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- [[Image:Mezcal.jpg|thumb|right|350px|A cheap commercial bottle of Mexican Mezcal bought in Cancun. A worm can be seen in the bottom of the bottle.]] ...tequila]]. Its fabrication and consumption are closely associated with the Mexican State of [[Oaxaca]].7 KB (1,102 words) - 12:37, 18 May 2007
- .... These limes, the product of seedling trees, are variously referred to as Mexican, West Indian or Key limes. In tropical countries, where limes may be secure ...is respect and is worth planting where the true limes cannot be grown. The Mexican lime, grown as seedlings, is not particular in its soil-requirements. It gr8 KB (1,361 words) - 02:38, 12 December 2009
- ...The fruit can be eaten whole or the juice and rind can be used to flavour drinks and dishes. It has considerable amounts of [[vitamin C]] and is strongly ac ...rong lime flavor. Fruit gets it's shape from Kumquat and it's flavor from 'Mexican Lime'. Ever bearing and highly productive. Somewhat more cold hardy than li4 KB (677 words) - 18:05, 8 April 2011
- ** ''[[Sambucus mexicana]]'' ('''Mexican Elder'''; Mexico and Central America; with blue-black berries) ...ome commercial [[soft drink]] producers to introduce elderflower-flavoured drinks ([[Fanta]] Shokata). The flowers can also be used to make a mildly alcoholi10 KB (1,458 words) - 05:55, 14 October 2007
- ...may be eaten in a variety of ways and is also often used to flavor summer drinks and [[smoothie]]s. ...s and in other art from the holiday. Watermelons are a frequent subject in Mexican [[still life]] art.19 KB (2,859 words) - 14:53, 12 April 2007
- Chiefly [[Mexico|Mexican]], agaves occur also in the southern and western [[United States]] and in c ...cies is fully 300, and more than 325 have been described, largely from the Mexican tableland, although each island of the W. Indies possesses its peculiar spe17 KB (2,241 words) - 14:38, 12 May 2011
- ...ing [[turnip moth]], the sugarcane borer, ''Diatraea saccharalis'' and the Mexican rice borer (''Eoreuma loftini''), leaf-cutting ants, termites, spittlebugs * Cane sugar syrup was the traditional sweetener in soft drinks for many years, but has been largely supplanted (in the US at least) by [[h19 KB (2,753 words) - 09:49, 4 September 2007
- ...and descriptions were sent to him by inhabitants of New Spam, and certain Mexican Jesuits, sojourning at Rome, confirmed all the astonishing reports of this ...hen ripe, the acidulous pulp is refreshing, and is used to prepare cooling drinks, or is eaten with a spoon directly from the fruit.36 KB (5,511 words) - 05:38, 23 June 2009
- ...sed for the manufacture of jams and preserves. Exquisite sherbets and iced drinks are made from it, the Cubans and Brazilians being especially skilful in pre ...and fruit-fly (Dacus tryoni), the mango fruit-fly (Dacus ferrugineus), the Mexican fruit-fly (Anostrepha ludens), which has become troublesome in Porto Rico.58 KB (9,471 words) - 16:36, 14 April 2011