Would you eat tacos made from crickets (grillos)? How about grasshoppers (chapulines)? Why not? Don’t be squeamish. Crickets are kosher, you know!
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Mas…Video Recipe: Delicious crispy cricket tacos (tacos de grillos)
COMIC SAENZ
The Mexican Standoff made a video about the border wall, ‘El Muro’ (video)
DREAMers from SoCal’s alt Mex music scene teamed up as The Mexican Standoff to record El Muro because they have feels about Trump’s wall. They never say his name, however.
On YouTube they explain:
Mas…The Mexican Standoff made a video about the border wall, ‘El Muro’ (video)
WATCH: Mexicans + African-Americans + Gabachos: Mississipi ❤️ ‘hot tamales’
First, Mexicans from just over the border brought tamales to the fertile Mississippi Delta. African-Americans soon realized the Mexicans had a good thing going in these little, corn-husk-wrapped magical meat pies.
And, sure enough, area whites realized the masa miracles weren’t just for people of color anymore. And that’s why Mississippi loves tamales.
Yes, we know proper Spanish means it is one tamal, two tamales. But we’re not proper Spanish speakers or proper anything, actually.
Chillest music vid ever: Mexican national anthem on ICE 45 RPM record
During the 1990s, when Luis Echeverría Álvarez was president of Mexico, technicians recorded a presentation of Mexicanos, al grito de guerra, the Mexican national anthem. In 2014, artist Iván Abreu “pressed” the anthem onto a 7-inch 45-RPM record made of ice. Listen before it melts! Or maybe listen WHILE it melts, starting about two minutes in.
WATCH: Migration is Beautiful – The Monarch Butterfly Story
Migration is Beautiful: The Monarch Butterfly Story, from Marina Valle, supports
the California Endowment Defend DACA and Immigration Awareness Campaigns.
This is your official guide to chile pepper hotness (infographic)
[image via PICTOLINE. All rights reserved.]
Ex-Mex Prez Vicente Fox disses Trump on Bill Maher (NSFW video)
Former Mexican presidente Vicente Fox, no angel himself, tells Bill Maher that he speaks for 120 million Mexicans who Trump insulted. And he doesn’t mince words. [NSFW video.]
#WeCallBS! POCHO readers #STANDwithEMMA (photos)
We asked POCHO readers — on Twitter and IG and Facebook — to send in selfies with the Lalo Alcaraz EMMA GONZALEZ poster (she approves, by the way — see below) and here is what we got.
This is how they make ‘Mexican brown rice’ in Pakistan (video)
Here’s a video recipe for “Mexican Brown Rice” from Pakistani recipes on Vimeo. The long thin grains look like basmati brown rice, BTW, which is delicious. There are some weird ingredients in the recipe, however, like lemon juice. What do you think?
Chris Rock: Forget gun control, we need bullet control! (NSFW video)
Comic and actor Chris Rock has a modest proposal: What if bullets cost $5000 each? [NSFW F-bombs.]
When is a taco not a taco? What does the Icelandic chef say? (video)
This Seafood Taco in a Nordic Style LOOKS LIKE A TACO but except for the fish, there is not one ingredient you’d see in a taco in your neighborhood. The “tortilla” is made from rye flour, the “skyr sauce” is some kind of Icelandic yogurt, and the fennel and watercress are not your abuelita’s pico de gallo. All in all, it might be delish. But is it a taco? Discuss. [EDITOR’s NOTE: Canadians have craftily rebranded “rapeseed oil.” We North Americans call it “Canola” eh.]
Behind the scenes with @RealDonaldTrump: ‘House of Glass’ (video)
Now it all makes sense!
Video creator Ft. Langley rides along with POTUS until the very end.
HOUSE OF GLASS features music by Holy Fuck.
WATCH: Fish tacos two ways at the Empire State Building in NYC
On the ground floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, Tacombi Tacos Chef Oscar Hernandez serves fish tacos two ways. Looks legit!
Everyone sing along now and ask for ‘Uno Mas Cerveza’ (audio)
When he taught ESL, POCHO amigo Eric Holland learned that a song is a great way to teach students a new language. He wrote this song to teach English-speaking [adult] gabachos a few useful words en Español.
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Mas…Everyone sing along now and ask for ‘Uno Mas Cerveza’ (audio)
It CAN happen here: 20,000 Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden (video)
There’s a former American Nazi Party official running on the GOP ticket for United States Congress in Illinois. Trump defended the Nazis who marched and murdered in Charlottesville. His administration demonizes and criminalizes the lives of people of color, non-Christians, LGBT citizens, and immigrants.
And in 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in Madison Square Garden to support the Nazis. It can’t happen here? IT ALREADY HAS.
Metal AF music video: The Chavez Ravine present ‘Citywide’
When this video arrived it was accompanied by this message, and we couldn’t say it better:
Mas…Metal AF music video: The Chavez Ravine present ‘Citywide’
Buy this house near Houston and get $250 in tacos, too! (video)
Nicole Lopez is a real estate agent who knows what people want — TACOS!
Paraphrasing the ABC13 Eyewitness News report,
Mas…Buy this house near Houston and get $250 in tacos, too! (video)
Los Tradicionales Tacos de la Pepsi en Obregón, Sonora, Mexico (video)
Speaking of Pepsi halftime shows, next time you are in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico, spend your halftime at Los Tacos de la Pepsi. Or start with this video — it has us convinced! — and then visit their Facebook page here for more info. Looks like they have a Valentines Day special.
And now for a special Superb Owl Pepsi-inspired slogan or two:
Mas…Los Tradicionales Tacos de la Pepsi en Obregón, Sonora, Mexico (video)
$8 tacos? Sure–with micro-cilantro, uni, and legit masa (audio)
POCHO amigo Javier Cabral, aka freelance food writer TheGlutster, talked to Southern California Public Radio’s Larry Mantle about why $8 tacos may be worth it. Cabral wrote about this for our compas at L.A. Taco. Frankly, you had me at the uni.
New Mex restaurant used to be Chinese? No problema! (photo)
So your new Mexican restaurant is taking over a space formerly occupied by a Chinese restaurant and there’s a big pandas mural painted on the wall? No problem! (Snagged from REDDIT.)
Dotard Trump, ‘Our Cartoon President’ (video from Stephen Colbert)
Can the President revive his low approval ratings by delivering the greatest State of the Union speech in history? And what about his relationship with First Lady Melania?
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Mas…Dotard Trump, ‘Our Cartoon President’ (video from Stephen Colbert)
Watch and learn: The Mexican way to kill a fly (video)
Do you have a problem with flies? Don’t worry, because now you can kill them easily — the Mexican way. [No flies were forced to drink tequila during the making of this video.]
Everything tastes better with opera: EL TACO, the video
When you make tacos, play opera music too. [Video by the mysterious Mangle Media.]
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PAPAS: ‘This is where my people are from’ (video)
Papas is a short video by DFW, Texas creator German Torres. He explains it much better than we can:
Are SF’s best burritos served at La Taqueria in the Mission? (video)
This video claims the best tacos and burritos in San Francisco are served at La Taqueria in the Mission. Four hundred pounds of carne asada every day can’t be wrong, amirite?
If Latina moms were docs, checkups would be like this (video)
What if real doctors took their cues from the remedios used by Latina moms? It might look something like this….
The Mitla Cafe in San Bernardino is where Taco Bell was born (video)
When in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles in the Inland Empire, be sure to stop by the Mitla Cafe, the restaurant where Taco Bell was born. [Video by Katrina Parks]
Happy MLK Day from la MIGRA: GTF out of our country, Mexican (video)
The long fight to keep the Garcia family together ended early Monday at Detroit Metro Airport. Jorge kissed his wife and children goodbye before boarding a plane to Mexico.
Mas…Happy MLK Day from la MIGRA: GTF out of our country, Mexican (video)
The time MLK sent a telegram to Cesar Chavez (photo)
“I am deeply moved by your courage,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, wrote to UFW founder Cesar Chavez in 1966.
“As brothers in the fight for equality,” he wrote, “I extend the hand of fellowship and good will and wish continuing success to you and your members. The fight for equality must be fought on many fronts –- in the urban slums, in the sweat shops of the factories and fields. Our separate struggles are really one — a struggle for freedom, for dignity and for humanity.”
See more at Stanford’s King Encyclopedia.
In 1991, Arizona rejected MLK Day (Public Enemy video)
In 1991, Public Enemy‘s epic By the Time I Get to Arizona spotlighted the Hate State of Arizona’s failure to implement the Martin Luther King Day national holiday.
MLK: “Do you aspire to greatness? You have to serve!” (video)
The words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are moving, literally, in this “kinetic typography” homage.
A day in the life of a taquero in Chiapas, Mexico (video)
To be Mexican is to work work work trabajar trabajar trabajar the Chiapas taquero tells the film maker as he follows him from early morning prep to his route through the varrio with tacos al canasta. It’s Friday, and that means ceviche. Bonus footage: A welder/metal worker.