While we crowned our winner based on the pure goodness of El Camino's house marg, we must confess that we occasionally love one of those white-trash margaritas, even (especially) when they're made with questionable ingredients and served frozen. And through the warm spring and summer months, we plan to keep drinking white-trash margaritas, reporting on what we find during our quest.
Up first: the strawberry house maragarita at La Loma.
La Loma's regular margs are made using 30-30 Reposado, triple sec and sweet and sour mix. Sometimes they're delicious. Sometimes they're watered-down and merely drinkable. So we like making the beverage trashier classier by ordering the strawberry flavor, frozen, which masks the watered-down nature of the original with sweet, sweet artificial flavoring and a sugared rim.
With a basket of chips and salsa for dinner, we can belly up to La Loma's ornate bar and down these margs (or one birdbath-sized version) all night long -- without regard for the inevitable hangover that punishes our poor choices the next day.
Have your own favorite white-trash margarita? Tell us about it in the comments.