That is all. We can now go back to our less exciting lives.
Photo via @AristeguiOnline
Taylor Swift Wants you to Know Bodegas are Our Friends
Taylor Swift, who recently bought a $20 million property in Manhattan, has tons of New York City vocabulary to teach you, including what a bodega is all about. (Hint: it’s a corner store, which is open pretty much all the time and -more importantly- is our friend.)
Click here or on the link below (if you dare) to learn a thing or two about this wonderful city in the words of our new “ambassador,” including how to pronounce Houston and why SoHo and NoHo are very different things.
Oh, and please don’t shoot the messenger (i.e. this blogger)
See? Not All ‘Hispanic Food’ Was Created Equal
I haven’t got the first clue of what a ‘Yaroa Santiaguera’ is, which irrefutably proves there isn’t such thing as Latino — or Hispanic– Food.
Otherwise, all 50-plus millions of us the U.S. Census insists on piling together would know what this thing is all about.
[Oh, and the photo is not really helping, Papasito.]
Americans Want to Trick you into Drinking ‘Nopal Water’
The US$5.99 ‘Cactus water’ promises to be 100 percent natural and gluten free. But let me clue you in on a little secret: We don’t really drink “Nopal water,” and even if we did, we wouldn’t pack it inside Tetra Pak and then claim it’s all natural.
Remember: Nothing lives in Tetra Pak without some delicious NaC₇H₅O₂ (aka sodium benzoate.)
Just sayin’
Photo: Laura Martínez
Google’s Latino-Specific Web Domain has Mexicans Talking
Google this month launched a new Web domain – .soy – that is “intended to create a place online for the Hispanic community,” because apparently, we have nothing to do with the whole .com community (or, as I like to call it, the regular Internet.)
But while the new domain has had its detractors and its share of criticism, I can assure you at least my Mexican friends are taking the whole thing very seriously.
To wit.
Gracias, @elementoL2
What Else Were you Going to call a Mexican Restaurant?
Call me crazy, but I think calling your Mexican restaurant Illegal Pete’s might not be a super terrific idea. Still, founder Pete Turner seems unaffected by the “fury” of about 50 people demanding a name change.
I’m sure it must be difficult to embark on a name change, especially if your name is Pete and you already has several restaurants open and many more to come. But, how about Undocumented Pete’s?
Just an idea!
Via: CBS Denver
Finding a Job in Hispanic New York Is a Real Challenge
God, please grant my people the wisdom to properly navigate/figure out job postings in my beloved New York City
Photo: Laura Martínez
Some Dude Claims to be an Expert in ‘Double-Decker Tacos’
You might not know who Tyler Kord is, but according to The Cooking Channel, Tyler Kord is the go-to dude for making double-decker-tacos, an abnormal concoction, which I’m sure is very popular in Tyler Kord’s kitchen and among Tyler Kord’s friends and readers of Tyler Kord’s cooking books.
But what on heavens is a double-decker-taco? … Well, I am glad you asked, because that is the very question being asked by the host of The Cooking Channel: Basically, a double-decker taco is a tortilla wrapped in a hard-shell “taco” using black bean hummus as glue.
And why would anyone do that?
Because, as everybody knows, the world is coming to an end, we’re all close to extinction and nothing makes sense anymore.
Watch the following video below (WARNING: IT’S 5 MINUTES LONG) cringe, but –more importantly– do not try this at home.
Sombrero tip: @Bathtubmedia
Sir Richard Branson Will not be Making you Tacos [Thank God]
So much for the VTG (Virgin Taco Gate).
Virgin, Virgin Mobile and Sir Richard Branson himself vehemently — and hilariously– have denied any involvement with the upcoming taco chain known as Virgin Tacos.
Virgin Mobile Mexico’s press release was actually funny and included some reference to the Virgin Taco Gate:
Unfortunately, we really suck at cooking Mexican food; however, we are very good at treating our customers as rockstars. […]
The “Taco confusion” has led to a series of hilarious tweets by both, Virgin Mobile Mexico and Sir Richard Branson himself, who incidentally was in Mexico this week.
@sopitas @parentesiscom @AlejandroFranco @BienMal_ Muchas gracias por una excelente charla ¿les gustaron los talk-quitos? @virginmobilemx
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) octubre 22, 2014
La competencia está bien enchilada y no por nuestras salsas… ¡por que no hacemos salsas! Damos servicio de telefonía celular como nadie.
— Virgin Mobile México (@virginmobilemx) octubre 22, 2014
Sir @richardbranson, el mero mero de Virgin, está en México. pic.twitter.com/2EOMXsEHbg
— Virgin Mobile México (@virginmobilemx) octubre 22, 2014
Herman Cain’s Diatribe Against Mustachioed Aliens is Brought to you by a Taco -and Genesis
I’m seriously very busy this morning to say much about this right now, but feel free to comment, share, laugh, etc.
Additional h/t: to tweeps Frank Koughan & Julio Varela for sending this:
‘Whites, Still Calling the Shots; then it’s all yours, Mexicans!’
I totally missed this skit when it first aired on Saturday Night Live, but it’s funny as hell and deserves a spot on this venerable blog.
Watch, enjoy and –please– don’t take yourselves so seriously.
Beware the Salmon Cannon; it Could Inspire a MexiCannon
Behold the Salmon Cannon, a contraption that shoots salmon upstream, as this has become increasingly difficult because we humans just cannot leave fish and nature alone.
In a nutshell, the Salmon Cannon uses pressure to suck up a fish, send it through a tube at up to 22 mph and then shoot it out the other side, reaching heights of up to 30 feet. The contraption was used recently to move hatchery fish up a tributary of the Columbia River in Washington.
All this is great, of course, but knowing how “creative and entrepreneurial” the U.S. border patrol can get, I just hope it will not inspire any whacky ideas to start sending my people back to the other side of the Río Bravo.
A MexiCannon, anyone?
Hat tip: Kent German, Taco & Fisheries correspondent.
It’s Retro Thursday: Meet Salma Hayek in Her Very Beginnings
Salma Hayek de Pinault was not always rich, fabulous and sophisticated. She used to make TV commercials in her native Mexico, like this one (my personal favorite) for the sadly extinct Burger Boy chain. Enjoy!
Translation: “I am Little Red Riding Hood, and I’m off to see my granny. I will buy her a hamburger; I will bring her to Burger Boy.”
(Who the heck is the man in the cape, anyway?)
Texas State University to Offer a Mariachi Postdoc… ¡Ajúa!
Tired of having your parents scolding you for not going to college? Law and Medicine are not your thing?
Worry no more! Now you can earn a ‘mariachi postdoc,’ thanks to an upcoming summer program at the State University of Texas in San Marcos.
According to this AP story, starting this summer the Latin Music department at STU will offer a summer postdoc in mariachi, which requires a total of 15 credits and courses in vihuela and guitarrón, among other relevant instruments.
The school already offers a Mariachi Teaching Certificate and a few other specialized music courses, including salsa and ranchero.
Who said college in America was boring?
‘People en Español’ Picks 25 Most Powerful Latinas. Shockingly, I’m NOT One of Them
After years of not including this blogger in its list of the world’s most beautiful Latinos, People en Español has now unveiled its 25 U.S. most powerful Latinas list, which –unshockingly– includes a bunch of cute Latinas, clad in red, none of which are me.
Sniff, sniff.
Oh, well, maybe next year.
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