moldyoldy

On Mexicans, Anthony Bourdain wrote this:

Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities.

We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them.

Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we need to make that food, clean our houses, mow our lawns, wash our dishes, and look after our children.

As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy—the restaurant business as we know it—in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers. Some, of course, like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs.”

But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position—or even a job as a prep cook. Mexicans do much of the work in this country that Americans, probably, simply won’t do.

We love Mexican drugs. Maybe not you personally, but “we”, as a nation, certainly consume titanic amounts of them—and go to extraordinary lengths and expense to acquire them. We love Mexican music, Mexican beaches, Mexican architecture, interior design, Mexican films.

So, why don’t we love Mexico?

We throw up our hands and shrug at what happens and what is happening just across the border. Maybe we are embarrassed. Mexico, after all, has always been there for us, to service our darkest needs and desires.

Whether it’s dress up like fools and get passed-out drunk and sunburned on spring break in Cancun, throw pesos at strippers in Tijuana, or get toasted on Mexican drugs, we are seldom on our best behavior in Mexico. They have seen many of us at our worst. They know our darkest desires.

In the service of our appetites, we spend billions and billions of dollars each year on Mexican drugs—while at the same time spending billions and billions more trying to prevent those drugs from reaching us.

The effect on our society is everywhere to be seen. Whether it’s kids nodding off and overdosing in small town Vermont, gang violence in L.A., burned out neighborhoods in Detroit—it’s there to see.

What we don’t see, however, haven’t really noticed, and don’t seem to much care about, is the 80,000 dead in Mexico, just in the past few years—mostly innocent victims. Eighty thousand families who’ve been touched directly by the so-called “War On Drugs”.

Mexico. Our brother from another mother. A country, with whom, like it or not, we are inexorably, deeply involved, in a close but often uncomfortable embrace.

Look at it. It’s beautiful. It has some of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches on earth. Mountains, desert, jungle. Beautiful colonial architecture, a tragic, elegant, violent, ludicrous, heroic, lamentable, heartbreaking history. Mexican wine country rivals Tuscany for gorgeousness.

Its archeological sites—the remnants of great empires, unrivaled anywhere. And as much as we think we know and love it, we have barely scratched the surface of what Mexican food really is. It is NOT melted cheese over tortilla chips. It is not simple, or easy. It is not simply “bro food” at halftime.

It is in fact, old—older even than the great cuisines of Europe, and often deeply complex, refined, subtle, and sophisticated. A true mole sauce, for instance, can take DAYS to make, a balance of freshly (always fresh) ingredients painstakingly prepared by hand. It could be, should be, one of the most exciting cuisines on the planet, if we paid attention.

The old school cooks of Oaxaca make some of the more difficult and nuanced sauces in gastronomy. And some of the new generation—many of whom have trained in the kitchens of America and Europe—have returned home to take Mexican food to new and thrilling heights.

It’s a country I feel particularly attached to and grateful for. In nearly 30 years of cooking professionally, just about every time I walked into a new kitchen, it was a Mexican guy who looked after me, had my back, showed me what was what, and was there—and on the case—when the cooks like me, with backgrounds like mine, ran away to go skiing or surfing or simply flaked. I have been fortunate to track where some of those cooks come from, to go back home with them.

To small towns populated mostly by women—where in the evening, families gather at the town’s phone kiosk, waiting for calls from their husbands, sons and brothers who have left to work in our kitchens in the cities of the North.

I have been fortunate enough to see where that affinity for cooking comes from, to experience moms and grandmothers preparing many delicious things, with pride and real love, passing that food made by hand from their hands to mine.

In years of making television in Mexico, it’s one of the places we, as a crew, are happiest when the day’s work is over. We’ll gather around a street stall and order soft tacos with fresh, bright, delicious salsas, drink cold Mexican beer, sip smoky mezcals, and listen with moist eyes to sentimental songs from street musicians. We will look around and remark, for the hundredth time, what an extraordinary place this is.

Liberty Tree

Is there a point here?

youngwilliam Loc: Deep in the heart

Just on top of oldies hesd.

moldyoldy

You should realize how much we depend on the people you want to get rid of. They are not taking your jobs.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Factually untrue. Young teens seeking their first entry level employment, left seeking work due to high greencard immigrants.
Conservatives love people of all nations with caution. Demanding a controlled flow of LEGAL and vetted entry, not this mindless unchecked flow that floods sex trafficking, drugs, murderers.

elledee

Yeah right...... the people responsible for driving down wages all over the country

liberalhunter Loc: Your mom's house

Take a mescan over the uncivilized black population that has plagued America for decades in a snap, I say give the wetbacks a shot......... send the nappy headed ones el south'e to continue their thuggery , they've proven to be untrainable for any useful purpose other than raping and robbing.
On the plus side of trading mescans with their 3rd and 4th grade education for our embarrassing negros would be the boost in the overall IQ in America with an equal decline in Mexico.

I also apologize for stating the obvious.

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

Truer words are rarely spoken.👏

moldyoldy

Maybe you idiots only hear about thugs on fox.

He Fixed NASA’s Giant Space Telescope, Reluctantly
Gregory Robinson was enjoying another job when NASA persuaded him to take on an enormous astronomy project that was billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.

Snowflakes can’t handle facts, so they don’t teach it in school.

Smedley_buzkill

Blacks are 13% of the population. Urban black males aged 15-35 are about 4% of the population and commit well over half the murders in this country. Blacks in general are over half the murder victims. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, some 94% of the time their killers are other blacks. Blacks who live in rural areas or small towns are usually no more likely than anyone else to commit a violent crime. This is basically a fact of life in cities run by Liberal Democrats.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+census+2020&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1013US1014&oq=US+Census+&aqs=chrome.3.0i271j46i199i433i465i512j69i57j0i512l4j69i60.7033j1j7&sourceid=chrom

https://www.google.com/search?q=fbi+uniform+crime+report&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1013US1014&oq=fbi&aqs=chrome.3.69i60j46i199i433i465i512j46i433i512j69i59j69i65l3j69i60.4345j0j7&sour

Blacks consistently score lower on math, reading and English testing than whites and Asians of the same age.


https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/inequality/#:~:text=Throughout%20elementary%20and%20secondary%20school,mathematics%20and%20reading%20than%20white

https://www.educationnext.org/educationalachievementandblackwhiteinequality/

Liberty Tree

No one wants to get rid of Mexicans. They want to get rid of anyone who enters the country illegally.

iFrank Loc: San Antonio

Most of the illegal aliens here in town work for beer and some for drugs, some send some moneys to mexico and some tend to forget about their own, they’re thief’s even to the point where they smile in your face and if you turn around snatch small item to resell for beer. I know I live here and that’s who they are, the other 20% are somewhat responsible and are taking high paying carpenters jobs and bring home doors, windows and other items, have garage sells regularly, don’t know where they get the goods from, burglaries possibly.

I think moldy’s source committed suicide some years ago so he had a mental lapse of reason to take his own life.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/anthony-bourdain-death

Oh Jose Cuervo you are a friend of mine, I like to drink you with a little salt and lime… RIP.

PeterS

Yeah, we love everything Mexican but Mexicans...

Big dog

Excellent reasons to invade and take over. Refugees and dissidents can have California, work the fields and serve the rest of the nation!😉

PeterS

1) We don't issue enough green cards to push out Americans of any age who are seeking employment with the exception of perhaps the medical field which doesn't offer many entry-level jobs for teenagers.

2) I can't speak for any other areas but anecdotally, here in N Texas, there seems to be plenty of teenagers serving us in our McDonalds, Burger Kings, etc. They, teenagers, simply wouldn't be there if they were being pushed out by people holding green cards...

3) A mindless unchecked flood of sex trafficking, murdering, drugs...wtf??? When have sex trafficking, and murdering drug dealers ever checked in before they crossed the border? And I can't attest for sex traffickers and murderers but most drugs are smuggled in through our ports of entry, not the vast open desert as was suggested by a certain ex-president in a failed bid for president.

Snip>>>According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics, 90 percent of heroin seized along the border, 88 percent of cocaine, 87 percent of methamphetamine, and 80 percent of fentanyl in the first 11 months of the 2018 fiscal year was caught trying to be smuggled in at legal crossing points.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/16/fact-check-mike-pence-donald-trump-drugs-crossing-southern-border-wall/2591279002/

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/06/710712195/how-do-illegal-drugs-cross-the-u-s-mexico-border