Goin_south and for other Gringos who have a great appetite for Colombian food

Darloup (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:02:

Monpirri says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:06:

LOL

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Lisa Zee says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:18:

Que hambre!... yum, yum.
Monpi no sera que no le entendiste a GS?

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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Monpirri says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:20:

Lisa es posible, porque?

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Lisa Zee says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:23:

Porque?jajajajaja. Al pobre no se le entiende ni en Ingles ni en Espanol!

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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Monpirri says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:26:

So you don't have Colombian restaurants in S California I wonder why?

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Lisa Zee says on Aug 15, 2009, 15:34:

No hay muchos Colombianos. Tenemos de vecinos los Mejicanos, y hay tres restaurantes en una cuadra!

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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Bill Turley (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 15, 2009, 19:32:

goin_south says on Aug 15, 2009, 23:37:

Monpirrito.... I need the good fortune, I guess, of being able to spend more than a handful of days in Colombia.
Monpirrito.... You ever notice, how it's okay for Lisa Zee to make fun of my spanish... but, not for me to tease her about her english (or, lack of) ?
Monpirrito... Si! No hay colombianos en South California.... because, (in general) they can't stand to be around the mexicans.
Monpirrito.... thanks for the recognition (or, lack of) in naming of the thread.

monpirrito... I still listen to those music CD's! thanks! The great music of Colombia makes up for the lack of taste in the Cuisine de Colombia :-))

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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Monpirri says on Aug 16, 2009, 04:58:

Bill Turley, I am glad to hear your comment. Thanks for sharing it.

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Monpirri says on Aug 16, 2009, 05:00:

Goin_south, I hear ya. Do me a favor next time that you go to Colombia please buy me a cookbook, I would like to try some new dishes.

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Lisa Zee says on Aug 16, 2009, 09:56:

" This is the Internet"! You started it dear. Don`t do to others..... I said English or Spanish. I am not the only one, and it is all in good fun, because you are very animated when you write, but is kind of cute, not insulting.(unlike you to me)

Now go and have " Torta de sesos" or "Sancocho de pescao"

Vive la vida y deja vivir!.

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pjerick says on Aug 16, 2009, 11:48:

No colombian restaurants in So. Cal? Huh?

Well, no, they´re not on every street corner like a Taco Bell, where you can walk away with the McDonalds version of something they try to pass of a Mexican fare... but with a little effort using the internet, or even the yellow pages, you can find a Colombian restaurant or two... it´s been a couple of years since my wife and I have been close enough to ¨So. Cal¨ to make it worth while... but we were able to do it.

And as for Colombian´s not liking Mexicans... there´s something about the Mex-o-Centric point of view held by every 1st & 2nd generation Mexican decendant in CA, that Mexico has the greatest [fill in the blank] in the world... And Mexican music dominates the airwaves in CA... and not the good kind of music, Mariachi crap: ¨Los Pendejos del Norte¨. And God forbid that anyone in the Spanish speaking world has any kind of a ¨cross over¨ hit. In that case, Univision has to produce their own version of the same song staring Los Pendehos del Norte in all their cowboy boots, hats & tassles. Oh, and the mexican sense of entitlement, that California rightfully belongs to Mexico, and if they just continue to out breed the Gavachos [derogatory Mexican term for Gringos] that they can reclaim California as their birthright.

I´m not sure if it´s the same in the other states, but when I vacationed in Miami... I found that another Hispanic ethinc group held a similar disposition as the Mexicans in So. CA: the Cubans. Funny, in Florida, they don´t have El Pollo Loco, but they have Pollo Tropical, where they serve Platanos & Yuca.

What surprises me about a number of Mexican immigrants that I´ve met in California, isn´t the fact that they still refuse to learn English... but that they´re just as illiterate in Spanish as they are in English. But then, most of the immigrants from Mexico come from farm labor anyway.

If the Mexicans posed a serious workforce threat to the professional workforce in the US... maybe someone would raise a serious stink about it. Until then Californians are happy to undercut their skilled labor force by hiring Pépé from the parking lot to install the crap they just bought at the Home Depot.

Well, now that I´ve gotten that off of my chest... I guess I need to don my Nomex chonies.

Cheers,

Peter.

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poco says on Aug 16, 2009, 12:56:

I still haven't seen anything GREAT about Colombian food. My guess is,, they might get a few things from,, somewhere else and make a dish but,, gee,, I think the Colombian National Dish is Beans/Rice/Chicken.

I've never seen a pepper shaker on a table,, let alone a pepper grinder.

Well,, there is rabbit stew / chopped rabbit / rabbit steaks (pretty small) and of course briarpatch bugs w/ mushrooms.

LUCKY,, sniffing the banana tree. Rabbits don't get nice and plump eating banana leaves,, but they do like them. Yummmmy.

Colombian Chickens are crowing about the new President of the U.S. who will assure that From each according to their ability to each according to their need.

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Monpirri says on Aug 16, 2009, 13:33:

All I can see if you cannot read Spanish is going to be hard to understand and to pass a judgement as to what is Great and Diverse in Colombian cooking.
I have posted quite a few dishes above, and yeah we are big in grains; frijoles rojos, pintos, blancos, abas, lentejas, garbanzos and the list goes on.

TO: The mods
Every once in while we get the newbies and the same unexperienced travelers posting the very same questions is it posible to make this post sticky?

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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goin_south says on Aug 16, 2009, 13:41:

to monpirrito (and, also for LZ) ....
................el paladar no tiene lengua; solamente la lengüeta.
_________

eat it and weep :-)))

nothin I say is to be takn for my words, but rather for the words of Sailor Jerry.

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pjerick says on Aug 18, 2009, 06:35:

A Taste of Colombia is a great coffee table book. It helps one understand the diversity in Colombian cusine.

Cheers,

¨Some people you just can´t reach.¨

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pjerick says on Aug 18, 2009, 06:46:

Oh, and about not being able to find a pepper shaker on a table... did you over-look the aji?

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Lowell says on Aug 18, 2009, 11:37:

Now, I find black pepper kind of bland.

Alfred E. Newman. "What. Me Worry?"

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poco says on Aug 18, 2009, 14:27:

I'd say less than 10% have aji on the table,,, maybe you need to ask for it? Still,, the Colombians I've met don't like "very much" hot sauce or spice ie: zero is OK with them. Don't like chili or spaghetti with more than a "dab".

The rabbit was lucky I said DO NOT eat the rabbit.

Lucky is just another pet. Cute,, a chicken butt sniffing pet,, good thing I've got chickens or Lucky would be just another leg humping rabbit.

Lucky he wasn't the main course at dinner, lucky I didn't have him neutered,, lucky he now has a wardrobe.

Lucky wearing his pullover on a cool evening. Lucky really is lucky,, he'd like to have it dicked but I haven't furnished him any rabbit muff.

Colombian Chickens are crowing about the new President of the U.S. who will assure that From each according to their ability to each according to their need.

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