Someone better tell Goya Foods/sarc
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!"
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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.....
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?”
“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?
Bump for later reading.
Yet they all were familiar with cans, and had can openers.
No. They are.
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.
You are right, been there, seen that. ;0)
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....
Be sure to open it first, or else call the bomb squad.
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.
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.
Or classes on how to use a toilet also, apparently.
And yes, we're doomed.
Someone better tell Goya Foods/sarc
“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.
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