Mezcal was cool about 15 years ago, but like the waves of nausea that occur whenever you drink it, its come back again. ‘Mezcal is not tequila’, you must say, ‘In fact, tequila is a type of mezcal’. What you mean is that you’re not allowed to have fun with this drink, you can’t knock it back in a shot round with your buddies. Instead, you have to sip it like a whisky and talk about it in relation to the other varieties you’ve tried, commenting on its smokiness and oakiness, clinging onto half-remembered knowledge as the nausea rises again and you sense the Feeld date sat glassy-eyed opposite now rapidly losing faith in you even as a potential snog, never mind a partner for the journey into techno-magick future-sex that is well within their skillset. Still, do you want to be so 2024, or not?