The area around our local hospital in San Pedro de los Pinos, with the busy ins and outs of sick people, nurses, doctors and equipment providers is also a hotbed for food entrepreneurs.
How can anyone not love Mexico?
Photo: Laura Martínez
Category: Why I Love Mexico
Coke-Zero Makes you Delusional Enough to Think Mexico Can Win the World Cup One Day
Here is the much awaited Coke-Zero spot featuring our beloved “Chicharito” trying out new things in his newly adopted country.
He is so taken by Coke Zero and trying out new things, that he even drives on the “wrong” side of the road and gets all delusional about Mexico winning the World Cup some day.
¿Por qué no?
Pepe el Toro Knocks Out Rocky Balboa in Never-Before-Seen Boxing Bout
Hat tip: Hazme el Chingado Favor
Philly Union Not Happy at Prospect of Wearing ‘This’
And speaking of popular clothing, The Philadelphia Union, a MLS team, is undergoing its own T-shirt drama: Thanks to a multimillion dollar sponsorship by Mexican food giant Grupo Bimbo, the team’s players are going to have to run around wearing the company’s logo or -as many are already calling it, the “offending moniker” BIMBO.
The season hasn’t even started, but some fans are speaking up about the whole thing. At least one fan has said she would not attend games with her kids until the misogynistic slur was removed from the team players chests.
“Misogynistic”? Wait ’till she gets her hands on a Negrito Bimbo. I’m sure she will throw a fit.
Watch below to see Philly Union’s CEO talk about Bimbo and the sacred ground that is the team’s jersey:
Polo Ralph Lauren Might be Overlooking Huge Branding Opportunity in Mexico
I don’t know you, but if I were the marketing fellows at Polo Ralph Lauren I would be jumping on a major branding opportunity going on right now South of the Rio Grande: For some strange reason, it looks like every crook, rapist, kidnapper, drug dealer we succeed in catching, show up wearing the exact same type of Polo Ralph Lauren shirt, looking as proud as I would be wearing a pair of Prada shoes.
Will Polo Ralph Lauren wake up and smell the café? If not, can the rest of us try to persuade these fellows to switch brands so at least some of us can make a little out of the whole thing? Por favor?!
Hat tip: Hazme el chingado favor
How to Say Choco Mil in Proper English
Ah…. Mexico! How I love your food, your beverages, your liquefieds (licuados) and -more importantly- your English-language menus.
Photo: Laura Martínez (Chiapa de Corzo, CHIS.)
English Spoken in Frontera Corozal, Chiapas
Santas Trompetas! Mariachi-Clad Santas Take Over New York City
One of the many perks of living in New York City is that, no matter where you go -or what mood you’re in- you will always bump into a band of authentic mariachis wearing Santa hats. Well, maybe not always, but it happened to me this week at the unbearably touristy, and easily avoidable Columbus Circle shopping mall.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering: that thing showing behind the glass is one of Salvador Dalí’s famous melting watches. How cool is this!
Mexican Entertainment Takes Over the ‘Big Apple’
Not content with scaring the bejesus out of white families around the nation’s freeways, the Mexicans are now taking over the heart of the Big Apple: Times Square.
Open 7 days a week, the Mexican Bar -and its scantily clad señoritas– is waiting for you to celebrate its gran “inaguración,” which is kind of like an “inauguración” but way, way better.
So what are YOU waiting for? Come have some real Latin fun! This joint is 100% mMexicano [sic].
Having Solved its Most Urgent Problems, Mexico Sets Out to Prepare World’s Largest Taco
Move over Joe & Iman. The Australian pair might have prepared the world’s largest burger, but that beauty pales in comparison with what Mexico City has put together: Meet (or shall I say ‘meat’?) the 40-meter beef taco. So big and delicious, it will make all our troubles go away.
¡Viva el Bicentenario!
Daryl Cagle Annoys the Hell Out of Mexicans… Even Paulina Rubio Knows Our Flag is Sacred
If Mexicans needed another reason to vent their ire against a gringo (any gringo) they found a good one this week. Provocative political cartoonist Daryl Cagle really managed to piss off hundreds of Mexicans with what many are calling a “desecration of the Mexican flag.”
Shame on you, Mr. Cagle!!!
Didn’t you know Mexicans are so proud of our flag that we use them to wrap up our beloved celebrities? Gee!
Hat tip to my manito, whom I wish never to see wrapped in anything remotely patriotic
Brooklyn Pigs Happily Swim in Boiling Oil Cazuelas
Say what you want about [legal or illegal] immigration. Mexicans are taking over New York City. Fast.
Proof of it is this wall advertising promoting ricos tacos de carnitas in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, also available para delivery.
I don’t know you, but I’m happy to know New York City pigs look quite happy while swimming in a cazuela of boiling oil.
Justin Timberlake’s Approach to Tequila Not Quite What You’d Expect From a 40-Percent Alcohol Spirit
I’m not sure you care, but turns out the overrated multi-talented Justin Timberlake is the CEO and founder of some concoction known as 901 Tequila, which may or may not be the real thing.
So…. to show us that Agave-based drinks are not only good, but can be classy -and sexy- at the same time, Timberlake directed the following spot, which -according to Creativity– seeks to “position the brand as the more distinguished choice of its agave brethren.”
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Call me old-fashioned, but when I think “tequila” I tend to think of other types of situations, which are not necessarily classy or distinguished but certainly more real.
To wit:
901 Tequila: Great Empire, posted with vodpod
Beware Paisanos! Google Maps is the New Big Brother
Remember the English couple’s first kiss caught by Google Maps?
That is nothing compared to what my people (i.e. Mexicans) have to endure… being caught while breaking into a pick-up truck. Shame on you, Google!
[Click on the picture above -or here– to see the complete photo]
Mexico’s National Soccer Team Might Not Score Goals, But they Know How to Make a Good Sandwich
It is only eight days before Mexico faces South Africa in the first match of this year’s 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament. So, the folks from the Mexican national soccer team are busy making, well, Bimbo sandwiches… which is not at all bad, because they could be drinking and smoking…
Oh, wait, they are doing that, too!
oh, and one more thing: since when is a sandwich ‘el alimento ideal’?
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