Cebadina revisited yet again
Blogs are very funny things. For the last few days, the most popular has been a post on the famous malasadas of the Punahou carnival in Hawaii, malasadas that Obama must have eaten. Hardly a surprise.
But I have yet to figure out why almost every day the most visited posting is one on a curious local drink of the state of Guanajuato called cebadina. Indeed it’s really not even my posting because if you visit the link my friend Bob Mrotek did all the leg work. He concluded that although the name of this drink suggests it had its origins as a kind of barley water, it is now tamarinade or jamaica or even kool aid with bicarb added.
Well cebadina is on the march. I was in our local shopping town, Leon, a couple of days ago, and there was a new branch of La Cebadina in between Home Depot and Centro Max just across from Costco.
Here’s the counter. On the right, a jug of bicarb. On the left my fizzing plastic glass of cebadina.
I have to tell you, if you are a fan of alka seltzer, you’re just going to flip for cebadina. If not, well . . . Mexico has lots and lots of other drinks.
Rachel,
I can see from the photo that you didn’t drink your cebadina fast enough. You are supposed to toss it down before it fizzes over. I’ll bet they frowned at you :)
She had her rag handy! And I had a hard time tossing down the 6 peso (50 cent) glass. I’m glad I did not go for the 8 peso size!
BOB HOW CAN I DO A “CEBADINA” DO YOU KNOW THE RECIEPT??