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		| Guy Courchesne 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:31 am    Post subject: Blissful Mexican Pleasures |   |  
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				| Don't deny it...you have one.  What is it? 
 Mine are mostly food related.  Beef tacos with Oaxaca cheese and a garlic red salsa.  Or what I'm eating now...
 
 Frozen Pinguinos
 
 Your vices?
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		| lozwich 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:37 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Frozen pinguinos????? What are they? 
 I always liked a good emu burger. Never tasted them in Oz, but the little town in Oaxaca where I lived had its own emu farm! (Its pronounced eeem-you by the way
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 And a paloma, sin sal.
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		| MikeySaid 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:42 am    Post subject: Re: Blissful Mexican Pleasures |   |  
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	  | Guy Courchesne wrote: |  
	  | Don't deny it...you have one.  What is it? 
 Your vices?
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 Moteles de paso?
 
 hahaha.
 
 I would say gansitos, but they're here now.
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		| cscx 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:59 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Tacos!  Especially tacos arabes, gringas...mmm, I love carne al pastor!  It's just not the same at the tago wagons here in the States...also horchata, agua de jamaica, cochinita pibil...yum yum yum! |  | 
	
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		| lozwich 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:05 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Oh god, horchata! 
 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
 
 I used to also drink a fair amount of agua de tamarindo, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the cute agua guy!!
  Had to stop though, when it started ripping out my insides. 
 That yoghurt drink with pasas y nueces. Double mmmmmmmmmmmmm
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		| Guy Courchesne 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:33 am    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | Frozen pinguinos????? What are they? |  
 Couldn't find a picture to show you...they are cream-filled chocolate cupcakes.  I throw them in the freezer and eat them frozen.
 
 Que golosos somos!
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		| Ben Round de Bloc 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:41 am    Post subject: |   |  
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 Ping�inos are the Mexican version of Hostess Cupcakes.  However, according to the site below, there's a slight difference in nutritional value between the two.
 
 http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~levine/Cupcake_Wars.html
 
 I can't believe I just took the time to look that up.
   I definitely need to get a life.
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		| ls650 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:42 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| After reading the title of this thread, I somehow expected (or perhaps hoped) it would be more risque...  |  | 
	
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		| samizinha 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:48 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Palomas at night, followed by  chicken pozole the next morning  |  | 
	
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		| sickbag 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:51 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Vicente Fernandez - the ONLY Mexican music I can stomach - and it's very good. 
 Tacos alambre
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		| Polly0607 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:52 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| But there are so many.. 
 Tamales oaxaque�os
 Chilaquiles
 Enchiladas
 Pozole
 Fresh fruit
 Pan de nata (de feria)
 Churros
 Tacos de bistek
 
 A little off topic, but I love the fact that I can go running any day of the year
 Not wearing winter boots
 No black ice
 
 
 
 Things I am not so fond of...
 
 Pastel de tres leches
 Tacos de cabeza
 Pancita
 Barbacoa
 Hot candy
 Mexican chocolate
 
 Mexican drivers
 Garbage
 Lack of essential services
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		| Guy Courchesne 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:59 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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	  | Vicente Fernandez - the ONLY Mexican music I can stomach - and it's very good. 
 Tacos alambre
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 And the son, Alejandro?  I think he's a pretty decent mariachi.
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		| MELEE 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:22 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I'll spice it up. My darling husband is my favorite thing Mexican.
   
 But moteles de pasos-----ewwww. I always get creaped out thinking of all the scanky people who have been there before me.
   
 
 Others
 300 days of sunshine
 Aguas Frescas of all flavors
 Frothy hot chocolate(in a bowl!) on a cool mountain morning
 San Cristobal de las Casas
 Tepoztlan, Morelos
 Fernando Delgadillo
 Los Tehuanies de Acatlan de Orsorio, Puebla (its a folk dance)
 Laura Esquivel (I'm reading La Malinche, at the moment)
 And of course...  LILA DOWNS!
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		| Ben Round de Bloc 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:43 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Blissful pleasures, huh? 
 One of my cousins accuses me of living a minimalist lifestyle in Mexico.  I'm not sure if that's true and/or blissful, but here are some things on my list:
 
 ~ Yucatecan food
 ~ siestas
 ~ ample sunshine all year long
 ~ the beach
 ~ Marlboro rojo cigarettes
 ~ Carlos Quinto chocolate bars
 
 
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		| cscx 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:20 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I should also add that I'm highly amused by getting yelled at on the streets... |  | 
	
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