“Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,” the Tribune said.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez asked. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
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I have the belief that the great and real melting pot is only achieved by food. It is primal and you either like or don’t but does not rise to major stupidity levels till now.
As Hispanic with direct heritage from Spain, I actually almost feel insulted by the Gutierrez Moron. I am guessing she has no knowledge of the Bocadillo which is what Spaniards call the sandwich and it usually involves lots of chorizo and/or serrano ham (like prosciutto) . In Venezuela, the equivalent of the steak Sandwich is called Pepito and has many other names if you keep going south. Roasted pork, ham, swiss cheese, mustard and pickles between .two halves of Cuban bread is the good old Cuban Sandwich. Sliced roast beef (loin or rump roast), mozzarella cheese, sliced tomato and pickles topped with salt and dried oregano inside a hollowed-out French bread roll id what Brazilians call Bauru. Peru’s Pan con Chicharron is fried pork with slices of fried sweet potato and salsa criolla, a type of onion relish on crusty French roll.
Verenice Gutierrez should be sent back to school or at least sit her down and Google Latin American Sandwiches before she is even allowed to interact with children again. And remove her membership to Taco Bell’s Customer of the Month Club.
The fact that this was said by a “school official” should be the first clue that there is absolutely no logic or knowledge (much less research!) behind the statement. It is driven by nothing more than emotion tinged with White Guilt, unicorn farts, and a slight flavoring of leprechaun scorn (mostly for color).
Well, yeah, hand some poor immigrant kid a PBJ, and he may become one of those American flag waving, achievement orientated types that beleives in individualism and votes Republician!! [/sarc]
PB&J on a carb balance Tortilla…..because some can not do the sugar/flour thing….it`s good!…….. 🙂
To be honest I never liked PB&J. I preferred just plain old ham and cheese.
But parents everywhere know for around five or six dollars, they can feed their kids instead of shelling out to buy school lunches. You don’t have time to be ethnically-sensitive when your budget becomes 20USD for food after expenses.
Oh great, now I’m hungry again. Thanks Miguel. Jerk… j/k 😛
My history professor’s son suggested that immigrants should only be allowed to come to the United States if their culture has good food.
Fortunately I have never encountered any culture that hasn’t produced at least a few delicious things, so this works out to a very liberal immigration policy, which I favor.