• Tequila is just fermented cactus juice.
• Tequila is like any other liquor and the result of 'mechanized' farming techniques.
• Like any other liquor, Tequila is distilled once.
• "Raw" tequila has a golden color. The best stuff is clear because it is pure.
• The first tequila distillery was founded by the Spanish conquistadors.
• Tequila is product of South America.
• The name tequila is a yaqui Indian word meaning truth. Didn't Don Juan teach Carlos Castenada about life through the hazy vapors of mezcal tequila?
• It's a peasant drink. Hell, there's no damn regulation to ensure quality.
• It's all a bunch of hooey. There are really only two classes of tequila, boy, clear and yeller! Don't let nobody tell you different.
• Silver tequila ain't never worth drinking.
• Real Mexicans only drink gold-colored tequila!
• Hell, gold tequila is gold tequila... all the rest is just pretentious crap. Drink up.
• It's just like moonshine. Aging it only makes it worse.
• Tequila's a cheap drunk. You can buy the best of it for peanuts.
• I've got a bottle of tequila that's 20 years old. It's worth thousands.
• I've got a bottle of 1987 Tequila, that was the best year there ever was.
• The only way to drink tequila is to knock it back as a shooter.
• Tequila's got that icky worm in the bottle.
• There ain't no such thing as a tequila tasting. You just pour and drink.
• I invented the Margarita right here in this very bar about 20 years ago.
THE MYTH:
I've got a bottle of tequila that's
20 years old. It's worth thousands.