Mas…Yosemite Sarah, Gilligan Trump, Make Freedonia Great Again! (videos)
In San Diego, your basic carne asada burrito comes with French fries inside. They call it a “California Burrito,” because that’s how they roll.
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Mas…San Diego Represents! ‘We invented the California Burrito’ (video)
(PNS reporting from EAST LOS ANGELES) Falling Wall Street prices and the discovery of a new planet lurking beyond Pluto are two sides of the same coin, area man Alberto “You Can Call Me Al” Alcalde suggested Thursday.
Mas…Area man links Wall Street sell-off, discovery of new planet
Would the nominees at the OSCARs be any different if Academy voters had seen this cowboy version of Straight Outta Compton when it came out in 2009? How about Donald Trump’s B.E.T Awards? [Totally NSFW adult lyrics, F-bombs, N-word, etc.] (Video by CowboyGangstaRap.)
What are they eating? Chips? Rolled taquito-looking snacks? Does she say “Mexican sweet chile?” We don’t know, but how can you go wrong when one crunchy bite magically turns this attractive Thai couple into tango-dancing Mexicans! [Mariachis not included.]
PREVIOUSY ON “MEXICAN” CHIPS IN EXOTIC FOREIGN COUNTRIES:
Mas…Crunchy Thai treat in a bag makes you magically Mexican! (video)
I always said I wouldn’t grow up to be like my mother.
When I saw her, I saw a woman who wouldn’t leave her husband. A woman who didn’t put her children first.
I grew angry that my father’s temper prevented me from having teenage sleepovers. I grew resentful that they wouldn’t let me go to my high school football games. And I grew bitter as I got older, because she chose not to leave him.
The yerba may have been hella buena Monday night in Yerba Buena, Tucumán province, Argentina, but even the dogs were barking when Tomás Luciani spotted a “poderoso” (powerful) OVNI.
Mas…Poderoso OVNI/UFO spotted over Yerba Buena, Tucumán, AR (video)
Pulled over by the NYPD, a New York driver calls the officer “bro,” but the cop is all like, “Don’t call me bro.”
When in Malmo, Sweden, half-way decent-looking tacos and comida Mexicana can be found at La Raza Street Food & Tacos. And if the food sucks, they have mezcal!
There’s also a Mexican grocery store, MexGrocer that looks legit. (FYI, one KRONER = 15¢):
Mas…Looking for tacos and mezcal in Malmo, Sweden? Try La Raza (video)
True story! In a cantina in the deserts of MexiArabia, the customers ate so many Cheetos Flames that their lips turned red. To cover up, they grew mustaches, and the donkeys too.
For those keeping track, a donkey in Arabic is “alhimar” الحمار . [Gracias to POCHO amigo BAF in Q8 for the translation help.]
As a Mexican court considers overturning a ban on GMO corn, farmers continue the uphill struggle to preserve traditional seed varieties.
PREVIOUSLY ON MAIZ DE MEXICO:
Mas…Can maiz, Mexico’s gift to the world, survive modernity? (video)
In a sketch from November, 1997, when this was still a joke, MadTV’s country music diva Darlene McBride (played by Nicole Sullivan) announced a concert tour to Take Back America (to 1955).
San Antonio sensation Vanessa Del Fierro is the alt.mariachi chingona behind Las Coronelas, whose mega-viral David Bowie cover almost blew up POCHO’s servers this week.
Vanessa also stars as an immigrant-smuggling coyote in a new video for her original composition Mexican Train. It’s a love song; too bad she’s in love with the wrong vato. Extra firme oldies points for the doo-wop backup girls, the triplets feel, and the tubular bells:
Mas…Vanessa Del Fierro is a coyote on a ‘Mexican Train’ (music video)
Do you have El Chapo and Kate Castillo piñatas? Claro! Coming right up! Euronews outlet RT explains:
Mas…Do we have El Chapo y Kate del Castillo piñatas? Claro! (video)
TacoFix, a new family Mexican restaurant that opened just yesterday (Wednesday) in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood, promises they’ll soon be delivering tacos by drone. Watch this proof-of-concept video where a drone makes a delivery to a customer — a hungry guy who just happens to live at 420 Someplace Street. God Bless America.
PREVIOUSLY ON FOOD DELIVERY:
Mas…New L.A. restaurant promises taco delivery by drone (video)
The staff at Taqueria Mexico on West Colfax Avenue in Denver asked a homeless man to leave Thursday night.
Not so fast, said patron Vanessa Varona, who was there with her family, and offered to buy him a meal.
FOX31 KDVR in Denver has the story:
DENVER — A Denver woman’s Facebook post is going viral after she said a local restaurant refused to serve a homeless customer.
Mas…Dear hungry homeless guy: You can eat tacos with our family (videos)
Orange County poet and activist Marilynn Montaño’s poem His Machucada Hands is a “testament to the ways that being undocumented has taken a physical toll on her father’s body. The title, she said, came from noticing his hands on the steering wheel every morning as he drove her to middle and high school,” according to the PBS News Hour.
Mas…Marilynn Montaño is embedded in her migrant father’s rough hands
A bomba de mecate is a rope pump for water wells. In San Miguel del Valle, Díaz Ordaz, Oaxaca, Mexico, you can build one if you know how. Maybe! 😉
Here’s how you do it, at least according to YouTube:
Mas…In rural Mexico, where there’s a will, there’s a well (video)
