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yup so
I read enough of Rigoberta Menchu that I was like, yo I gotta chill. (It was enough context at least that it got me through the incredibly dry yet terrible History subsection of the Guatemala wikipedia page. In case you were wondering, it’s the CIA’s fault, almost everything that happens to Rigoberta and her family is the CIA’s fault directly or indirectly, so go forth and get fucking furious about that because that’s some shit.)
So I uh. Was overtaken by a need to eat corn tortillas. So we went at 3:30 pm and had margaritas and huitlacoche tacos at a trendy local eatery. The waitress was a girl I used to skate with and I told her, sort of Eeyore-like, that I was a terrible human because that was my response to reading about the death by starvation of a bunch of indigenous Central Americans. I maybe did make a positive dent in the world by explaining to her that all those vanished great civilizations we learn about in school are in fact not actually vanished, which duly surprised and impressed her.
I mean. I’m still a jerk though. But I’m glad I got my masa craving taken care of because i forgot, Cinco de Mayo is coming up real soon and that is some shit I do not need to get hung up in, ugh.
I was thinking about traditional Mexican foods though and it struck me that with all their exotic cocktails there should be something crazy made with chocolate, since like, the Aztecs basically invented the stuff right (I don’t actually know that), so I Googled around and found out about atole, which was mentioned in Rigoberta’s memoirs, and champurrado, which is the chocolate version of it. So, just in time for it not to be winter, I’m suddenly obsessed with thick hot drinks. (THAT’S THE SECRET THERE’S MASA IN IT IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.)
Fortunately there’s a Mexican grocery store about a mile from my house.
yup so
I read enough of Rigoberta Menchu that I was like, yo I gotta chill. (It was enough context at least that it got me through the incredibly dry yet terrible History subsection of the Guatemala wikipedia page. In case you were wondering, it’s the CIA’s fault, almost everything that happens to Rigoberta and her family is the CIA’s fault directly or indirectly, so go forth and get fucking furious about that because that’s some shit.)
So I uh. Was overtaken by a need to eat corn tortillas. So we went at 3:30 pm and had margaritas and huitlacoche tacos at a trendy local eatery. The waitress was a girl I used to skate with and I told her, sort of Eeyore-like, that I was a terrible human because that was my response to reading about the death by starvation of a bunch of indigenous Central Americans. I maybe did make a positive dent in the world by explaining to her that all those vanished great civilizations we learn about in school are in fact not actually vanished, which duly surprised and impressed her.
I mean. I’m still a jerk though. But I’m glad I got my masa craving taken care of because i forgot, Cinco de Mayo is coming up real soon and that is some shit I do not need to get hung up in, ugh.
I was thinking about traditional Mexican foods though and it struck me that with all their exotic cocktails there should be something crazy made with chocolate, since like, the Aztecs basically invented the stuff right (I don’t actually know that), so I Googled around and found out about atole, which was mentioned in Rigoberta’s memoirs, and champurrado, which is the chocolate version of it. So, just in time for it not to be winter, I’m suddenly obsessed with thick hot drinks. (THAT’S THE SECRET THERE’S MASA IN IT IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.)
Fortunately there’s a Mexican grocery store about a mile from my house.
