Margaritas

This was actually a post that was supposed to happen a few days ago when we were making Mexican food (tacos and guac) for some friends that were coming over. My roommate had the great idea to make some margaritas for dinner, as wine doesn't go spectacularly with tacos (don't worry, we can drink wine with everything). Thus, we went on a search for the components of Margaritas. We quickly found out that they don't really sell sour mix here, so we tried to think of how to make the margaritas from scratch. Being thoroughly stereotypical (is that a word?) we asked one of our Mexican friends how to make margaritas. He gave us the...I don't know I don't drink them. Ooops, called out on stereotyping, but anyway. I remember how to make the family margaritas, but there were a few other problems. The first was we couldn't find triple sec and the contreau was 18 euro for a small bottle. We had the tequila taken care of, and decided to use this lemon sirop they have here for the yummy drinks like Kool-Aid I referred to earlier in blogging land. But, to top off the margaritas, we went on a search for limes. No dice. We went to 3 markets by our apartment and couldn't find limes or lime juice. We ended up making a concoction of tequila and limon sirop and water, with lemons that ended up being really good. A few days later we asked some of the French students about limes. They didn't really know much about them, but we did find out that there isn't a specific word for limes. They are called green lemons. (citron vert). Huh, good to know.