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Latinos Newly Open to Cooking From a Can
Washington Post ^ | June 02, 2009

Posted on 06/02/2009 9:08:02 PM PDT by Steelfish

Latinos Newly Open to Cooking From a Can

By David Montgomery

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 3, 2009

What started in Falls Church as charity turned into mystery and ended in a savory lesson for everyone.

Social workers connected with a free-food program at Bailey's Elementary School couldn't understand why some donations gathered dust on the pantry shelf. They couldn't give them away -- beans, corn, soup, beets, greens, hearts of palm, coconut milk.

Patricia Moreno, a health promotion consultant, shook her head. What was going on? Then it hit her. Of course! The unwanted food came in cans.

Moreno, who emigrated from Colombia decades ago, knows her fellow Latinos. "We are not used to cooking with canned food," she says. "We do not know how to cook with it. . . . There was a pantry full of food not being taken because people don't know how to use it!"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico
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To: longun45
That’s OK cause many of them don’t know how to use toilets here either.

When I was stationed in Okinawa, It wasn't that uncommon to see a car pull over the side of the road, and the occupant get out take few steps, pull their drawers down and take a dump, in full view of passersby. I once saw a woman do this. I thought to myself, well, this is something new...

I don't mean to be insensitive to *any* immigrant coming into this country, but damn, if you need classes on how to cook a can of corn, then we're doomed.....

21 posted on 06/02/2009 10:31:29 PM PDT by csense
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To: csense

This is a joke right?? Man, it comedy starts turning into reality, it’s time to go, “what in the hell is happening to our people?”


22 posted on 06/02/2009 10:55:33 PM PDT by gman992
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To: Pelham

“Why are immigrants receiving ‘free food’ in the first place?”

If they’re too stupid to figure out what a can opener is for, then how do you expect them to get a job?


23 posted on 06/02/2009 11:01:29 PM PDT by Brucifer (Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
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To: Steelfish

Bump for later reading.


24 posted on 06/02/2009 11:48:19 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Steelfish
How odd...
I remember, in 1947, visiting a Central American town so small and isolated that most residents there had never seen a motor vehicle, and the airline serving them was a Ford trimotor with bench seats.

Yet they all were familiar with cans, and had can openers.

25 posted on 06/02/2009 11:56:05 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: csense
I don't mean to be insensitive to *any* immigrant coming into this country, but damn, if you need classes on how to cook a can of corn, then we're doomed.....

No. They are.

26 posted on 06/02/2009 11:57:16 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Steelfish
It is ridiculous MSM nonsense to suggest that Latinos aren't familiar with canned foods -- except perhaps for somebody from the depths of the jungle who has never been anywhere else. I've been in some of the most remote parts of South America you can imagine and thirty years ago the little village store had canned goods for sale.

What really comes out in the article is that Central Americans don't like US style baked beans.

"No one appears convinced. Baked beans are a mission impossible for another class. Latinos don't do baked beans, maybe not even on Easter. That unopened can will go back on the shelf."

Too bad, they go pretty well with roast pork.

27 posted on 06/03/2009 3:39:14 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: csense

You are right, been there, seen that. ;0)


28 posted on 06/03/2009 4:08:03 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: seemoAR

I can still remember it. Me and my friends were driving around the Island one weekend, and we were on a road that overlooked a small cliff, with the ocean on the other side, and we came up to this outcropping covered in long grass and a beautiful palm swaying in the wind, silhouetted against the surf and the ocean in the background....and then this older lady walks into the picture, drops her draws and squats. Not a pretty picture....


29 posted on 06/03/2009 4:24:31 AM PDT by csense
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To: csense
One of my buddies had a picture of his girl friend squatting by the side of a road. She had taken his picture while he was relieving himself. He got mad so she did the same thing and he took her photo. ;0)
30 posted on 06/03/2009 5:09:04 AM PDT by seemoAR
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To: Steelfish

Be sure to open it first, or else call the bomb squad.


31 posted on 06/03/2009 5:36:19 AM PDT by RoadTest (For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus - I Tim 2:5)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"...How very wise of them..."

Correct. They can utilize a damn can opener by harnessing the richness of their experience to open the can better than any white man would.

After that I would hope they use the richness of their experience to buy a one way bus ticket back to their failed latin hellhole of origin.

32 posted on 06/03/2009 6:21:28 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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To: Steak
"...These folks don’t know toilet paper can be flushed, so they wipe there butts and toss the used paper on the floor, not in the trash, but ON THE FLOOR...."

They are merely bringing their rich cultural heritage to our country, and we are richer for it. Frankly, you should be thanking them for lifting you up from the "Western Indoor Plumbing Paradigm" that holds us ignorant Americans back.

33 posted on 06/03/2009 6:26:45 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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To: csense
"...I don't mean to be insensitive to *any* immigrant coming into this country, but damn, if you need classes on how to cook a can of corn, then we're doomed....."

Or classes on how to use a toilet also, apparently.

And yes, we're doomed.

34 posted on 06/03/2009 6:28:43 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns (B.L.O.A.T. !)
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To: Steelfish

Someone better tell Goya Foods/sarc

35 posted on 06/03/2009 7:48:14 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: Brucifer

“If they’re too stupid to figure out what a can opener is for, then how do you expect them to get a job?”

You expect them to get a job?

Do you also expect the Somali immigrants who don’t know what a toilet or light switch is to work?

There seems to be no bounds to your cultural insensitivity.


36 posted on 06/03/2009 8:53:19 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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