1. The Mayor of Veracruz, Mexico commissioned a statue in honor of Edgar Hernandez, the little boy who was the first person in Mexico to come down with swine flu – nothing weird about that. What is bizarre is that little Edgar survived H1N1, and now Mexicans follow him into the bathroom to steal his urine and ‘make themselves swine flu-free’.
2. With an estimated worth of $1 billion, Mexico’s most wanted man Joaquin ‘Shorty’ Guzman has made it onto the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest people this year.
3. Some Mexican culinary delicacies include:
• eyeballs – you must remove the iris, since it's bitter
• bull penis – some people compare it to shrimp (and they say size matters...)
• bull testicles – these are called ‘criadillas’
• grasshoppers
• worms – but not all types (well, that’s a relief!).
(Amigos for dinner, anyone?)
4. Forget Sweden, go to Mexico for a real massage where a local plant mixture is applied to your skin with cactus paddies. It’s said to remove toxins and rejuvenate you. The itchy service is quite costly, starting from £130 (about AUD$230) per hour. Might be worth it – if you like it rough.
5. The Spanish/Mexican artist, Santiago Sierra, created an exhibition of human excrement at London's Lisson Gallery. The 21 blocks of shit each measure 215 x 75 x 20cm and were collected by ‘scavengers’ in New Delhi and Jaipur, India.
Image: m_bartosch
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