I just had to share this post with you, I love sarcasm, only when it is side splitting funny-NOT hurtful
I am a product of multi-mixed decent and was raised in a white suburban neighborhood
I remember kids asking me if I was black (and I did have a Nanna, Ethel McLaughlin, who was born in Jamaica her husband Anton DeWindt who was born in Curacao from my Fathers side and Rosiaro Garcicia who was born (and is 98) of Spanish decent and her husband Juan Pabon who was a native Indian from Puerto Rico) Yes I am a mutt of pure and refined collection of cultures
5 years ago I left my job, sold my condo on the beach, and headed to Florida. What a culture shock, I mean let me put it this way:
I have been around many ethnic back rounds, and we (I have a younger sister) were brought up to understand the diverse shades of people, if you will, but there are certain areas of Miami where that if you don't speak the Cuban dialect, you are fucking screwed
For example:
I wanted to order some take out from this place that that was known for their great food As part of my order I wanted Tostones to which I am very familiar because mi Abuela taught me how to make them, using the leftover paper bags from the day`s groceries. She showed me how to pound the green plantains with the heel of my hand until they were just the perfect width She would use the garlic and. .
Oh, please pardon, I went off into a memory tangent.
Ok, so I want to order Tostones from this Cuban restaurant, I am, as I said before, completely familiar as to what they are but, alas, I stumble upon this quandary.
Do I order the:
`sliced green plantains, fried to a wonderful delight` named - Mariquitas
or
`crisp fried golden bananas with a soft bite` named - Tostones
I did not want the sweet unmashed plantains which are the golden ones but as you could tell from the names and the descriptions I was quite confused as to what to order
So what do I do,,, I call Mommy.
She has no idea what Mariquitas were, she had never even heard of them before. She advised me to call my Godmother, her sister, to find the answer.
My Titi Gloria would know, for Pete's sake, she lives in the Bronx, right! Nope she had never heard the word Mariquitas either. But the one thing she did say that happened to part the waters for me was:
Maybe its a Cuban thing.
Hence my comment to a group I joined on FB entitled:
I speak SARCASM as a Second Language
Denise DeWindt wrote
at 10:40pm
I am from from North America and now I live in Miami FL
I am Bilingual, I have to be
I speak the American language and Sarcasm
THANK you
Pardon me, North America-um besides Canada, it does include United States of, right
or is it Central America, because I sure as heck know I'm not from South America!
Tune in later to find out the result of my take out order escapade,,,
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2 comments:
so what happened? did you just end up makin' your own tostones? I know I very very rarely ever see any that are thin and crispy and salty just like you like 'em.
I bought them both! Found out that the tostones were the kind I like and the madirinas were good too
they are Cuban and that's why our PR family did not know, I should have asked Titi Nitza!
Anyways, the Cuban ones, are like the garnishes you see on foods, they slice the bananas lengthwise thin with a slicer
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