone multiple currency crises, famously in 1994. Instead, 1 peso then was about a nickle. The CPI calculator puts a 1961 nickle at 50 cents today.
I think the Peso was worth about US $4 back in 1961 :P At least that was what a Google search told me! 😛