Christmas fruit punch is an infusion that is consumed in Mexico, traditionally in December during the posadas and on Christmas Eve, although there are also people who start consuming it from September for the national holidays and from November during the eve of the day of the dead (mainly in Mexico City and its metropolitan area).
It is prepared by boiling the ingredients in large quantities to be served during typical Christmas and winter gatherings. Traditionally, it is served very hot in individual clay pots with portions of fruit, and may or may not contain a spirit (often rum), which is added after boiling to prevent evaporation. One of the main ingredients, which gives it its blood-red color, is hibiscus water (made by boiling hibiscus flowers in water to release their red coloring). The basic fruits are apple, guava, and tejocote (Mexican hawthorn).
Mexican ponche may or may not contain alcohol and is served hot. The version with alcohol is called "ponche con piquete" (spiked ponche) because it has a "piquete" (spike) of tequila, rum, whiskey, red wine, or champagne, presented as a traditional hot infusion or as a cocktail.
This drink is commonly found at street fairs set up outside churches, where it can be enjoyed with buñuelos (fritters) or tamales. It is also sold at Christmas markets in Mexico during the famous Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon.
It is also traditionally consumed in Guatemala, even before the holidays. Fruits such as papaya, melon, and apple are used, along with sweeteners like sugar, honey, and/or cinnamon.}
Recipe from the Goverment of Mexico
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Home Alone legacy sequel: McCauley Culkom plays an older Kevin McCallister who has struggled as an adult after being forgotten by his family and abandoned once again but this time it stuck. To mske ends me hes turned to burglary. Cause of his history he knows every trick to get past from security systems to paint cans on doors. Eventually he comes across a house on christmas where a kid like him was forgotten on Christmas and an inversion of the first happens. But this is just the beginning of act 2, dear reader, for there is a twist! A team up! They have a 'We're not so different, you and I" moment, Robbing the kid's parents fucking blind and during a subsequent montage of their following heists they meet a motley oceans 11 style crue of neglected children with Looney Tunes style defense systems, and they recruit them onto the team. You see the events of young Kevin's life spread to the news soon after, leading to more parenrs leaving their kids home and more kids creating elaborate traps, Kevin is a legend in the eyes of these children who were ironically neglected due to his perseverance leading to a more lax attitude towards child attendance. This contradiction comes to a head right before the big heist. Kevin is shattered. He wanders from home to home, stepping on marbles and being splattered with paint, hit by 2×4s and of course being hit in crotch by a loose floorboard, 'that old chestnut' thinks Kevin.
In a despair Kevin wanders the back alleys, looking in a drunken stupor for a poorly guarded suburban home, but alas he has taught these kids too well. But as the story would generally require earlier, he meets a scary old poor person! Just like the other movies! And who is this decrepit elderly who frightens Kevin in this revival? Of course, its Joe fucking Pesci! And he has seen better times even in his burglary days. He tells Kevin that while his being a modern day sun tzu for these rich neglected children who must now fend for themselves. He was always the best. And if anyone could beat these chumps at their own gsme, my gods on Olympus, it was Kevin 'Wil E' McCallister. With Pesci in tow he rounds up the gang, makes a borderline heartfelt apology and they get to work stringing together the most elaborate string of christmas time robberies upon upper class suburbia than could be imagined. These children left at home dont stand a chance and seeing all their worldly possessions in the hands of these bandits, much like the pirates of old, chose to join their motley crue. The film ends with Kevin. At the top of his empire but entirely alone, cause his crew are like 40 years younger at the oldest so a good amount of distance is best to shave the edge off an already steep crime. Fade to black
this is basically my fallen london character
Just gave a glance at thr website and it seems cool
it's some dumb grindy bullshit but fun to fill a couple minutes a day
Ah, not my thing but more power to ya. Im a play like 2 hours of a hard nes or snes era gsme and get really fucking good super gradually stage nowadays.
not the sit and play a whole bunch kind of grindy, just a very very very slow burn, not for everyone though for sure