Pulque, as you drink it, looks like milk and water, and has a mild smell and taste of rotten eggs.

Tortillas are like oat-cakes, but made of Indian corn meal, not crisp, but soft and leathery.

We thought both dreadfully nasty for a day or two; then we could just endure them; then we came to like them; and before we left the country we wondered how we should do without them..