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MrBillM
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Changes, Changes
I stopped at the Deposito ayer in San Felipe and the wife walks in to pick up two cases of Corona Extra. She comes out with a kid hauling two cases
of beer on a handtruck and packs it away. After leaving the kid a tip, she gets into the truck and says that the beer has gone up from 125 pesos per
case to 158. As we start to drive off, the gal from behind the counter runs out and tells us we have to pay for the bottles. ?? Mi Esposa walks
back in and, lo and behold, Corona Extra now comes 24 (instead of 20) to a case. The pace of change in Baja is staggering.
Nothing stays the same. The question next time will be whether they accept an additional (4) single bottles as exchange when buying by the case OR
will want to charge for the extras each time.
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DENNIS
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MrBill ---
Actually, the question which comes to mind is, why do you drink Corona?
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gnukid
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Not only did they change to 24 bottles, but now they also have two types of bottles for pacifico at least, retornable y no deposito-no retornable.
Each have different prices. So now you have be careful you know which type you have if you give them the bottles which come with deposit and they sell
you the other type you just lost the money for the deposit. What is the point of coming to mexico if you not going to carry cases of empty bottles
every where you go? Baja is so complicated.
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Cypress
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Jeez! 20 to 24 bottles/case. That's good!! Two types of bottles. No
deposit? Damn!! Might have to quit drinking that stuff.:yes?
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MrBillM
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La Cerveza Mas Fina
Although I have yet to drink a Mexican Beer That I disliked (the old Squat Brown Bottle Corona came closest), day in and day out, I still prefer
Corona Extra. Habit, I guess.
I guess if I wanted to emulate most Mexicans, I'd drink "Bud Light". That seems to be their favorite.
There truly is no accounting for taste. Perhaps that's why Beer (and Women) come in so many colors, fragrances and tastes.
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DanO
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
Perhaps that's why . . . Women . . . come in so many . . . fragrances. |
YIKES!
I don't like 'em to smell anything other than good. And I hope this thread does not take off in this direction.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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bancoduo
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I bought a Tecate in Nv. the other day. I thought it tasted like a Bud, is there a connection?
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Capt. George
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Saint Paulie Girl, that's beer
won't get any in Baja Sur............
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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rts551
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Geeze George. you been gone too long. You know my beer... any that is cold!
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aliibike
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Those new cases don't fit in all the places I designed for them! They also twist when you pick them up. After all the money I have invested in
Pacifico, you'd think they would have consulted me!
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Crusoe
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An ice cold Pacifico "Ballena"......The finest thing ever  known to man(or
woman)..
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DENNIS
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In my area of Baja, there is a saying when the day is nice. It's a "dia cajuamera".
Has nothing to do with Corona or other septic stuff.
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TMW
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Corona here sells for $1 a bottle by the case, plus tax. I seem to remember reading a while back that AB bought part of Corona's parent company
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An ice cold Pacifico "Ballena"......The finest thing ever known to man(or
woman)..
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YES
although a COLD Noche Buena tops all.....
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DENNIS
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Woody ----
So true.
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Dave
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Cold???
| Quote: | | although a COLD Noche Buena tops all..... |
Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. 
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Mexray
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The 70's found us returning to Mazatlan...
...time after time! We 'vacationed' in a small casa in the mexican village on 'Isla de la Piedro', just south of the city center, across the harbor.
Carmalita, an old widow, rulled the roost amongst the beach palapa restaurants that faced the Pacific Ocean. She had the Pacifico 'franchise' for the
'Isla' and the beer sales to the other restaurants provided her with a small 'bite' from all sales...
When the Pacifico truck would arrive from the brewery in Mazatlan with a fresh load of that wonderful amber liquid, about a 1/3 of the space was
devoted to large 'ingots' of solid ice!
The driver and his helper would toss a couple of those ice bergs onto the cement floor of the restaurant, and they would be chipped into more
manageable 'bergs' to toss into the large tray-type coolers that contained neat rows of Pacifico...other tray coolers contained that great cane-sugar
'brewed' Coca-Cola in glass bottles, beaten and worn from years of refilling and knocking around.
We would usually arrive at Carmalita's Palapa with the sun still on the up-swing...head straight for an ice cold Pacifico Ballena con limon! That
first Ballena never seemed to last very long, as we had worked up a real thist, walking the dry, dusty road from the village to the beach! Sipping
additional Ballenas could last us late into the afternoon...along with a shrimp c-cktail, or maybe a charcoal burned, open-faced chicken, or sometimes
a BBQ'ed whole fish, just hauled in from the sea by one of Carmalita's kin!
Those visits really had us in a 'rut'...wake up to the sound of the neighborhood chickens in the morning...brew some fresh coffee as we sat on the
front porch and watched the activity in the harbor below our hillside vantage point...a couple times a week, we'd watch the cruise ships enter and do
a '180' in the middle of the harbor before tying up to the docks. Sometimes they would lifeboat drills in the harbor, usually a fun circus of errors
to watch, as they bumped into each other...
Then it was time for the trek to the beach...maybe sift through a few more chapters of the latest paperback, as we reached into the icy cold trays of
Pacifico laden pleasure! When it was time to leave, Carmalita would ask us how many bottles we'd had, and some pesos changed hands...more that once,
she'd deduct one or two from the count in return for favors we'd done for her in town...
Life in Mazatlan was simple, and it had the effect of adding untold months or years to our lives...Viva Mazatlan!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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pappy
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well, on the road in, a nice cold ballena fits the bill. once at camp, tecate...sabrosa!!
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Yeah Bill - changes!! What happen to the $4 per case + deposit?? Remember the dark Corona bottles! This when only 1 wholesale place in across from the
Miramar.
Switch to vino!
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MrBillM
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Deposit ?
I'm unsure what the current deposit charge is. I'll check the receipt for the "Eight" bottles I had to pay for.
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