# What is a "Chelita" (Mex. Slang?)

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**Created:** [March 30, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347 "2017-03-30T14:15:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/21 "2017-04-05T00:41:54Z")

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> [@bordelond](#):
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> [Seven-ounce pony bottles?](http://www.chuckthomas.com/rrock/images/rrtapac7.jpg) 😃

I thought of those! Never came across 'en in Mexico. There, you’re more likely to find those massive double-sized beer bottles, called “caguamas” (sea turtles) in the south, or “ballenas” (whales) in the north. I suppose you could call them “chelotas” – “big brewskis” – though I haven’t heard that.

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/22 "2017-04-05T04:48:47Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> I thought of those! Never came across 'en in Mexico. There, you’re more likely to find those massive double-sized beer bottles, called “caguamas” (sea turtles) in the south, or “ballenas” (whales) in the north. I suppose you could call them “chelotas” – “big brewskis” – though I haven’t heard that.

Here in the Yucatán, caguamas (1 liter bottles) are mostly extinct. They have been replaced with the misilé (1.2 liter bottles).

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/23 "2017-04-05T04:52:49Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> Good researching! Go enjoy a beer (but just a little)!

Exactly. Here in the Yucatán, let’s go have a chelita, means, let’s go have a few beers. Not get toasted. But sometimes it leads to getting toasted.

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**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/24 "2017-04-05T10:09:25Z")

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> [@harmonicamoon](#):
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> Here in the Yucatán, caguamas (1 liter bottles) are mostly extinct. They have been replaced with the misilé (1.2 liter bottles).

:eek:

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**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/25 "2017-04-06T17:31:32Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> Michelob-mix? Una blanca more like.
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> ETA: ninja’ed. I actually thought michelada was a joke…

My experience with micheladas is limited to a couple of short holidays in Mexico, most recently (but still 9 years ago) my honeymoon. What they called a michelada was IIRC beer with hot sauce and lime juice, in a salt-rimmed glass. I don’t recall whether there was also a chelada.

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**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-a-chelita-mex-slang/783347/26 "2017-04-06T19:12:25Z")

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I’m trying to remember a nice normal-slangy way to Mexicans of naming/calling for a beer like “a couple of cold ones”–something which literally says “gimme two with some snow on top.”

[I might’ve OP’d this and been told once before, it seems to me…:o]

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