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Oh, Victor,
I get it now. When you said "Heinz 57", it reminded me of
something my mother and my aunt would say when they were getting ready to fix
dinner and they hadn't shopped or planned a menu for the meal. "Bueno,
pues, hacemos un guiso pendejo". I don't understand "pendejo" (my Mother used to
call me Pendeja when I did something stupid). They would chop up or grind
whatever meat was at hand and make a quick stew in a skillet with whatever
vegetables were at hand, and they would serve it over mashed potatoes or with
"sopa de arroz" (Spanish rice) and fresh homemade flour tortillas or biscuits on
the side. I always would put butter on my warm toasty tortillas, true
"pocha" that I am. The guiso always came out so good. Like
Joseph, I miss the food of my childhood, and as much as I can, I try to
reproduce it by cooking from scratch like they did.
I asked my husband what he would call the mixture of races in Mexico, and
he said "una revoltura [de razas]. I think "guiso pendejo" would fit too,
but maybe that is not appropriate. What do I know?
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ---
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 4:51
PM
Subject: [ranchos] Re: Trevino match, DNA
and the Today show - Capirotada
Sorry, Emilie. That was supposed to be a humorous
remark about our
diverse genetic make up in Mexico in reference to all the
different
haplogroups of Ed's grandparents.
I was just trying to
find an equivalent _expression_ to "heinz 57" in
the US, when someone has a
mix of several ancestries.
Capirotada is a typical sweet Mexican
dessert made up of a lot of
ingredients, as Joseph
remembers.
Victor
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "Emilie
Garcia" <auntyemfaustus@h...>
wrote:
>
> Victor,
>
> I thought they called it the "Mestizaje"? However, that word is
not
in my Spanish dictionary. I found "mescladura" and "mezcolanza".
What say you, Jose Roman? What do they call it in Mexico?
>
> Emilie Garcia
> Port Orchard, WA ---
> -----
Original Message -----
> From:
v.h.villarreal<mailto:raices_regias@y...>
> To:
ranchos@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:00
AM
> Subject: [ranchos] Re: Trevino match, DNA and the Today
show
>
>
> --- In
ranchos@yahoogroups.com<mailto:ranchos@yahoogroups.com>,
"Edward
Serros" <ed@s<mailto:ed@s>...> wrote:
> >
> > For starters I have 4 grandparents (Serros,
Felguerez, Salas,
> Suarez) and the following is
> > the DNA data that I have gathered. They all have a
"story", which in
> some cases made me
>
> check a great grandparent line. The results sometimes help when
we
> get to the genealogy
> > road
blocks that we all arrive at.
> >
>
> Felguerez great grandfather (Y-DNA haplogroup K), Pinedo
(mtDNA
> haplogroup A), Cerros
> >
(Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1c*) Salas (Y-DNA haplogroup R1b),
Suarez
> (Y-DNA haplogroup
> > Q),
Sosa (mtDNA haplogroup C).
> >
> >
Ed
> >
>
> Ed,
>
> The Americans talk about the "melting pot"; the
Canadians speak about
> a "mosaic". The Italians tutti
frutti.
>
> What could we call the Mexican mix?
Capirotada? Sopa de Letras?
>
>
Victor
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