According to POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz 2017 Calendar, it’s Gucamole Wednesday, and that’s why we’re sharing the best guacamole video ever:
Mas…Happy Guacamole Wednesday! Enjoy some ‘Fresh Guacamole’ (video)
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…and that’s how they make tortillas in Mexico City, D.F. (video)
Ritual ordinario mixes the sounds of Mexican streets with visuals of the process of making, baking, and selling tortillas. This video was shot and the ambient audio recorded in Mercado Cartagena in Mexico City, D.F. [Video by Ricardo Martinez Roa.]
Is this the worst taqueria video of 2016? Spoiler: It’s from France
Is this the worst online taqueria video of 2016? Spoiler: No tacos were filmed in the making of this O’tacos video. P.S.: It’s from France.
It looks like O’tacos offers a “Philly” taco (suspiciously burrito-looking) which includes provolone cheese and grilled onions. How do they say “cheesesteak” in France?
Mas…Is this the worst taqueria video of 2016? Spoiler: It’s from France
Bangor? I just met her – at Saborro Mexican Burrito Bar (video)
Yesterday we learned that Bangor, in Maine, is not the original Bangor. Original Bangor is in County Down, Northern Ireland. And guess what? The town with the double entendre name also has the Saborro Mexican Burrito Bar, which looks legit. Have you been?
Cheech and Chong Xmas Classic: ‘Police got my car!’ (NSFW video)
Cheech y Chong can’t go burn one or grab a beer at the bar. Por que? Police got my car! [NSFW adult lyrics.]
Los lyrics:
Mas…Cheech and Chong Xmas Classic: ‘Police got my car!’ (NSFW video)
BBC Video: Lucha libre — not just for hombres anymore
Lucha libre is no longer just for men, as Marcela and her friends explain to the BBC.
Every day is taco day when you freeze your tacos in a bag (video)
Here’s an idea: Make your ground beef tacos ahead of time, put ’em in a bag, suck the air out, freeze the bag o’ tacos and reheat when needed. Tacos In A Bag demonstrates.
Tish Hinojosa: He was from ‘The West Side of Town’ (video, lyrics)
Folk/country singer songwriter Tish Hinojosa sings a song about a pilgrim’s progress in America — a Mexican pilgrim in Texas. Felipe, the father, lived in San Antonio, on The West Side of Town. That’s were Felipe met Maria…
Los lyrics:
Mas…Tish Hinojosa: He was from ‘The West Side of Town’ (video, lyrics)
POCHO’s @SaraChicaD wishes you a Happy Mexican Sansgiven (video)
POCHO’s Subcommandanta del Ñews, Sara Inés Calderón, shares everything you need to know about Sansgiven, the Mexican Thanksgiving. She’s @SaraChicaD on the Twitter.
Ms. Vida Comida makes Arroz a la Mexicana (video)
Ms. Vida Comida — she doesn’t give her name — makes Mexican-style rice with tomatoes and and corn and carrots and peas.
These Kiwis want your money for a ‘Taco Cleanse Club’ (video)
Those wacky kids in Wellington, New Zealand, are raising money for a healthy, green taco scene. Can you help?
From the PledgeMe fundraiser page:
About Wellington Taco Cleanse
Project 2016-11-02 12:52:08 +1300
We have a dream.
We dream of a world in which vegans, vegetarians, omnivores and coeliacs can eat together. We dream of a world in which NO man, woman or child in Wellington goes without the tacos they need to live a full and rewarding life.
Mas…These Kiwis want your money for a ‘Taco Cleanse Club’ (video)
Play by play from East LA: ‘Undocumented Football’ (poetry video)
Today is the big game — Roosevelt vs Garfield — the Boyle Heights East/Los Angeles high school football rivalry that has lasted generations. The Roughriders meet the Bulldogs this evening at Weingart Stadium on Avenida César Chávez in Monterey Park.
In this 2013 poetry video, David A. Romero supplied the play by play.
For weird Mexican surf music, try the Mexican Weirdoh’s Surf Band
They’re weird. They’re Mexican. They play surf music. That’s why they named the band the Mexican Weirdoh’s Surf Band.
La Bruja makes an altar for Dia de Los Muertos (video)
It’s all so atmospheric in La Bruja en Día de Muertos by Mexico City artist Gimena Romero.
R U READY? It’s time for ‘The Donald Victory Dance!’ (video)
Can you Dance Like Donald? All the kool kids are doing it! [Video by BlueDogFilms.]
Hateline, Las Vegas: This is your country on Trump (Fox 5 News video)
In Henderson, Nevada, an angry Anglo Trump supporter was caught on video last week cursing at Latino construction workers, calling them “illegals,” “wetbacks” and worse. Fox 5 Las Vegas reporter Miguel Martinez-Valle went to find out why the pinche potty-mouthed gringo pendejo was so angry.
CALL FOR COMMENTS: Have any of you pochos been subject to similar harassment lately?
Tell us below!
Mykki Blanco reads Zoe Leonard: I want a dyke for president (video)
Artist, photographer and activist Zoe Leonard wrote “I want a dyke for president” in 1992. Rapper Mykki Blanco delivered the word in this new video.
Here’s the text:
Mas…Mykki Blanco reads Zoe Leonard: I want a dyke for president (video)
Back from the dead y live on YouTube, FDR explains the debates (video)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd Presidente of the United Estates and Democratic Party icon, is back from the dead and live on YouTube with a video that explains in one minute what to expect in tonight’s Clinton vs Trump debate. Like both former Presidents Bush, former President Clinton, and former President Carter, former President Roosevelt will not be voting for Donald Trump.
Ramen vegan tacos with wasabi mayo? Reply hazy try again (video)
Just a few easy ingredients and a strong stomach are all you need to make and enjoy these fantastic fusion vegan fandangos! Or not.
Start with a block of dried ramen noodles dipped in vegan egg-like goop, stew them in ramen juice, cut them into circles, fold them like tacos, then fill these little impersonators with fake chicken, bean sprouts, corn, cebollitas, wasabi (falso) mayonnaise. There you have it. Whatever.
Gigantic 30-ton meteorite unearthed in Argentina (video)
It came from Outer Espace and landed in Gancedo, Argentina, 674 miles north of Buenos Aires, 4000 years ago. And now the 30-ton meteorite is seeing the light of day.
Mas…Gigantic 30-ton meteorite unearthed in Argentina (video)
Top Taco Trucks Throwback Thursday #TTTTT (videos)
Because of you know who and you know why, we thought it would be chingon to take a look back at the taco truck videos that have graced POCHO’s pages over the years.
Did we mention we love tacos?
In no particular order:
Always look for the union label: Music vids for Labor Day
Happy Labor Day!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always look for the union label: Music vids for Labor Day
Shocking new video from Trump’s doctor reveals awful truth
Dr. Harold Bornstein — that wack long-haired doctor who wrote a weird-ass letter about Donald Trump’s health — comes clean with the whole truth and nothing but the truth in this shocking new video. [Yes, that’s STTNG’s Brent Spiner, Trekkies!]
Lowriders to the Center of the Earth! (graphic novel video trailer)
Cathy Camper of PDX writes:
OK, I confess, I’m Lebanese American often mistaken for Latina, Native American, Jewish, terrorist…no one in the US knows who anyone is!
I wrote 2 graphic novels with Raúl III (Raúl Gonzalez) called Lowriders in Space (2014) and Lowriders to the Center of the Earth (just came out this summer, July 2016). Raúl illustrated them all in Bic pen, because that’s what kids draw with in school, right? The books are aimed at kids, but adults are loving them too.
Mas…Lowriders to the Center of the Earth! (graphic novel video trailer)
They say this is a recipe for ‘Mexican Chicken Steak’ (video)
Food Fix host Zakir shows how to prepare “Mexican Chicken Steak,” at least that’s what he says. Brought to you by the Malaysian Palm Oil of Pakistan people, which is why there is a lot of environmentally-suspect palm oil in the recipe:
Mas…They say this is a recipe for ‘Mexican Chicken Steak’ (video)
Cristina Martinez: Don’t mess with this Chicana! (NSFW poetry video)
This Latinx does not want your stereotyping BS. Cristina Martinez performing Chicana at the Cherokee Man and the Mockingbird graffiti mural at Decatur Station in Decatur, Georgia. [NSFW F-bomb.]
Hoe vouw je een burrito? Watch this video to learn hoe!
Hoe vouw je een burrito? Good question!
[Relax. You’re not going crazy. How do you fold a burrito? is a silent video. In Dutch. From Belgium. They speak two languages there. The other one is … French.]
Chris Garcia: Growing Up Cuban Life Hacks #1 (video)
POCHO amigo Chris Garcia — a Cuban-American — is going public with the Cuban Life Hacks that turned his family’s hard life in a Commie dictatorship into Heaven on Earth, with arroz con pollo.
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Watch: We found the perfect phone for filming police brutality
Planning to video some police brutality? Do you need extra battery life because the popo are out of control? Police badge number recognition? Instant posting to Facebook? Jerrod Carmichael has the perfect phone for you!
Half-fast country music classic: Jim Reeves ‘Adios Amigo’ (video)
The country music legend Jim Reeves had a lot of big records, but we like this “half-fast” April 16, 1964 live-in-Norway version of his hit Adios Amigo. He died later that year behind the controls of a small plane that crashed in Tennessee during a violent thunderstorm. He was 40 years old.
You can ‘Reach for the Stars’ with a plastic grabber thingy (video)
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write, shoot, cut and complete a short comedy video in 48 hours including this line of dialogue --"Am I missing something here?" -- a character named Lee or Leah Gregory, and a plaster grabber thingy as a prop.
OK.
Sergio Anthony Gonzalez explains via email:
Mas…You can ‘Reach for the Stars’ with a plastic grabber thingy (video)