Re: USAGE: Meals [was: RE: Re(2): USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches]
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 12, 1999, 1:55 |
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On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, FFlores wrote:
>Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
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>> >>maybe _dulce de leche_ (Argentine creation, you have
>> >>to try it!).
>> OK. How do you make it? Is it something you buy off the shelf or is
>> it made from scratch?
>
>Off the shelf. I saw it being made once in a factory; put
>about 2000 lts of milk in a giant round pot and heat and
>move it around for several hours or days (?) until most
>of the water has evaporated and the milk has turned a brown
>and dense sticky mass. I think many countries (esp. in the
>EU) refuse to import it because it contains ashes (unnoticeable
>quantities).
Cool. 2000 l, eh? Let's see if we have a pot big enough...
>
>You can try if you want to -- I assume people must have made
>it by hand somehow at some point in time!
>
>> Speaking of festivities, did anyone attend la griteria last week?
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>What?? A shouting festival? ;)
Yeah! Apparently it's a Guatemalan thing done on or about Immaculate
Conception, which was imported a couple of years ago due to the number
of Guatemalans in the church. At the start of mass, the priest reads
off a bunch of questions, which all the women in the church answered
in a shouting voice.
Afterwards, there was a procession over to the school gymnasium, where
an altar to Nuestra Sra de Guadalupe had been set up; and there were
helium balloons all around this altar and more balloons attached to
almost every chair in the place. There, they had a bunch of prayers
and hymns (all done very loudly). During this, the younger kids bring
out refreshments: first some cool drinks, then a few of hymns later a
salad (with yucca and chicken). A few of hymns later (there are about
twenty hymns all together), we were all given bananas and oranges and
cog rattles. Then for about the last 3 hymns everyone is singing very
loudly (or talking) and whirling these rattles around, and we're given
oranges with flags on sharp sticks stuck into them. And (big finale!)
for the last hymn the rattles are going full tilt, the song is being
sung at full volume, there's talking and laughing all about, and of
course the popping of about a thousand balloons. This last goes on
for about 5 minutes, then we all go home. Which in and of itself
takes a good half hour, because people are still talking or singing
and rattling.
_That's_ la griteria.
Padraic.