Ok, so I was going to let the mex food thing die......but then one of my salesmen brought Tamales this AM for breakfast. OMG, yummy. He bought them from some old vieja who sells them on her front porch in a town of about 100people.....now THAT's authentic, Steph-

Betsy- LOL at the packaged tortilla coronary! There are men here who have divorced thier wives for serving them that. The culture here is amazing (probably has many similarities to cali). There are folks here who only speak spanish but have never been to mexico....or out of this state, for that matter.

Deanna- I'm so excited for your trip! Glad you aren't stressing about TTC.

Bina- LOL

Irene- I think Betsy called it perfect with the Pizza analogy. Here, we call it "mex" food, for lack of anything better. But really it is the Native American influence that sets the food here apart from anything in Mexico.....come to think of it, I bet the tamale I had for breakfast is probably one of those unique foods.

Oh, and I don't know if she is "pretending" to be a lesbian in the song. There's some line about how she hopes her boyfriend is ok with her kissing a girl. The singer (who's name escapes me) I just read somewhere that she is "saving herself for Miley Cyrus". Ummm....I'm pretty sure statutory rape still aplies to lesbian sex-LOL

Mel- Hope I didn't freak you out with my pancake batter! I'm bummed no one else saw that in school.....explains alot though.....

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