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Post by fumobici on Oct 14, 2009 15:34:43 GMT
Not Italy, that's for sure. I've seen Mexican themed places in Paris.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 14, 2009 16:27:58 GMT
Keep guessing.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2009 5:07:03 GMT
I don't think any country consumes much Mexican food, because they basically can't tell the difference from Tex-Mex and that is usually what they eat. Just about all of the Tex-Mex products in France are imported from the Netherlands, which has the Casa Fiesta brand. There are also a lot of Old El Paso products for sale, which I doubt are imported from the U.S. but I have not looked on the packages to see where the European factory is.
(In fact, just about nothing could be imported from North or South America since genetically modified corn is forbidden here.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2009 3:09:03 GMT
I took these two pictures at the Xoxo market this morning. They're a definite clue to the time of year -- Days of the Dead are coming soon. These are plastic, but I'll go to the big Abastos market sometime this week and there will be tons made of more traditional plaster. The standing figure seems to be a pregnant woman having a terminal bad hair day, and the kneeling one is crushing slaked corn into tortilla dough. The dolls below all depict La Catrina -- death.
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Post by hwinpp on Oct 19, 2009 11:12:19 GMT
Is that All Saints?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2009 14:44:29 GMT
Yes. Sorry, HW -- the Mexican name for the holiday has been so publicized in the US in the past few years that I forgot it wouldn't be recognizable to everyone. I will be posting more about it, as it's an extremely important holiday here. Oaxaca is very traditional and each town has variations on the celebration.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2009 17:46:05 GMT
Actually, All Saints Day is November 1st and the Day of the Dead is November 2nd.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 19, 2009 18:40:12 GMT
I refer to it here as the Days of the Dead because the season itself is celebrated, and because I'm writing in English. This period is frequently referred to casually as "muertos" locally.
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