Comments on: Poor Food

By: AlDesmadre

AlDesmadre — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:32:56 +0000

Rosita,
You sound like my old 6th Grade Teacher! Ay, No Jodas!!!

By: Rosita

Rosita — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:08:19 +0000

Just came across your blog. Silly. But I must add (in an out-of-context way) re your entry about tamales de elote. Boy, are you pochos dumb OR WHAT??? Tamales de elote do not contain lard. DUMB DUMB DUMB. SOOOO frustrating that mexican food still has to be explained…and to people of so-called mexican extract. Maybe someone else had already pointed this out, but I didn’t take the time to read all the comments. And stop it with the bad language already. So tacky. Your blog is funny, though.

By: alienation

alienation — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:29:31 +0000

I had a crosscultural pupusa at the old so. central farm. Pupusa of nopal and cheese. It was good and probably healthy.

By: Pachuco 3000

Pachuco 3000 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:50:24 +0000

That is some scary truth there Taco Sam, they are doing that everywhere. My dad told me they were doing that in Mexico years ago. Making people use their seeds. They have to use them or pests will eat crops not grown by their seeds and then the fruit from those seeds cannot be used. You need to go back and buy new seeds from them.

We need to change our perspective and see that poor is the norm all over the world. We seem to think that it is normal to be middle class, when we don’t even really know what that is. Poor is the norm, having more is not, and is becoming more rare.

I think I wrote it here before or somewhere, but I think if you can live without any income, only on your savings and what not, for 6 months then you can claim middle class. Otherwise you are poor and need to start uniting and working with others against those who have more and want to keep using up resources for their minority of the lucky.

By: TacoSam

TacoSam — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:42:04 +0000

Chavo good post. But one glaring omission. You did not discuss what is happening in Big Agribusiness. Genetically engineered seeds–being patented by big corporations like Monsanto. Putting aside what is happening to food by being genetically engineered, if a corporation controls the seeds, they control the food. They can set the price for the seeds. Yes, we are entering into a wonderful era ahead…

From their website:
Monsanto is an agricultural company. We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world produce more while conserving more. We help farmers grow yield sustainably so they can be successful, produce healthier foods, better animal feeds and more fiber, while also reducing agriculture’s impact on our environment.

By: Wendy Carrillo

Wendy Carrillo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:57:09 +0000

I got into a pretty heavy convo w/ a friend who refered to Salvadorian pupusas as “poverty food”. she made the claim that a well to do food critic called it that and so therefore… anywho, at $1.25 a pupusa, im good w/ two, and if eating the combination of dough, beans and cheese equates poverty food, then a large portion of the world is fed by it. so whatever. its expensive to eat well everyday. not in this economy. next time im on a plane and im leafing through that tax free air magazine, i may buy that alien like tomato grower in a pot.

By: human

human — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:58:20 +0000

great post.

i’d add reviewing who really belongs in prison to the list of revenue generators.

By: Pachuco 3000

Pachuco 3000 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:38:02 +0000

A friend recently posted on Craigslist something to the effect:

Looking for land to till and grow food on. You provide land, water and security. I will work the land and split the food in half with you.

By the end of the day he had 5 responses.

People know we need to know how to grow.

By: Puro Rams

Puro Rams — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:31:10 +0000

El Tepeyac. It is what it is. Authentic East Los cooking.

By: apio

apio — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:05:20 +0000

I just had a thought, based on an experience from a few years ago. At the time I lived in a “bad” neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. (A couple drug dealers hung out at the bus stop on the corner, a few street walkers across the street, a few folks gambling for small change on the sidewalk). My friend and apartment-mate had the idea of asking the landlord if we could use what little yard space there was in the 4-plex where we lived for growing veggies. Perhaps because she was an immigrant from Ethiopia, she was actually pleased by the idea. So we put in some tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis, nasturtiums (the flowers and leaves are edible with a nice, slightly sharp, spicy flavor–great in salads). Part of our garden was in the tiny front area, and once the plants started producing, we would hear a lot of comments from people. If either of us were working on the garden people would talk with us about (including the gamblers, street-walkers and drug dealers), asking how to do it. Even in that small pace we had excess, especially of zucchinis. So we started telling people to feel free to take some. The public nature of our little garden naturally moved it into a more collective direction. Unfortunately, after we left there, the spaces went back to being merely decorative shrubs.