[aliquando]

Must not have really been hungry.

[Graybeard58]

Haven’t mastered the can opener yet? There’s an electric one on my kitchen wall, been there for almost 20 years and I don’t know how to use it.

[VeniVidiVici]

Cans!!!! It's the cans!!!!

[AlaskaErik]

This is utterly ludicrous. I've been to a number of Central and South American countries and I've always seen canned goods in stores.

[AZLiberty]

My (well-to-do) Costa Rican roommate at MIT (decades ago) thought of fresh food as pedestrian and canned food as a delicacy. At home he always had fresh food, and the only canned food was imported.

His favorite: canned peas.

[prismsinc]

I think this is a manufactured story. It seems like they took elements from a story written 30-40 years ago and meshed it in with some elements from today.

Clever plagiarism. Like the good Obama State Media they are.

[Pelham]

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

[spodefly]

A couple of things pop out at me:

If the assertion of the author is true, and Latinos don't use cans, then an entire culture on this planet has been denied the sanitary and long-term storage advantages afforded by cans. This can only be because of the racism of the dominant can using culture wanting to deny benefits to a minority.

Secondly, all of the beneficiaries of the free-food program at Bailey's Elementary School are Latinos, since there was no one else to take the cans. This is obviously the fault of the dominant can using culture as well.

[bgill]

Where is everybody from?" Quiroga asks the audience members. They're from you name it: Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Honduras. To round it off, Quiroga's executive chef, German Chavez, who is helping to cook today, is from Nicaragua.

Once again, ICE is nowhere to be found. All that food us taxpayers have donated gone to waste. If they can't figure out how to open a can of corn, they don't deserve to be here. Yes, I know, that's not PC but I've about had enough.

[dragnet2]

Hmmm,

Looks like she already got a hold of all the canned food.

By the way, were is Falls Church? This looks like one of those LA, "get your free stuff" places.

[Sherman Logan]

"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!"

Open can, eat food. Hard to get much simpler than that.

If you want to get really fancy, heat if up first.

This article is idiocy. I've known quite a number of very recent Mexican and Central American immigrants. All used canned and frozen foods with ease.

[Jeff Chandler]

How very wise of them.

[csense]

"We are not used to cooking with canned food," she says. "We do not know how to cook with it..."

WTF...

I had a whole rant that I had written and decided to delete, because this is just too bizarre. If you're so stupid that you don't know what to do with a can of corn, or worse, that your cultural sensitivities prevent you from accepting it...then please, do me a favor and consider immigrating some other place where you'll feel more comfortable...

[SuziQ]

Bump for later reading.

[Publius6961]

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.

[freeandfreezing]

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.

[RoadTest]

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

[libertarian27]

Someone better tell Goya Foods/sarc