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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Must not have really been hungry.
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.
The only reason cats keep us around is because we have opposable thumbs and can work the can opener. If they gain that ability or we lose it, we're done for.
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.
My poor roommate once got suckered in, however. He brought home a small can of tuna in sauce. Before he ate it, I told him it was cat food. He couldn’t believe that people would buy canned food for their pets.
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.
Why are immigrants receiving “free food” in the first place?
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.
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.
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.
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.
How very wise of them.
Falls Church, VA.
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...
wow...Looks like one of those "Gimmie more free stuff" places in LA.
That’s OK cause many of them don’t know how to use toilets here either.
This is true. A sick little side note, is that of the use of toilet paper. Apparently, these country folks, from central aAmerica, do not flush toilets back home. I work at a race track, with many mexicans working on the backside. The bathrooms are absolutely disgusting. 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. Signs have been up for years, in spanish , saying its ok to flush the TP, but it never gets through. Still, day after day, stinky, gross used toilet paper on the floors, buzzing with flies. Totally nasty....
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