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right hello everyone and welcome back to Durango in north western mexico this is my third travel
theme video coming from Durango city itself and you know what today we're just gonna jump straight
into it i'm heading to mercado gomez palacio which is just up that road to eat scorpions brilliant
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so amigos yes this is actually happening we are having tacos de alacran something
quite famous in durango firstly let's have a look at the setting behind me typical mexican market
you heard the accordion players um playing music a minute ago and it's just awesome
we'll have a look at this place in a bit more detail in a minute so tacos scorpion
jesus christ why do i do these things the thing i want to say about scorpions obviously there's
a bit of an ethical dilemma perhaps there was a situation in mexico city a few years ago about
taqueria that was selling tarantulas on tacos i believe they were told they couldn't do it anymore
potentially this is similar i'm not going to touch on the ethical things of eating scorpions but the
thing is with scorpions here in Durango Durango is well known for even the football team is called
las alacranes or a nickname the scorpions and they're extremely prevalent here famous in mexico
for being the place where there are scorpions not just prevalent they're almost seen as a plague so
i've seen one in the city but obviously if you go to you know on the mountain look under rocks
and things you'll see them and the thing is with scorpions they're extremely resilient so
i believe they've been around for like 400 million years obviously well before the dinosaurs along
with cockroaches they'll probably be the things that are left when we're gone and there are over
2 000 species of scorpion across the whole world i believe but only about 25 of them
are highly venomous i.e dangerous lethal to humans and when i say humans i mean adults so children
babies are obviously much more susceptible because they're smaller or something i don't know
but um that's a bit about scorpions we're going to continue to eat this beautiful angel now can
i call it that it's not fluffy it's not cute and it hasn't got pores so it comes on a corn tortilla
obviously the scorpion whole with i believe it's manchego cheese and lettuce and tomato underneath
so as you can see completely whole scorpion with the tail on with the stinger thing there hint
says whole body i'll talk about in a moment about how they prepare this accordions back i think i'm
just gonna take a bit off the end because they're incredibly difficult to chew i've got the stinger
yeah very difficult to chew it's got a very strong taste of alcohol tequila i think because
when they bring them down from the mountain they store them in alcohol
and i just saw that a moment ago you can see it now a little jar of some sort of alcohol
and it's got quite an overpowering taste of um tequila the difference between this and one i had
in thailand is the one in thailand was very crispy and crunchy it didn't really taste of anything
but this it has a taste and it's a little bit more i don't know squidgy in a way apologies
for anyone that is squeamish i imagine the pinchers are pretty much the same
Oh my absolute God look at it underneath oh lord come on focus there we go
and if you're thinking that it's got like my hands are shaking if you think it's got like
guts inside it hasn't it's hollow because when the woman's preparing it she takes out
the alcohol puts it when she cuts it open and washes it obviously you have to wash it
and all this goop comes out like this gray mush there are guts beautiful and
as you can see it's completely hollow inside come on david grow some balls
body tequila in fact i think it tasted tequila more than anything else
this is stunning quality content
um okay let's have a quick perusal through the rest of this market as always
one of the hola one of the amazing things about these markets is you know the communal dining i
love it all around all these different places and also just like most of them you have a lot
of souvenir places so clearly there is tourism in durango maybe it's not international but whatever
spoke to a lady yesterday this is mezcal with scorpions in
obviously just a touristy thing you can do fruit and veg there was an abuela back there
i thought she was going to hit me with a chancla because i think she was angry
that i was filming hola whereas that is in this bit flowers um it kind of smells of marijuana
that should come in but i think it is just the aroma from the lovely flowers
okay i want to show you something on the way out there's the scorpion place i ate at i'm probably
not going to have scorpions again i'm thinking i'm just going to stick to a mango boiling in a
packet of donitas and roxo going forward yeah just connecting things to the last video the
wild west one there's a lot of leather places look over there people working on leather and i'm not
very good with horse vocabulary stirrups i know that one um there are horse things saddle that's
it lovely i was going to say every time i burp now it tastes of tequila scorpion beautiful and
i was going to say that place last margaritas when i was researching it seems to be the only place in
durango where you can get alacran probably wrong but at least it's somewhere you can go and also
i know scorpionologists that's not a real thing but you might be wondering about like the venom
or poison apparently due to the fact that either the scorpion is dead the fact that it's stored in
alcohol or through the cooking process of heating that's why you can eat them the venom slash
poison is now unpotent i think that's the right word anyway we're going on to our next spot now
but before we do if you are enjoying this video and indeed my Durango series don't forget to
subscribe down there and you can catch subsequent videos bloody brilliant anyway let's get going
i've walked on to Guadiana Park and it feels a bit like chapultepec park in mexico city you've
got like this big long walkway as you come in with stalls and food and souvenirs and things goes down
to a lake with a little funfair thing a train and on that lake you can get like you know those
pedalo things and pedal on the lake and i think i'm kind of desensitized to this kind of place now
because if you go back a few years to chapultepec park there was this whole thing at the time about
you know how dare mexico have green spaces and parks like any other country does there
was this belief that mexico is just full of hell but it's not as you can see from the wonderful
shots that you're seeing at the moment and i'd just like to point out that parque guadiana
will be the last location you'll see of drone shots because i went to land it after filming
then all of a sudden it shot up into the air vertically a million miles an hour and disappeared
fantastic so i'm slightly tense right now but anyway at least i'm in a lovely
location
okay we're back in centro and the place we're going to up here is not called tacos woody as
i keep calling it it's actually called what's it called tortoise willy that's it all cars
okay this road sign could be a giveaway foreshadowing a future video location zacatecas
no we've been there three times what about the other two take a guess let me know in the comments
ah here we go
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don't think today is my day scorpions far away drones and now no discada yeah discarded terminal
but don't panic because even though this video is turning into one that i would only describe as
oaxaca-esque hilariously disastrous i wouldn't be a not so sexy youtuber without a backup
okay i think this place is called el centauro centauro centaur the horse man guy right
we're not having video don't panic we've had it a million times it's closed come on david think
okay when in doubt come home and order an uber eats okay seriously i'm not winding you up but
there's no power great news the power's back on and even better news i finally have food
these are called mulitas they look like gorditas and we've got our pastor of course classic mexican
takeaway um you know the little salsas in the little pots or in mexico city you normally
get them in little plastic bags the secret is to keep them afterwards and use them in other things
apparently that's an abuelita secret anyway let's tuck in so i've looked up the word mulita and it's
armadillo the only reason i can think these are called mulitas is because it's got like a
hard top as in two tortillas and inside there's lots of meat this one is al pastor and cheese
inside absolutely stunning and of course we have our pastor just regular with of course all of that
cilantro lemon onion and i've got to say they are so much better than the food i had in guanajuato
the al pastor iwas diabolical um these are fantastic almost on mexico city levels of
amazingness okay i'm just going to eat the mulita plain pretty much look at that baby
you don't know how good it is to finally have food because clearly that alacran did not
fill me up earlier oh it's just amazing the thing i want to say about this sort of food
in Durango gorditas are everywhere obviously you can get them everywhere in
mexico but they're particularly prominent among Durango gastronomy
look at all the cheese from the meat it's certainly better than the scorpion
right so i have discada in another video i promise and while i eat my food finally have a meal i just
want to highlight about the fact that this video has been a bit of a disaster mayhem
entropy as something gets gradually worse and worse due to matters out of your control
but you know what [ __ ] happens i'm not going to look at it in a negative way as i probably
would have done in the oaxaca video i'm looking at it in a positive way because that's life i've
still got my health i've still got mulitas which are bloody brilliant um and that's
that so i hope you enjoyed the scorpions and my catalogue of disaster throughout this video
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retention watch time lovely i'll see you next time from somewhere in durango where hopefully
things will be open and i won't lose any expensive technology brilliant i'll catch you later