The New York Times Has Much To Teach Us About Alcohol, The World
3 December 2007, 12:00 PM. By Alex Alvarez
Nothing treats a Monday hangover quite like drinking even more. The New York Times understands this, and they’ve got our backs once again by telling us about a nice place to throw back a couple -dozen- glasses of Calimocho (or Kalimoxto, should you prefer to slur in Basque):
A Calimocho (also spelled Kalimotxo) is a 50/50 mixture of red wine and Coca-Cola — I will pause here to allow some readers to grimace — favored by Spanish youth looking for a sweet, cheap buzz. Teenagers will sometimes mix the wine and Coke by swishing them in a plastic grocery bag for distributing at botellones, makeshift parties held in parks and other public spaces.
Tastes like nostalgia and regret!
One measure of a cocktail’s drinkability is its universality, and here the Calimocho scores big. In Chile and Argentina, a red-wine-and-Coke combination is known as a jote; in Croatia, it’s a bambus; in Germany, a kora or korea. Go ahead and grimace, if you like. But the world will keep on drinking.
After downing several shots of a whisky that tasted not unlike paint thinner this -morning- past weekend, a glass wine and coke seems like ambrosia to us. So, do share, have you made or tried Calimocho before?
If Bacchus Drank Cola [The New York Times]
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Sure, I drank this with my Basque friends all the time when I studied abroad in Europe. It’s delicious, a kind of quick, chilled spiced wine. Not that I ever drank it from a plastic bag, mind you. It’s no more tacky or embarrassing than a mudslide (now there’s a candy-drink I wouldn’t touch with a telephone pole) or a Long Island Iced Tea or any of the other mixed drinks that contain soda.
I must admit my cousin brought this concoction over my house on Thanksgiving to try, and try we did, then we spat it out and gave the coke to the kids as we enjoyed our ever-true coquito! That shit is disgusting!!!
Some sangria has sprite in it…..and some restaurants in New York definitely make sangria far more yucky than kalimotxos.
I don’t know what the NYTimes wants o say with this article…i think it’s stupid.
i prefer my coke through a straw followed by a red wine chaser, thank you very much.
Calichocho whatever. You haven’t lived until you experience Boone’s Farm mixed with Tab. That shit is awesome.
I drank plenty of jotes in Chile and Argentina. Its actually surprisingly delicious.
Drank Kalimochos in Euskadi with drunk punks in a fancy squat. Not good but not bad. Punkis no muerto!
Them Latins, so cuuute! Aint they always mixin’ somethin’ with their somethin’ to make somethin’? Red wine and sugar is “sangria”, red wine and sprite is “tinto de verano”, and the one I can’t understand for the life of me, rum and coke is a “cuba libre.” Now this shit. I’m not giving them any respect until they start mixing their Coke with robotussin… call it a “tos libre,” I don’t care.
i was just in argentina, and fernet with coke was the most popular drink there besides gancia.
of coursre, fernet straight has the power to make even the toughest man alive puke his brains out, so they have no choice…