Posted on 12/16/2007 2:40:59 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
There is a line of salsa products with the name "Green Mountain Gringo." "Gringo" is a mildly pejorative term that our friends from south of the (unenforced) border use to describe North Americans.
While I, personally, am not offended in the least by the name, I wonder what would happen if someone put out a line of Tacos called "Washington State Wetback."
The double standard is alive and well and living in the United States of America.
I’m always on the lookout for new salsa. Maybe I’ll give it a try. Green Mountain Greengo, right?
In post #4
We got them!
Not:
What got them.
If you look at the pictures on their website, it a pretty acurate description to me.
Salsa from North Carolina...
Try some Hatch green chile salsa from Hatch, New Mexico.
http://www.dagiftbasket.com/store/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=977
I didn’t care for it, too sweet IIRC. But I did not notice the obvious pejorative, you are absolutely correct about the double standard. I may point that out to the manager next time I’m there.
Personally, I think almost any homemade version is way better than anything you can get in a jar. Very easy to make, too. But I’ll look for it, thanks!
Damn! I didn’t know that. Did they get Speedy Gonzales too?
We also have a sense of humor about ourselves.
Well, the first bottle was put up in Vermont. They are Gringos.
Gets to that “Sticks and stones” thing. Cracker, Redneck, Gringo, Hick and a few more don’t make me mad - just if you call me a SOB - smile when you say it.
A “bad: word is only Bad if it takes hold of you and makes you feel bad.
They got rid of Beaner’s Gourmet Coffee too!
http://tinyurl.com/3aq9xt
Those bastards!
This here Gringo salsa is made by gringos from Vermont and North Carolina. Probably about right for gringo tastes from non-border states.
But many border state residents (California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) are used to something closer to authentic.
I jokingly call it “autentico.” So when I’m searching for autentico I’m trying to avoid gringo style.
Seriously, there are subsets of “Mexican” food right here in the US. Tex-mex comes to mind—a specific style.
Another which I like is Chipotle restaurant, purely an American creation.
You guys are all way ahead of me; I just found out Taco Bell isn’t a Mexican phone company.
Talk about political correctness gone wrong.
Everything made here in VT i smore expensive.
Spic and Span-———LOL!
Yes, unfortunately Speedy has been gone since 1999, but as a matter of fact there was a big outcry even among hispanics to keep Speedy when the PC crowd got rid of him.
“Speedy boosters shouldn’t expect to see their furry hero anytime soon, at least in the United States. But there is a place where Speedy can still be found zipping across TV screens — and, presumably, where the crude stereotypes he embodies don’t touch a cultural nerve.
That place: The Cartoon Network Latin America, where, ironically enough, Speedy Gonzales is “hugely popular”.
There’s some irony that Green Mountain Gringo Salsa is made in the most illegal-friendly state in the South...Carolina del Norte.
I may have to rustle some up, I’m always on the lookout for good salsa!
}:-)4
Green Mt. salsa is the best tasting brand available in the grocery stores in my area. I’m more offended by their price than I am the use of “Gringo” which I never paid attention to until this thread. No biggie, I’ll buy it again when it goes on sale or they have a two-fer.
Groan! But I laughed!
“Redneck,”
It’s such an offensive term that people pay Jeff Foxworthy millions of dollars a year to hear him say it on stage, TV and in his books.
Those bastards! Was my childhood just one big racist venture! ;-)
Remember the Cheech and Chong song?
“Beaners....
Beaners....
Beaners...
Beaners.. Are Gonna Kick you in the Face”
>>While I, personally, am not offended in the least by the name, I wonder what would happen if someone put out a line of Tacos called “Washington State Wetback.”<<
I learned that lesson in 5th grade. A young black lady called me a white cracker. I asked he it made her a Ritz cracker - care to guess who got in trouble?
Man, I used to have a ton of these things!
North America includes Mexico.
info on Stepn Fetchit
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275297/bio
I remember Speedy calling Salvestor, “Hay Pussy Katoo”.
I think the manufacturer's name is Green Mountain Gringo and the product is "salsa".
They are not saying this is salsa for gringos. They are saying this is salsa by gringos from the green mountain.
Tex-Mex.....that ain’t Mexican food. Sorry Texas....my humble (but accurate)opinion.
No, they could not catch him. They did get his cousin though, Slow Poke Rodriguez.
“Tex-Mex.....that ain’t Mexican food. Sorry Texas....my humble (but accurate)opinion.”
I am a native of southern California. I prefer our local styles, to the Tex-Mex that I tried.
A 100% authentic Mexican person from Mexico would likely classify MUCH or MOST of what we have in the states as “not Mexican food.”
But a lot of it is good. El Pollo Loco and Chipotle have great flavor in Americanized “Mexican” fast food. El Pollo Loco started in Mexico, in fact.
Thanks for the link
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