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What follows is an ACTUAL press release sent out today to Latino journos and bloggers, probably because we love to write about disgusting things that “sound” Latin (I know I do.)
I’m not even going to try to analyze this. I’m just filing it under the “crime,” “guácala,” and “stupid propositions,” categories.
SIGH.
Add jalapeños to the long list of grievances against my people (i.e. The Mexicans.)
In the latest episode of a trade war brewing between Mexico and the European Union, Mexican producers of chile peppers are asking the UE for protection of fresh jalapeño chiles –and those that undergo smoking (ie. delicious chipotles.)
The problem?
Chiles from Turkey are sold in Europe with a label showing a jalapeño pepper wearing a Mexican hat, said Jesús Murillo González, but do not state the country of origin. “They’re not saying it’s from here, but they’re riding the coattails of Mexico’s prestige.”
Hey, I’m totally cool with countries riding the coattails of Mexico’s prestige but… putting a sombrero over a jalapeño?! That’s simply unacceptable –and an insult to our 1986 beloved FIFA mascot
Via: Milenio
Have you ever had a delicious meat-filled, spicy tamal but thought: ‘Heck, this is is missing something?’
Worry no more: Señorita Sensi, a San Diego-based maker of Mexican edibles, has you covered.
As founder Yvanne Castañeda, a legitimate marijuana medical patient, told the local press:
“I wanted to focus on my culture […] so, I came up with medicated elotes, tamales, quesadillas, agua de limón, sopas, menudo, albóndigas. [Our Mexican food] is as authentic as it gets in the nation.”
And to think I have been avoiding California for decades…
Come on, you know you want to go follow them on Instagram.
Via: Merryjane.com
I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried.
Turns out the Mayor of the mostly indigenous town of Ixhuatlancillo, Veracruz, has spent several thousands of pesitos to build –and erect– several statues honoring members of The Avengers and The Justice League.
It should be noted that the town doesn’t even have a movie theatre and (I’m pretty sure) there are more urgent stuff to take care of. But, who the hell cares? When it comes to surreal politics, MEXICO IS THE SHIT!
Via: Sopitas
If a group of Mexican scientists have their way, we will be seeing the Mexican flag on the surface of the Moon very, very soon.
No, really.
According to a very reliable source I’ve never heard of, a group of scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM) is working on deploying eight small robots that will eventually set foot on the surface of the Moon as soon as 2019. Once there, they say, they will do the most obvious thing one does when getting there: PLANT A FREAKING FLAG!
But that will only be the beginning, I’m told. Sources close to the project assure me the next phase will be even more exciting: A taquería!
¡Ajúa!
Via: México.mx
Sadly, they don’t sell ‘gringas’ there…
Photo: Laura Martínez (Mexico City)
It’s pretty safe to say that this blogger couldn’t care less about the NFL and/or what the Patriots, the Raiders or the Whatevers are up to. However, when the action of the so-called American football makes its way south of the border, things get a bit more interesting.
Take the following promo posted this weekend by the New England Patriots as they gear to face the Oakland Raiders this Sunday in Mexico City.
WATCH as a couple of cute porristas tour Teotihuacán and move about the ancient Aztec ruins wearing tiny shorts, as an inexplicable polka music plays in the background.
It was brief –and hilarious.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this week visited Mexico, partly to address the bilateral agenda, discuss the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA,) and –very likely– to discuss El Loco.
But at some point, during a speech to the Mexican senate, a photographer captured the above image, which of course was crafted into beautiful meme art form.
As I said yesterday: Mexican Twitter never disappoints, so here are only a few of the many images that made the rounds on Twitter Friday afternoon after the great @Vampipe invited his followers to chip in their own ideas.
Mexicans: How can anyone NOT like us?
Marketers are one restless bunch.
Not content with giving us National Taco *and* Vodka Day, National Guacamole Day, Cinco de Mayo and all those wonderful faux culinary celebrations, a California brand of canned “Mexican food” informs me we’re in the midst of National Menudo Month.
Per Juanita’s Food:
Turns out there is so much to celebrate, that the brand in question is launching a national competition to find the BEST MENUDO RECIPE — and to crown the King/Queen of Menudo in two states!
According to the rules of this solemn competition, participants are being asked to bring their homemade menudo to one of the 6 regional menudo tasting events in Texas and California.
The homemade menudo winner in each city will get a $1,000 prize, which should be enough to buy the new iPhone X (without a protective case, that is) –or dozens of Juanita’s Food spicy canned menudo on Amazon.com.
So, now you know.
Enjoy National Menudo Month while I go hang myself.
I don’t know about you, but I do take national holidays very seriously, especially when it comes to drinking and eating like there’s no tomorrow.
So, in celebration of my relatively recent double-citizenship bonanza and the upcoming anniversary of Mexico’s Independence, this blogger will be pulling all her U.S.-based resources to list the very best stuff you can buy/do on THIS SIDE of the border so you feel as if you were on the OTHER side of the border.
Now… I’ll be posting some actual goodies later this week (I’m exhausted, you know?), but for now, I’d like to kick off this year’s festivities with the colorful invite (above) I just received from the Mexican Consulate in New York, which makes it clear our Ángel de la Independencia is as tall as the Empire State Building *and* the Freedom Tower themselves.
So there you go, suckers, ¡Viva México, cabrones!
Move over, tamales en bolsita…
Mexican “food” corporation Dysal S.A. de C.V. — which caters to clients including Walmart and Costco, of course — has come up with this abomination: Ready-to-microwave chiles en nogada… in a box, which I’m sure will be soon available on Amazon.com and the like.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll go hang myself.
Americans from all walks of life took to the streets Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 to protest Donald Trump’s cruelest decision to date: To kill DACA, a program implemented by the Obama administration that granted undocumented children protection from deportation as well as permits to be able to work legally in the US.
The decision sparked nationwide protests, including one outside the Trump Tower in the heart of New York City where dozens of protesters were arrested. Among the brave — and most hilarious — protesters was the woman above, who had a clear message for Donald Trump (or rather his Twitter handle.)
Photo via: @NYSYLC
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, I’m sure you are aware that Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai was in Mexico this week as part of a larger “humanitarian” world tour.
On Thursday, while in Mexico, Malala spoke at the Technological Institute of Monterrey in Mexico City and met president Enrique Peña Nieto, who proudly tweeted a picture of the meeting.
Sooner than you can say “infraschorchor,” Mexicans took to Twitter to do what we do best: To mock our fearless leader.
Here are only a few of the tweets that made my Thursday –and still are helping me get through Friday.
IT’S MALUMA NOT MALALA
EL MEJOR 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/SFzHySUySc
— Risco (@jrisco) 1 de septiembre de 2017
LET’S SING ALONG
– Entonces, mira, después de que yo canto “Malala” tú dices “Lalalong, long long li long long long”. pic.twitter.com/X03FaZIoDC
— 👺 Tanooki Kamikaze (@zomwalruss) 1 de septiembre de 2017
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH… EYEROLL
– …
– 🙄 pic.twitter.com/0ZOvhnvrmj— Edgar G Pichardo 💡 (@ElDeCreativo) 1 de septiembre de 2017
IS IT CHRISTMAS YET?
—¡¿CÓMO QUE NO SALES EN LA PASTORELA?!
— pic.twitter.com/vbTsxFc3Jp— fernando delaflor (@F3rn) 1 de septiembre de 2017
OUCH
“Aquí todas las mujeres tienen derecho a la educación. Mientras lleguen vivas a la edad adulta. Pero bueno, me estoy desviando”. pic.twitter.com/VZlcj91cp7
— Hara Kitty (@InfantaSinalefa) 1 de septiembre de 2017t
THURSDAY
Jueves con sed de la malala. pic.twitter.com/ru4i83hFAR
— fernando delaflor (@F3rn) 31 de agosto de 2017
OUCH II
Ella estuvo a punto de perder la vida por querer ir a la escuela.
Él plagió su tesis y es incapaz de nombrar 3 libros.@Malala y @EPN pic.twitter.com/2cCADgg8MO
— OSWALDO RÍOS 🌐 (@OSWALDORIOSM) 1 de septiembre de 2017
KEEPING HER DISTANCE
Malala pidió no acercarse mucho a EPN porque cree que la #corrupción es una enfermedad contagiosa en México. pic.twitter.com/5G63OX4jAI
— Guruchuirer (@guruchuirer) 1 de septiembre de 2017
