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[edit] Local Dollar

since we are talking about Mexico in this article, and the official currency of Mexico is the peso, shouldn't it be in pesos?, anyways, what the heck is a local dollar??? 201.129.11.121 06:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC) is aguamiel the same as agave syrup? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.34.239.254 (talk) 17:50, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Secret ingredient ocpatli to pulque

I have to inform you -in order for future expanding of the article- that there sometimes was a secret ingredient to the pulque, named ocpatli or ocpantli (depending Nahuatal or Tehuana language). Oc stand for October and the secret ingredient was added at the October festivities. The flowering of that secret ingredient is in October. Al the scrolls have been destroyed by the Church, so no-one knows what plant it is. Some language books say it was "resinosa"; sticky. One would think about marihuana flowers, but according to a Oaxacan anthropologist, that plant was not available in teh America's at that time. Furthermore almost the same letters as in ocpatli, are in Copal; a sticky juice from a specific tree. When hardened, they're used as a burning smelling stick in churches and should take away bad spirits. No idea if and what made the language connection with copal, but its a candidate. Sources: library of the botanic garden of Oaxaca MM 84.81.213.44 (talk) 00:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Must be some confusion, possibly mistranslation. Oc does not stand for 'October' (instead can mean 'once, first' or 'always'), and pantli means 'wall' or 'ridge'. Probably you intend the word ocpahtli, which indeed is a plant used to facilitate the maguey liquor fermentation process, and bestows its colour. It's derived from pahtli 'medicine, potion' (esp. plant-derived); the word copal is quite unrelated. I don't think ocpahtli is a "secret ingredient", per se. --cjllw ʘ TALK 00:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)