Cinco De OH NO!!!

On May 5th, my girlfriend Lindsay and I fulfilled our duty as upper middle class white people living in Brooklyn to go out for Mexican Food. As UMCWPLIB (if I get that shirt made will anyone buy it?), we understood it would somehow be "offensive" if we went to Taco Bell or Chipotle, so we took a gamble on a neighborhood Tex-Mex place called Lobo.

Mexican food is kind of like sex - when it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad, you get terrible diarrhea. The food at Lobo was closer to the former - not remarkable by any means, but far from sickness inducing.

The star of the night was the Michelada, a cocktail that Christian introduced to me about a year ago. Michelada is essentially beer with Bloody Mary ingredients. As a huge Bloody Mary fan, Michelada is the only beer cocktail I've ever had, and the only one I really care to try (normally I'd be all, "get this shit out of my beer"). The recipe calls for a Mexican beer as the base - generally Negro Modelo, which now that I think of it I have never had NOT in a Michelada - along with lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, hot sauce, black pepper and salt for the rim. Add ice to remind yourself you're not in Mexico, breathe a deep sigh of relief for your good fortune and enjoy.

If you haven't had one of these before, give it a try. Even if you aren't nuts about Bloody Mary's, you'll still find these surprisingly refreshing. Michelada's are also great drinks to bust out at dinner parties which, if you're a UMCWPLIB like me, you'll be attending at least one of this week.