Talk:Mexican pool

A look through Google Books finds a lot of: There are some uses of "Mexican pool joint", "Mexican pool room", and "Mexican pool hall", but it's hard to tell if they're idiomatic or literal. For example: — Beobach 00:52, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * "“That's not entirely accurate, my darling Virginia,” Bebe said, shaking her long mane of hair. “I got caught making it with the Mexican pool boy. That was my real offense. An unthinkable crossing of class lines.”"
 * "We picked limes and bananas from the trees just outside our door, gamboled on the lawns, mused in the gardens, even sat on the grand veranda and dipped into the very Mexican pool."
 * There are Mexican pool rooms, Mexican barber-shops, Mexican stores, [...]

RFV
The supposed definition was: "A putative variant of pool or billiards wherein players attempts to make shots called by their opponents."

Tagged but not listed. I have no opinion. Mglovesfun (talk) 16:16, 29 January 2011 (UTC) Shooting pool is a favorite pastime (mainly for men) in Mexico City, as it is throughout Latin America. The game of choice at most Mexican billiard parlors is pool, where in balls 1-15 are lined up around the sides of the table and are sunk in order. Several players, rather than just two, can play at the same time (as in the common U.S. game cut-throat). Second in popularity is ocho bola, or eight-ball, played much like it is in the United States. so I assume that by "Mexican pool" the guide-book is referring back to that description of pool. That doesn't match our explanation at all, and even if that usage appeared in other books, I wouldn't be totally sold on its being idiomatic.
 * This guide-book speaks of "local men drinking beer and shooting Mexican pool beneath fluorescent lights" at a certain pool hall in Mexico City, but the previous page says this: BILLIARDS
 * (of course, it's quite conceivable that some Americans play a game they call "Mexican pool", just as Egyptian ratscrew is not actually how Egyptians play ratscrew and Martian chess is not actually how Martians play chess; but b.g.c. turns up absolutely no evidence of that. The phrase "Mexican pool hall" occurs in many books, but clearly means a pool-hall owned and/or frequented by Mexicans, not an establishment for the playing of "Mexican pool" in any sense.)
 * —Ruakh TALK 23:25, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 07:45, 15 August 2011 (UTC)