Street Cart · Fruit & Cane Liquor Cocktail
Torito
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Torito carts in Xalapa blend the drink to order in a machine that looks and sounds like an oversized milkshake blender, with the alcohol content adjusted almost like ordering a coffee's strength.
Fresh fruit — often tamarind, mango, or peanut — is blended with sweetened condensed milk and aguardiente (sugarcane liquor) into a thick, semi-frozen cocktail. Street carts in Xalapa and around the port of Veracruz sell it in plastic cups, sometimes with a peanut or chili garnish.
Why it's made this way: The drink grew out of Xalapa's street-cart culture in the highlands of Veracruz state, where cheap sugarcane liquor and abundant fruit made for an easy improvised cocktail.
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