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(1,480 posts)But this is hilarious.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)hats must be soaking up their brains if they had brains to start.
trev
(1,480 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)They claimed it was a "record" and that it was >20,000 (at least) and that is all they will ever believe from now until they die.
It is stunning to see so many people divorce themselves from objective truth in favor of a fever-dream fantasy, especially for a huckster like Trump...but there it is, nothing - literally NOTHING - will shake them from the belief that Trump is incredible and fighting for them and anything negative about him at all is 'fake news'.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)they simply say its gods will even if they must suffer too.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)Saviolo
(3,283 posts)I love his shows on food exploration and eating outside of your comfort zone, and he has no qualms about standing up against right wing bloviators on Twitter. He is definitely someone I would like to have a meal and a drink with.
Aristus
(66,440 posts)They're both supremely good guys, and excellent ambassadors for our country when they go overseas. I love the fact that they called out hatred and bigotry when they saw it.
RIP, Anthony...
And Bourdain was definitely on my dinner party bucket list. (along with Toronto restaurateur Jen Agg who also knew Bourdain and knows Zimmern, and eating at her restaurants is always a pure delight)
Aristus
(66,440 posts)Author:Anthony Bourdain Date : 10 January 2018
Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican peoplewe sure employ a lot of them. Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children. As any chef will tell you, our entire service economythe restaurant business as we know itin most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are stealing American jobs. But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porters positionor even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply wont do.
We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but we, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of themand go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.
So, why dont we love Mexico?
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We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires. Whether its dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.
In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugswhile at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us. The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether its kids nodding off and overdosing in small town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroitits there to see. What we dont see, however, havent really noticed, and dont seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few yearsmostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families whove been touched directly by the so-called War On Drugs.
Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace. Look at it. Its beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for gorgeousness. Its archeological sitesthe remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply bro food at halftime. It is in fact, oldolder even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention. The old school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generationmany of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europehave returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.
Its a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was thereand on the casewhen the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them. To small towns populated mostly by womenwhere in the evening, families gather at the towns phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North. I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.
In years of making television in Mexico, its one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the days work is over. Well gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is.
The received wisdom is that Mexico will never change. That is hopelessly corrupt, from top to bottom. That it is useless to resistto care, to hope for a happier future. But there are heroes out there who refuse to go along.
Saviolo
(3,283 posts)And a deep abiding love of food from everywhere. I live in Canada, and it's tough getting real Mexican food here. Mostly the closest we get is pretty average TexMex, but there are a few spots that are just amazing. Real delicious and rich mole sauce, tart and amazing Mexican-style ceviche, there are some amazing spots. My hubby grew up in Houston, TX, and also worked in restaurants there, and learned a lot from the many Mexican workers he shared the kitchen with.
Of course, the hospitality industry in Canada is a little different from the USA. Ours does not run quite so much on Mexican workers, but there would be no restaurants of note if suddenly all of the Sri Lankans departed from Canada.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Even when he first started out (before fame) he always praised the real workers in the kitchens in NY and everywhere.
He also hated tRump. He once told Zamir Gotta while dining in Russia that Putin is like tRump, "a mean businessman only short....being short was an important part of his make-up/attitude".
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,157 posts)Too bad he's no longer with us.
bdamomma
(63,917 posts)is a miss, I wish he was still with us also George Carlin.
rurallib
(62,441 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)and the men to 21, so what do they know about numbers?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)..........
Let's continue to show them some real reality in our House hearings, in the courts, and in 2020!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)The fire Marshall should be fired for excessive occupation creating a hazard.
So, got any updated numbers?
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)and always has been. I am glad that 1/3 of his social media is about how horrible tRump is and the rest are about food of course. He is from Minnesota and a lot of women follow him so I am especially glad he is on our side, spreading the word.