As for empanaadas, you got calzones, knishes, pirogi, pirozhki, pasties, and dozens of variations of bread/pastry shells filled with meat, vegetables, fruits, etc.

Steve, the press are too interested in trying to make something of the Clinton Foundation to look at what the Trump Foundation has been up to. Just because they made an illegal political contribution to Bondi, and fudged their books to cover it and received a fine, doesn’t mean that it is more important than Clinton Foundation staff asking for official duty passports for a trip to North Korea, even if they diddn’t get the passports while Pam Bondi did get the $25K.

that’s what I grew up with, but now that you mention it, I’d like to be able to get habichuelas too, so we’ll need empanada trucks to go with those taco trucks.

tamales are a bit of a pain, my own experience is that you have to make a huge batch of them to make it worthwhile. which is why I want to be able to buy them at the tamale truck. 🙂

As for Drumpf, I just read that he apparently “gave a gift” of $25k from the Trump Foundation to your great state’s (former?) AG, Pam Bondi, who responded three days later by dropping an investigation of “Trump University” (wink, wink), resulting in a large fine by the IRS (charitable foundations cannot legally give money to politicians or campaigns). Are the fewmets about to hit the windmill?

(And that, appropriately, was Comment #13 on this thread!)

Words change – a grocery used to be a general store that sold booze in the 19th century.

For some reason the local stores don’t carry hot cross buns. The commissary on the Air Base does, but not the local supermarkets.

Setting up a sausage sizzle with the lines that have resulted from the Republican changes to voting laws would be a money maker. Cocoa, coffee, tea, and hot cider would certainly be a good deal in the North.

The supermarket had 9 hr slow cooked shredded beef & pork on sale yesterday. In fact, almost everything was 30%-50% off! I usually spend $80-$100 on a shop. But I spent $183 yesterday and saved $63 (would have been $246)! Mostly freezer goods or things I can freeze, like meat & fish. The top grade grass fed King Island porterhouse is normally $48/kg, was 45% off (which made it almost the same price as the no-name steaks you don’t want the details of), so I got a half dozen 300g portions. Also some nice rump & Salmon & smoked cod too. Even fruit & veg were 50% off! 🙂 One thing that amazed me was they were already putting out Xmas bakery stuff! Like fruit mince pies (which I got a 6-pack because they really are excellent!) But… already??! I bet they do hot cross buns in Jan. next! Sheesh.

Thanks to the Austerity morons, everyone is broke. All the stores are slashing prices. *shrug* I saw it coming, but wasn’t expecting it so fast!

Oh yeah, around the turn of the 20th century, Cantina’s were basically bar’s. When I had my short trip to Mexico in the 80’s, they were still predominantly places where the men (only) would hang & drink & play card or board games, but there were some that were turned into family run restaurants by then. 🙂 Pretty much the same in Italy, except they were wine & coffee bars originally. 🙂

Obviously Mr Gutierrez is unaware of the American political tradition of promising people food to support a particular candidate. Is ‘a taco truck on every corner’ really all that different than ‘a chicken in every pot’? All of those individual entrepreneurs out there competing for the taco dollars – how American can you get?

You can use beef barbecue or a chuck roast cooked for a day with some decent seasoning to get the shredded beef, but people don’t bother, Juanita.

Kryten, we used to have ‘canteens’ in the first half of the 20th century that were similar to cantinas in purpose, but the use faded out in the US. Cantine in French, Cantina in Spanish and Italian originally meant wine cellar.