{"id":105,"date":"2006-05-28T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funchilde.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-05-28T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T22:09:01","slug":"public-service-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42088597@N00\/86198399\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/37\/86198399_78e733ee1f.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[1] I figured out why I have gotten sick of Mexican food so quickly as of late. Its the corn tortillas. I lucked into another cooking class in Oaxaca (Thanks Travis, commenter extraordinaire!) and my teacher told me that in the US and on Baja they mostly use flour tortillas which to me don&#8217;t have much of a taste at all so you can actually enjoy the ingredients. Most of Mexico and certainly in the south they LURVE corn tortillas. To me the corn tortillas have a very distinct, maize-y\/grainy taste and makes everything taste the same whether you are eating pollo (chicken) or carne (meat). A fellow traveler recently told me that I could ask for flour tortillas as some places will have both especially around Oaxaca where some of the more traditional dishes go better with the flour. Who knew??<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[2] Spanish is a fascinating and dangerous language. It is so close to english at times that you get sucked into thinking that you can subsitute or intuit words that should be the same in both languages. Unfortunately that isn&#8217;t that case.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A: I should warn you that if you are standing in your pajamas with your towel across your shoulders asking the hostel office lady for &#8220;Sopa, por favor?&#8221; &#8220;Hay Sopa Senora?&#8221; that when she looks at you quizzically and points you to the restaurant across the street, you might want to go check your spanish dictionary and come back and ask for &#8220;Jabon Por Favor?&#8221; (Soap please?) because &#8220;Sopa&#8221; isn&#8217;t soap at all, its &#8220;soup&#8221; actually its &#8220;Zupa&#8221; but you get my point. I&#8217;m just trying to help <em>yall <\/em>out here.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit B: After making various jokes and inspiring much laughter in both english and spanish with a mix of international travelers, you might not want to exclaim that you are &#8220;muy embarazada!&#8221; to illustrate your embarasement, because you&#8217;ll suffer some self-esteem lowering moments when you figure out that &#8220;embarazado&#8221; is the word for &#8220;pregnant&#8221; not &#8220;embarassed&#8221; and that people were trying to look at your belly to determine if you were joking (and just very fond of pasta and beer)\u00c2\u00a0or if you really were pregnant. ooops, no wonder people kept trying to keep me from drinking that mezcal! and no, despite the drive-by, dry-humping, I am not pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>*graphic courtesy of elemanotees.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[1] I figured out why I have gotten sick of Mexican food so quickly as of late. Its the corn tortillas. I lucked into another cooking class in Oaxaca (Thanks Travis, commenter extraordinaire!) and my teacher told me that in the US and on Baja they mostly use flour tortillas which to me don&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public Service Announcements<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-funchilde-isms","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.funchilde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}