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).
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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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.
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]