A New York businessman is launching a new kosher tequila in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Martin Silver says Agave 99 will be on the market in time for the holiday that celebrates Mexico’s defeat of French forces on May 5, 1862.
Silver, president of Long Island-based Star Industries, says he wants to satisfy the craze for high-end tequila with one that observant Jews can drink.
Silver says a half-million cases of the 99-proof kosher tequila are being produced at a Mexican plant using methods certified by a rabbi. It will retail for $41.95 a bottle.
The product launch — with Mexican songs sung in both Yiddish and Spanish — is set for May 5, but it will also be sold earlier for Passover, which starts at sundown April 8 this year.
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The cowboy way
400 pounds of “Rocky Mountain Oysters” are expected to be fried up Monday for the annual Testicle Festival in Oakdale, Calif.
$50 The amount diners pay for the sit-down meal to benefit the Oakdale Cowboy Museum, which draws an average 450 people and last year raised $28,000.
Robber’s ill-advised target: police confab
HARRISBURG, Pa.SAGINAW, Mich. — A retired police chief says he was robbed by “probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania.”
It happened Friday at a police officers’ convention near Harrisburg, where 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio were gathered.
John Comparetto says that as he came out of a stall in the men’s room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money.
Comparetto gave up his money and cellphone. But when the man fled, Comparetto and some colleagues chased him. They arrested 19-year-old Jerome Marquis Blanchett of Harrisburg as he was trying to leave in a taxi.
When a reporter asked Blanchett for comment as he was led out of court, he said, “I’m smooth.”Man becomes too attached to his car
A Michigan man has learned not to stick his fingers in certain places.
Victor Harris was pouring a fuel additive into his Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicle Thursday when a piece of paper fell into the gas-tank tube. Harris tried to fish the paper out, but his index finger became stuck in the tube.
WJRT-TV reported Harris tried to extract his digit for two hours before friends called the fire department. It took another two hours before emergency responders cut the gas-tank tube out of the vehicle.
Doctors later removed Harris’ finger from the tube. He received two stitches.
Compiled from wire reports
