Mixing up 10 gallons of tequila, margarita mix and ice cubes is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it!
Mas…Kids, don’t try this at home: Making the Redneck Margarita (video)
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POCHO PSA: How to NOT get raped (NSFW video)
Anna Akana explains how to NOT get raped. [Adult content, F-bomb, NSFW.]
Manu Chao ‘El Viento’: ‘Beast’ train mangles limbs, lives (video)
Manu Chao recorded El Viento (The Wind) five years ago in front of Arizona Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s infamous “tent city” prison, but the tapes were unreleased until now.
In this new music video, the Arizona footage is paired with scenes of would-be Honduran migrants maimed on the infamous “Beast” train (La Bestia) that runs through Mexico en route to El Norte.
NDLON (National Day Laborers Organizing Network) explains:
Mas…Manu Chao ‘El Viento’: ‘Beast’ train mangles limbs, lives (video)
Hey Vato! If loving tacos is wrong, I don’t wanna be right (video)
The Hey Vato! homies have a change of heart about the tacos they get from the Taco Lady. Or is that heartburn?
Mas…Hey Vato! If loving tacos is wrong, I don’t wanna be right (video)
Sportsball Fans: The strange history of ‘The (Mexican) Wave’ (video)
In a universe far away, they call the sportsball spectator stand up/get down trick The Mexican Wave. Here in Pocholandia, it’s just The Wave. Maybe that was you doing The Wave on MLB opening day or on the final night of March Madness; maybe you Waved on the couch at home.
But do you know where The Wave originated, and why it’s now known internationally as The Mexican Wave? Watch y learn:
Mas…Sportsball Fans: The strange history of ‘The (Mexican) Wave’ (video)
Frida La Luchadora: ‘The Legend of the Flying Tomato’ (video)
Young luchadora wannabe Frida (check her eyebrows) has trouble finding success in the ring – until she finds herself and becomes The Flying Tomato.
Pie Fight at High Noon: ‘The Ballad of Poisonberry Pete’ (video)
Somewhere in the Old West, there’s saloon with swinging door, a card game, a bad guy pie, a sheriff pie and a sweet little orphan pie with a bow in her hair. You won’t believe what happens next!
¿Meteorito o OVNI en Bella Vista, Buenos Aires? (video)
What was it? A meteorite or an OVNI/UFO? Area kids captured a cellphone video of something hovering over Buenos Aires.
Inexplicata explains:
Argentina: Alleged UFO over Buenos Aires Excites Social Media
A group of kids recording a noctural foray on a cellphone had a surprise. A phenomenon lit up the skies in several districts of Buenos Aires.
Everybody loves elotes! (幻の真珠とうもろこし video)
Everybody loves corn – including this Japanese perro.
Welcome to Si Racha, Thailand, home of that sauce (video)
POCHO loves hometown favorite salsa picante Huy Fong Sriracha, we cannot lie. We like Tapatio and Cholula and Valentina, sure, but the garlicky sweet red sauce from Irwinwindale, CA is special. That’s why we were intrigued by this video visit to a chile-loving town in Southeast Asia – Si Racha, Thailand.
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Mas…Welcome to Si Racha, Thailand, home of that sauce (video)
Ask A Mexican: What part of ‘illegal’ don’t you understand?
POCHO’s Associate Naranjero Gustavo ¡Ask A Mexican! Arellano answers the pregunta “What part of ‘illegal’ don’t Mexicans understand?” with his own question for pinches Know Nothing gabachos.
Mas…Ask A Mexican: What part of ‘illegal’ don’t you understand?
Talk show caller outs the EPA’s anti-Christian gay Latino agenda (video)
A concerned viewer from Georgia called CSPAN to expose the Environmental Protection Agency’s secret anti-Christian pro-abortion gay Latino agenda, planned in conjunction with the Sierra Club. The international conspiracy seeks to reduce human population. It happened in Rio, as it turns out.
Passover matzo balls with Hebrew homies Luis and Jaquann (video)
On Passover (“Pesach” in Hebrew), los Judios eat “bitter herbs” to remember “the bitterness of slavery in Egypt.” In this video, Hebrew homeboys Jaquann and Luis start out with a sweeter herb and then have to satisfy their munchies with matzo balls. Passover starts at sundown tonight. (NSFW drugs and language.)
Stray dogs hold vigil at coffin of woman who fed them (video)
A funeral for a woman in Mexico took an unexpected turn when a number of stray dogs unexpectedly showed up to pay their respects, according to this robotic announcer and some still photos as well as the Daily Mail.
Spring nourishes bumper Swiss spaghetti crop (BBC video)
Global warming — and an early warm Spring — means a bountiful spaghetti harvest in Switzerland’s pasta-growing regions near the border with Italy. The BBC reports.
Wassup foo? Felipe Esparza says it’s ‘Taco Tuesday’ (NSFW)
Wassup foo? Felipe Esparza say it’s Taco Tuesday! [NSFW adult language.]
Mas…Wassup foo? Felipe Esparza says it’s ‘Taco Tuesday’ (NSFW)
Are avocados from Mexico the ‘Forbidden Fruit’? (video)
Are Avocados from Mexico the Bible’s Forbidden Fruit?
Hey Vato! The homies are ‘Dreaming of Selena’ (video)
East Los vatos Smiley and Chuy still have a soft spot for Selena, who died on March 31, 1995. Or is it Salinas?
‘Avocados from Mexico’ commercial is 50 shades of huh? (video)
Is that an avocado in your pantalones or are you just happy to see me?
Finally! Deep-fried nachos on a stick come to Milwaukee (video)
Milwaukee Brewers fans can hit a home run this season at Miller Park with every order of Inside The Park Nachos.
ESPN reports:
Mas…Finally! Deep-fried nachos on a stick come to Milwaukee (video)
In San Diego, burritos have French fries inside (Zagat video)
Why does San Diego think its burritos are California’s best? It’s because they have French fries inside, at least according to the Zagat restaurant guide people.
Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds): ‘The Dreamer’ (music video)
Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) sing The Dreamer, composed by Eugene Rodriguez and Jackson Browne, in a just-released video by Emiliano Rodriguez. [Click on CC for English/Spanish captions.]
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Mas…Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds): ‘The Dreamer’ (music video)
McDonalds (Australia) helps you feed your ‘Inner Mexican’ (video)
The “legendary” El Maco at McDonalds in OZ will feed your inner Mexican, as long as he or she wants two all-beef patties, sour cream and “taco sauce.” [Mustache, charro outfit and sombrero not included. Not available at McDonalds stores near any actual Mexicans. Your bigote may vary.]
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Mas…McDonalds (Australia) helps you feed your ‘Inner Mexican’ (video)
Video: The Nuts and Bolts of Chican@ Feminist Theory
You say you want to understand Chican@ Feminist Theory? We have just what you’ve been looking for.
Huh? Video creator Rafael Solorzano explains
How do you clean nopales? And how does Tia Lencha cook them?
Ani from Confessions of a Foodie (@afotogirl on the Twitter) demonstrates the best way to clean nopales.
But what then? How do you cook nopales? Our Tia Lencha has the answer:
Mas…How do you clean nopales? And how does Tia Lencha cook them?
Seamless: The food delivery service that eliminates humans (video)
Dear Architects of Our Future: I’m hungry, but don’t want to leave the house, and I certainly don’t want to interact with any human beings. Is there an app and service that can get me food delivery without any people involved? There is? And it’s Seamless?
Los Jornaleros del Norte: Serenade for the Undocumented (video)
They stand outside the immigration detention centers and sing to their loved ones inside: Los Jornaleros del Norte (Day Laborers of the North) offer a Serenata. [Video via NDLON, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network.]
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Mas…Los Jornaleros del Norte: Serenade for the Undocumented (video)
What’s it like to come out as an undocumented immigrant? (video)
What’s it like to come out of the closet as an undocumented immigrant? POCHO amigo Julio Salgado and friends explain.
Video: Best (and longest) death scene ever in the history of cinema?
Now that poor Turkey, the sick man of Europe, is under the control of an egomaniacal historically ignorant Ottoman wannabe, it’s comforting to look back on the glory days of Turkish cinema with 1974’s Karate Girl.
We love Karate Girl’s film making genius since we discovered this excerpt — the “best death scene ever”:
Mas…Video: Best (and longest) death scene ever in the history of cinema?
New Enrique Peña Nieto video reaffirms shared values
El Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto supports traditional Mexican values and he wants you to know it.
Mariachi El Bronx on Conan O’Brien: ‘Wildfires’ (video)
Everyone’s favorite alt.neo.electro.fusion.cumbia.mariachi conjunto, Mariachi El Bronx, burned down the house on Conan O’Brien with Wildfires.