I was ten and it was the week between Xmas and New Years. My aunt and grandmother decided to visit my sister and I for the holidays. What to do?
This is my review of Simple Machine Brewing Lotería Mexican Style Amber:
It was a fairly quick visit as my grandmother (now 85) has nine children, and around 25-30 grandchildren. I don’t know them all but I am the third oldest of them so while I tend to get more visits they are also fairly short. That day they brought a game my aunt picked up last time she was in Mexico, and they picked up nine of them so each family got one.
Nobody among my aunt, grandmother, mother, sister and I had no idea what was in this cheap box. It was a deck of 54 cards with old pictures on it. There were 12 larger cards with the same old pictures on it arranged in a 4×4 grid. No instructions were provided.
”So how do you play it”. I asked.
”You know what? Something about this looks familiar.” My aunt said.
La Lotería Mexicana is a classic board game. Played similar to bingo except you don’t shout out the corresponding number. The cantor, or the person drawing the card is supposed to give a riddle about the image on the card. The players then guessed the image on the card and marked it on their own cards. How do you mark it? With a dried bean of course. While the images are clearly from a time where a caricature of a black man can be printed and sold to children, the game itself has a much longer history:
The traditional lotería has its roots in 15th century Italy, where it traveled to Spain. The Spanish brought the game to Mexico in the 18th century, around 1769.
Initially played by the elite, La Lotería Mexicana grew in popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries thanks to traveling fairs, known as ferias. These ferias brought farmers and families together, and a few games of La Lotería became popular at the events. Cantors would recite their description or riddle about the card drawn. Once the crowd had identified the card, the game would continue.
Early tablas were made of cardboard or tin on which the characters were painted. These Italian Renaissance-influenced art subjects like the sun (el sol), the moon (la luna), and the stars (la estrella) are known today as the campechana set. The iconography changed during the years according to fashions and social contexts until the end of the 19th century.
My sister and I would play it during the summer when it was a bit too hot out to play outside. Yes, the winner shouted “bingo.”
So now that you know the context, how is this as a beer? Its a classic Mexican Vienna Lager. Like the game, it arrived to Mexico from Europe and they sort of made it into their own thing. Its malty, low in hops, and in this case carbonated fairly heavily but most of the time people just drink this type of beer straight from the can while driving on a hot day. Nothing too out of the ordinary but it at least brought back a couple childhood memories. Simple Machine Brewing Lotería Mexican Style Amber: 3.1/5
Sometimes when I cant sleep I indulge in fantasy. One of them is that I am stupid rich and can afford to spend as much money as I want on a library. What would I put in there?
I dream up all kinds of books, models, historical items, etc.
This board game may seem like a trivial bit of history but for my library it would be a ‘must have’.
Interesting.
What would I put in there?
Slutty Donna Reed?
Even motherly Donna Reed!
To be honest it was older than I thought. I was thinking 1880’s
Allow me to introduce you to the imported versions in Japan.
Karuta (かるた, from Portuguese carta [“card”])
The particularly weird one that your discussion reminded me about with the cantor is called:
Uta-garuta
It uses reader in similar fashion and is also played as physical game testing listening and reaction time as well as hand eye skill. It’s actually played competitively.
people just drink this type of beer straight from the can while driving on a hot day
And throw the empties at street signs?
Only if you want to make a fake Native American cry.
Yes. Just throw it out the window.
A well dressed black man? What a demeaning stereotype.
I think the ito ending makes that a well dressed black boy.
It’s a term of endearment.
Who you calling “boy”?
I see what you did there.
” Its malty, low in hops, and in this case carbonated fairly heavily”
I like malt, not sure about the carbonation.
The carbonation helps with the foghorn loud belches to warn other drivers.
Ted…is that you?
I am not a tater.
“Hookers are more honest generally, they provide a service for a specified price. She is a gold digger extraordinaire. Ole Bill seems like a pretty dim bulb outside of his specialty.”
There is some thought that she used to work as the more honest type.
Isn’t this the standard retirement plan?
I thought dead in a dumpster is the standard plan, girlfriend to a rich man is the gold plan.
@Not Adahn – Not sure if you’ll be around to see this, but I managed to scrounge up enough Magazines to bring me up to 6, so I should be good.
Enjoy your new pistola, UCS.
El Negrito looks like a sharp dressed man.
Its a classic Mexican Vienna Lager. Like the game, it arrived to Mexico from Europe and they sort of made it into their own thing. Its malty, low in hops, and in this case carbonated fairly heavily but most of the time people just drink this type of beer straight from the can while driving on a hot day. Nothing too out of the ordinary but it at least brought back a couple childhood memories. Simple Machine Brewing Lotería Mexican Style Amber: 3.1/5
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Sounds tasty.
The moment I read “Mexican Vienna” I thought of this: https://youtu.be/yfB7vF7nCdA?si=hVMrAR8vEclwuP2j
Yes, it is tasty.
I like them, except I feel like I can drink dozens of them and sweat them all off.
I have had a few days were a 18 pack of Tecate disappeared while working on the back yard.
And then came siesta time.
Local(ish) beer news: Half Door in San Diego is closing tomorrow. The location is being taken over by Villains Brewing. Hopefully they’ll keep the leather couches and old books.
https://sandiegomagazine.com/food-drink/half-door-brewing-closing/
Speaking of local brewing news, not too long ago I recall a discussion about stouts being like motor oil [scroll down].
Is SD local-ish to you?
I’d wanted to go there just because they had a beer named after Father Ted. I don’t get downtown often though.
I’m in south OC, so sorta localish.
I did not know that. SoCal is rather underrepresented among the Glibs.
I have not been to the East Village in forever. Looks like I missed a good one.
A week well done.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/the-week-in-pictures-escape-from-alcatraz-edition.php
A commie Bears fan pope, shudder.
He is known as a deep dish thinker.
To our “Napoli Man” – West Marine sells a basic tan hat with a good, but not excessive, brim at a moderate price. They do ship to APO addresses.
I have used these for years while sailing because they protect me from the sun. I grew up in AZ when we still put on nothing to protect our skin, or put on sun tan oils.
But to really make the local style I think you need to dress like Steve Zissou when you visit Capri.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/mediaviewer/rm272207616/?ref_=tt_ph_1_1
And you should visit Capri in the off season (Nov-Mar). No car needed.
Seriously? New Toyota Turbo V6 has a 40k spark plug change interval.
Shop time 2.5 hours at this independent Toyota specialist and dealers at his area charging 5 hours at $200/hour.
How To Change Spark Plugs on Toyota’s New Twin Turbo V6 V35A-FTS Engine
I used to think it was stupidity. It’s not stupidity.
No. It’s emissions compliance, ease of assembly and dealer revenue.
Car owners are not the customers of car manufacturers.
That’s nuts.
What’s the automotive equivalent of a hanger queen? At least a pavement princess gets out on the road.
Spark plug? On a new vehicle?
Yup.
I assume it is either directly emissions related or indirectly emissions related because of the boost pressures and lean fueling strategies they have to do in order provide both performance and meet current emissions.
Turbos like a lean mixture all the way until a hole gets burned in the piston.
Chrysler’s “Hurricane Six” with 9.5:1compression and 26 PSI. Stock.
Should be no problem to reliably tune…
Lily Tang Williams on her mother
A tribute to resilience and resistance on Mother’s Day
My mother Huai Bin passed away in November 2020 at the age of 77 in Colorado. Her life in China was so tragic, and it took me a long time to write about her life and death because I had to confront the complex feelings and meaning of her legacy.
I loved my mother for her kind and gentle soul. She was meek, although often in ways I did not understand: bulliable, submissive, and conflict averse. Her interactions with Chinese Communist Party officials were characterized by obedience and tolerance of their inhumane treatment of people like herself.
I am haunted by a childhood memory of when she got on her knees and begged a CCP official for a raise at her factory job. She sacrificed her dignity only to be cruelly denied.
That is a heart wrenching tribute.
New Toyota Turbo V6 has a 40k spark plug change interval.
But they only cost $20 each.
You saved $40 since they dropped the V8 in their large trucks!
Considering those engines are grenading themselves at very unreasonable mileages the spark plug change interval should be the least of a sucker who bought one’s worries.
To Toyota’s credit (GM say fuck you 6.2L owners) they are recalling all the motors they manufactured until after they fixed the manufacturing issue.
GM finally announced they were too last week. A week after their first “fuck you” of a recall involving an oil chnage, new oil cap and page for the owner’s manual. Also extending warranty to 10 year/150k miles on said 6.2 lumps. They only had 28k units die in service before taking this action.
What’s the automotive equivalent of a hanger queen?
I think “trailer queen” is popular.
Also, garage queen.
Speaking of cars- just saw a thing earlier saying Farley (head of Ford) says he doesn’t see a problem with new car prices. It’s no big deal, people can just get 84 month loans.
What a genius. He’ll bail out with a hundred million dollar parachute.
Same as the last dipshit who pushed Ford’s crappy infotainment system that killed their quality ranking. He also started the cost cutting that has them recalling every fucking vehicle today.
He made it so after four Fords I’ll never buy another one.
I laughed when the Street was touting him as a possible successor to Ballmer at Microsoft.
The notion that people can always be squeezed for more now matter how much is all too common.
84 mos? What is the life expectancy of the first part to wear out on these gems?
“84 months”
Buyer beware and personal responsibility and whatnot but what kind of maniac is going to finance an unreliable POS that might be unrepairable for a reasonable amount after the three year warranty runs out? What’s going on in our corporate system where the crème de la retards always seem to rise to the top? The guy shouldn’t be the supervisor for the nighttime janitorial staff much less the CEO.
As Big Auto knows, people will just roll the back end of that loan into their next car. So the paper loss is postponed and it’s factored into the price anyway.
So the real losers are the suckers who pay cash.
So the real losers are the suckers who pay cash.
/kicks pebble
Sounds like Ford shareholders are getting what they voted for good and hard.
I do like a Mexican Vienna Lager. Firetruck Brewing in Tucson made a good one, but they got fucked by their distributor and closed.
I think I reviewed that one, there’s a “muerto” in a fireman’s hat on the label?
I’d check, but I can’t, on account of they’re closed.
Oh well.
Hey-ya! First thoughts from the pic: “Lotteria” (with TWO Ts*) is a popular Korean fast food burger joint. Pretty damn good! One shouldn’t walk into such a place with too much expectation. You know what you walked in there for. Like Seinfeld: “Kramer, I’m not returning fruit to the grocery store. Fruit’s a gamble. I know that going in.”
The Korean burger joint with the best marketing of all time, I just remembered is “No Brand Burger.” The slogan I saw on their soon-to-open shop was simply “Good enough.” And I fell in love, though I left SoKo before it opened. Now, it seems, their full slogan is “Why pay more? It’s good enough.” Solid, but I strongly prefer the previous brevity.
*Other fun thing: My surname is common and simple, and even a first name (with an added S at the end), but is spelled with ONE t. Most have TWO, and we constantly have to tell people how to spell it. Mom took time to adapt to that, so I’m told. I think we’ve all ended up with a ‘lost’ reservation cuz of it. Once, an airline ‘forgot’ I had a ticket cuz I didn’t show up on their shit. I showed them my passport to simplify shit. That did not assist their waywardness. It’s nowhere near the woke tranny tedium, but tedious it is.
When the girlfriend and I were in Dublin (several years back) the chain I’m mildly upset we didn’t go into once was Captain America’s. Yes, they had Cap there in neon in the window.
Buyer beware and personal responsibility and whatnot but what kind of maniac is going to finance an unreliable POS that might be unrepairable for a reasonable amount after the three year warranty runs out?
Look, it’s just basic Finance 302. In three years, when your 84 month loan is $40k underwater, you trade in, roll the balance into a new 120 month loan, and sit back and watch the neighbors ooh and aah and say, “How does he do it?”
Lol. It’s funny because it’s true.
🔺🔺
Only way out is bankruptcy.
The Bayesian claims another life. I wonder what the probability of that would have been given what preceded…
Recovery of Mike Lynch’s superyacht stopped after diver dies during salvage mission
Just for you mexican sharpshooter!
A rare platinum Rolex is heading to auction and could fetch $1.7 million
There are so many other watches I’d want instead if forced to spend that sum on one.
Could the band be any uglier?
I’d buy it but, last I checked I was not an Arab Sheik.
That is one of the few Rolex’s I would buy.
Decent band.
Nice day out so what better to do than smoke meat and bathe in mesquite.
Beef back ribs and a eye of round that I will reverse sear.
Cut up that whole beef loin I bought a few weeks back. About to grill filets, with scallops and asparagus.
What time should I be there?
Bout 45 mins? Swing by…food for all
Reverse sear? What, that mean you boil it?
What, that mean you boil it?
Can’t speak of OBE, but for my part in the oven at ~200 ‘Merican degrees for 15-20 minutes depending on thickness, then on screaming hot grill to crust up.
And if that was a joke or in-your-endo I missed; Yep, boil it then invite Harry and Megan over, shove the meat in her piehole and make him watch. He likes boiled meat, it’s in his genes.
The watch is made from platinum, a material Rolex did not use on Daytona models until 2013. Its face is mother-of-pearl, set with 10 diamonds.
A pimp’s watch is different from a square’s watch.
I washed the GTI today and put a coat of spray wax on. Poor thing was covered with tree sperm.
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/05/10/dhs-says-likely-more-arrests-coming-n2412628
Good. I’m sick of this multi tiered justice system bullshit.
https://www.pennlive.com/business/2025/05/amid-bankruptcy-drugstore-chain-is-laying-of-nearly-600-employees-at-its-pa-hq.html
Maybe they can find a judge to force Rite Aid to keep them.
Itd be only just to do so
How does a drug store chain go bankrupt? It is practically a license to print money.
Leverage. Lots of leverage and too many locations.