pulque

• Sounds delicious, especially when you learn that the meaning of pulque is "rotten" or "decomposed" from the Nahuatl language. —  podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history
• A number of the city's cantinas still serve a 2,000-year-old Aztec drink called pulque, which is suddenly enjoying a revival. —  Diner's Journal
• To drink pulque was forbidden, under penalty of death, except to prescribed persons at certain festivals, but on the festival of the fire god all intoxicated themselves by custom and tradition. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• Chocolate and pulque were the favourite drinks Any survey of the Aztec customs shows a remarkable fact--they seem to have received their civilisation and customs from more than one source. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• These were totally unlike anything he had before tasted; being pulque, a slightly fermented drink obtained from the juice of the agave, most useful of all the vegetable productions of Central America A native, who was distinguished by his dress from the rest, now gave an order; and in a short time two women approached, bearing a tray with some flat cakes of fine bread, and fruits of different kinds. —  By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico

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