Ah Si- I am a Cuban trapped in an Italian/German body...I thought I esplain ju before about this?
When I go hong to my country in Miami, I am a wahedo todo!

Nah, tu no eres una guajira!

You see, I have the opposite "problem." Everytime I walk past a deli, I have this urge to go in and order lox and bagels. My relatives were "invited" to leave Spain right about the time that King Ferdinando and Queen Isabella were having their Jew "issues." So, that may explain my love for lox and bagels and my fervent (some here may call it rabid) support for the state of Israel.

Oy vey!

The Inquisition- nasty little snafu (Mel Books movie- the nuns doing Ester Williams in the pool singing about the Inquisition)so your ancestors(sp) are Sephardic?

Me gusta arroz con chorizo y gandules,con salsa picante.

!!!VIVA La cucina Criolla

Gandules are Puerto Rican Sir!!! :eek:

How dare you??? :D

Mel Brooks is very funny. Who can forget "Springtime for Hitler?"

Noone will admit to anything....I may have to do my own DNA research. But then I may get drafted by the Israeli Army...I may be too old to march up and down the desert.

True,but on account of a brief amour privee in my twenties I have absorbed a bit of Puerto Rican culture by injection.............as it were.

I have a funny story (well, it depends on your POV really) about the confusion between Cubans and Puerto Ricans. Maybe I'll post it later.

Carlito cayete- I am on a diet and now my mouth is watering....Yuca fried in olive oil with garlic, arroz con leche ugh oh this is turning into a food thread..

I have one to match about my PR friend Ricky who went into a Cuban bakery in Miami and asked an old Cuban lady for a "Boyo de pan." Screaming and cursing she went on and threw him out of the bakery because in Cuban a "boyo de pan" means a "loaf of pussy" whereas in Puerto Rican a "boyo de pan" means loaf of bread.

Heheheh, this oughta be fun, por que, tu sabes que Google no vale cuando viene al frases idiomaticas.

In Eastern Cuba bollo also = bread.

In Mexico panocha = pussy, but it also means a sweet treat (gee I wonder why).

I am glad he di dnot ask for "bollitos" = litte pussy. He would have bene arrested as a pedophile.

Speaking of panocha...

I always have fun when driving north toward Sacramento, my 1/2 point from the Cali house is in Panoche, California. I *think* they pronounce it panosh, but I'm not sure. I also make sure to call it panocha loudly for the local workers who may be present at the filling station....

Oye sssppptt Mojito- We want to hear "The Story" please.