What Indio means
Indio is a Mexican drink name of Spanish origin meaning "Indian, indigenous person". It comes from Spanish indio (of India; applied by Europeans to indigenous Americans). It is pronounced EEN-dyoh, and it is most associated with Nuevo León.
A brand name from Cervecería Cuauhtémoc in Monterrey, whose early label pictured the emperor Cuauhtémoc. In Mexican Spanish indio is often used as an insult, so this is not a neutral word to translate casually.
About this origin. The etymology is uncertain, disputed, or the name is a modern brand rather than an old word. The reading above is the best-supported one; food writing repeats stories that the dictionaries do not confirm.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: Agua fresca, horchata, atole, tepache, pulque, mezcal. Most Mexican drink names are the name of the plant or grain they are made from, and the agave spirits are named for the towns and regions that make them.
