Monday, May 10, 2004
Things That Were Unexpectedly Excellent About Mexico. Part 1 (of several)
Original size coke bottles. In Mexican pharmacies they still sell 237ml glass bottles of coke. I hadn't seen one of these since the mid-eighties. Coke tastes a bazillion percent better from a glass bottle, and these tiny bottles are so freaking cool that it makes you want to drink seven in a row. They cost only 4 pesos each, which is like 1/2 a pence or something, so you can afford to knock them back. The neck is significantly smaller than on a current ginormous uk bottle so its actually impossible to down it in one, more of a sipping drink. In case you were wondering, with the small neck you can still do that cool thing where you suck all the air out, then wedge your tongue into the bottle, so it can hang from your tongue.
Mexico City from the air. Mexicans don't call Mexico City Mexico City, they call it just Mexico. That's quite confusing, so sometimes they call it DF, which stands for District Federale. Anyway Mexico City has at least 20 million residents, so it's massive. Unlike New York or Tokyo they don't live in high rises, but in one or two storey buildings. Flying over it you get this totally unnerving view of city spreading to the horizon on all sides. Urban sprawl gone insane. I found it both horribly beautiful, and compellingly wonderful.
Original size coke bottles. In Mexican pharmacies they still sell 237ml glass bottles of coke. I hadn't seen one of these since the mid-eighties. Coke tastes a bazillion percent better from a glass bottle, and these tiny bottles are so freaking cool that it makes you want to drink seven in a row. They cost only 4 pesos each, which is like 1/2 a pence or something, so you can afford to knock them back. The neck is significantly smaller than on a current ginormous uk bottle so its actually impossible to down it in one, more of a sipping drink. In case you were wondering, with the small neck you can still do that cool thing where you suck all the air out, then wedge your tongue into the bottle, so it can hang from your tongue.
Mexico City from the air. Mexicans don't call Mexico City Mexico City, they call it just Mexico. That's quite confusing, so sometimes they call it DF, which stands for District Federale. Anyway Mexico City has at least 20 million residents, so it's massive. Unlike New York or Tokyo they don't live in high rises, but in one or two storey buildings. Flying over it you get this totally unnerving view of city spreading to the horizon on all sides. Urban sprawl gone insane. I found it both horribly beautiful, and compellingly wonderful.
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