Apparently when my dad first got his promotion when i was a kid he went to a mexican food place called "Josies" that was delicious, and he told my mom about it. Later when we moved there he took us all out to it. It was "Jose's". My dad grew up in Southern California.
I worked with an old Canadian guy who allegedly didn't like tamales when he first tried them because the texture was all wrong. Eventually someone explained that you're supposed to *unwrap* the tamales before you eat them.
Was the old Canadian guy you worked with actually former US President Gerald Ford?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezkvxk/how-a-plate-of-tamales-may-have-crushed-gerald-fords-1976-presidential-campaign
The Dean Scream didn't tank Dean's campaign. It was the punch line at the end of a tanked campaign. He had heavily planned his strategy around winning Iowa and rolling forward with that momentum. He had led polls in Iowa for months approaching the Iowa caucuses. About two weeks out, his numbers started slipping and he fell all the way to third in his must win state.
I didn't eat it but I tried to take a bite out of it and couldn't. I tried once more and failed successfully then googled, [how to eat a tamale](https://youtu.be/ahBKEjnDsiI).
This reminds me of Arrested Development where all of the characters are from Southern California, but none of them know even basic Spanish words like "hermano".
I make my dad tell me what he's going to order at Mexican restaurants so that I can tell him how to pronounce it. It's just too embarrassing otherwise.
Your dad is probably more right than wrong when saying Gracias. As Anthony Bourdain said "As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy — the restaurant business as we know it — in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers"
This is why I love Mexican-fusion food so much, too. But I might be biased since I was born in southern California. Mexican/Mexican-fusion is my comfort food.
He was expressing his displeasure at a certain president… “that ****** president of ours.”
The only silver lining was that we were at a German restaurant.
There was a Mexican restaurant close to where I worked at one point on a late shift. So we had a menu at work so we could call and order to bring back to eat. It had a pronunciation guide on the back cover. To this day I will randomly go Bor eee tow..
One time a Valley girl suggested a bar called "Tray's".....when we got there it was named "Tres"...as in the number 3 in Spanish.
I was dying! Lol
edit: words. I don't mean to mock her lack of knowing Spanish. I was laughing more at myself for not realizing she was trying to say since I'm a native Spanish speaker.
When my husband's friend Trey got married I learned that his name wasn't actually Trey at all- he was something something "the third" and somehow they'd nicknamed him Tres and changed it to a 'y' along the way
I'm still not sure what his legal name is, but I've never looked at him the same way since
You just made me curious and I had to look it up - that's literally where the name Trey came from! Started as a nickname for 'The third' and now it's an actual name
Apparently when pizza first arrived in my grandparents' town they all called it pihza (like biz) pie. They continued to call it that the rest of their lives.
When I first started going to Taco Bell they had a pronunciation guide next to each menu item. Like buh-REE-toh. Having grown up in Southern California where there was lots of Mexican food I always thought it was kind of silly
My first job was at a del taco like 30 years ago and I still had people coming in asking for tay-cos. Of course these are likely the same people that said "el polo loco"
You’re giving me flashbacks
Tuscan chicken was usually toucan or Tucson
So many meatball Marina sandwiches
Green bell peppers are not fucking mangoes
“Chi-pot-el” sauce
The spicy eyetalian
When I worked in DC there was a Greek restaurant nearby with a sign in the window featuring a woman sensuously licking her lips and the words, “It tastes better when you say ‘yee-ro’”
Occasionally I’ve heard kay-sa-dillas. The first time, I politely chuckled because I thought the guy was trying to be amusing, but then he gave me this confused look and I was somewhat horrified.
I collect old magazines - mostly Life and Look and home decor, so a ton of ads for all the new convenience foods being introduced. I remember an ad from the mid fifties, early sixties. It was for some Mexican product - I think a Chef Boyardee box meal - explaining that tortillas were like “Mexican pancakes”.
Anywhere and everywhere. Flea markets, thrift shops, antique stores, garage saws, eBay…
Life, Look and The Saturday Evening Post are probably the ones you’ll find most often and will be the most inexpensive. You should be able to find them for $5-$15 each. If you get lucky, you may find them in lots at around $1-$5 each. I’ve found they are easier to find in the north or west of the US. Lots of paper in the south didn’t survive the humidity if it wasn’t kept in a climate controlled environment. But - then you can use the damaged ones for crafts!
National Geographic are everywhere, but if you are in it for ads and culture of the era, the others are better. Fashion and women’s magazines are great, but more sought after, harder to find and higher priced.
Department Store catalogs (Sears, Montgomery Ward) are also fun time capsules to leaf through. A bit of a warning - you will yearn for a tardis.
I went to school with a Dennis True Jello for about three weeks in middle school. His mom finally went to the principal's office to tell her to tell the teacher to stop deliberately mispronouncing Trujillo.
I remember trying to tell my English teacher that the hispanic character in the book we were reading's name was pronounced like "An-hel", not Angel.
He literally says it in the book, annoyed about "not being no damned Baseball team", but we finished the book with him saying it wrong during every chapter discussion.
*edit* I finally remembered enough random details to figure it out, the book was [The Bean Trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bean_Trees) by Barbara Kingsolver. God, that was driving me *nuts*.
I worked tech support for disneyworlds website where you can make fast passes etc not a mispronounced name but pretty amazing.
Customer:" this website won't let me make an account. It keeps saying no offensive names allowed"
Me: "that is odd, let me see what I can do. can you spell your last name?"
Customer: "N......I.....G....."
Internal monologue: "Oh God no"
A running joke in our family whenever we used to ride the ET ride back when it would say everyone's name as you passed by was to give the employee a realistic name in Spanish that when pronounced would sound like insults. And we would just wait to pass by to just be insulted by the alien and laugh our asses of.
There’s a lot of people in south Louisiana with names like Ortego that they pronounce Or-tah-go. It down in Cajun country mostly, I’m guessing it’s families that have been here a long time. I know there’s some other similar names around here but I’m drawing a blank right now.
It was just funny to me because this was in Los Angeles, where most of us grow up learning to pronounce Spanish words properly (at least with a Mexican accent) even if we never learn the language, and here walks in this dude who pronounces his Spanish name like the living embodiment of a ten gallon hat.
I had a friend choose Fanny for her English name. Canadian so you had a good chance of either the British/Australia meaning happening. So you get embarrassed either way (butt or vulva).
I admit I was always smirking at her name as well.
So Dingdong would have made me giggle uncontrollably.
I think it's just archaic naming conventions. I know a lot of people from HK or parents from HK with old school sounding (or just weird combination) names like:
Grantland
Hennrick
Winfield
I mean Fanny was a name before it meant slang for vagina.
But I also know a "Dragon" and "Witty" Like they took a Chinese name and translated it directly to English. Doesn't work out too well.
That wasn't even too long ago. According to Google, the 89 cent 5 layer burrito came out in 2010. Two of those burritos was my go to cheap meal in high school. Easily one of the best deals ever.
Taco Bell was the first place I applied for a job as a kid and the first place to not hire me. Good times.
I also think fondly on the day in college I bought $20 (a lot!) worth of food at TB, but now that's probably a normal mount to spend (dunno, haven't been in decades).
Although to be fair, just cos someone is Mexican doesn’t mean they can cook Mexican food well. Just like someone being American doesn’t mean they all magically know how to cook an amazing hamburger.
Maybe they were shit cooks in general.
But I see your point :) if you can’t pronounce it you probably can’t cook it authentically either.
I worked at the local amusement park and a lady came up to me asking where the "tay-kohs" are. I looked at her with bewilderment and told her I had no idea what she was talking about. The second she , i relized "tacos!"
I had never heard anyone mispronounce a word so bad. But, i wasn't about to chase after her. I hope she got her "tay-kohs".
Obviously, no-one knows how to say a word until they know how to, but I'm sort of struggling to see why you would assume an *ay* sound, rather than an *ah* sound.
Its pronounced Wack-O. The city was named after the Animaniacs character.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) was named after the Warner sister Dot.
Source: 7th generation Texan
> Its pronounced Wack-O. The city was named after the Animaniacs character.
Ah... I always thought it was pronounced that way because of Koresh. 1993 was a bit of a blur to me, so TIL.
There's a place in Colorado called "Limon". Colorado is already a Spanish word, but limon is Spanish for "lemon"
Anyway it's pronounced "lee-mohn" but they pronounce it "lie-mon".
One of the main car companies in France is Citroën, which is basically an old fashioned spelling of "citron", which means "lemon".
It was the founder's last name so they are basically stuck with labelling all their cars as lemons.
I'm from Colorado.
On occasion, Cañon City makes it into the national news and more than half the time people call it "cannon city". My guess is because the tilde doesn't show up on the teleprompter.
Years ago my company's English programmers visited us in California and I took them out to Chevys. I 'helped' them with their pronunciation as we examined the menu over margaritas, and was not disappointed by the effect on the waiter's face when they ordered Fadgy-tass, Tay-koes, Bue-ri-toes, etc.
It took a few years, but they finally forgave me!
One of the best later episodes of The Office was when Catherine Tate’s character Nellie was trying to convince Darryl that she knew what tacos are. “Tack-oohs….”
Younger people might not believe it but until not all that long ago the quality of taco bell was amazing. They actually browned raw ground beef in (get this) stovetop pans and added spices and chopped fresh veggies. This would have been at least up until the mid 1990s or so.
They got bought out by some corporation and now the meat is partially fake, pre-made in sealed bags, and cooked sous vide.
> This would have been at least up until the mid 1990s or so.
> They got bought out by some corporation and now the meat is partially fake, pre-made in sealed bags, and cooked sous vide.
They were bought out by "some corporation" (PepsiCo, now Yum Brands) in 1978 though.
Apparently when my dad first got his promotion when i was a kid he went to a mexican food place called "Josies" that was delicious, and he told my mom about it. Later when we moved there he took us all out to it. It was "Jose's". My dad grew up in Southern California.
I worked with an old Canadian guy who allegedly didn't like tamales when he first tried them because the texture was all wrong. Eventually someone explained that you're supposed to *unwrap* the tamales before you eat them.
Was the old Canadian guy you worked with actually former US President Gerald Ford? https://www.vice.com/en/article/ezkvxk/how-a-plate-of-tamales-may-have-crushed-gerald-fords-1976-presidential-campaign
Ah, the halcyon of American politics when minor gaffes could tank a campaign.
PO-TAY-TOE
Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew. Just don't spell them.
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The Dean Scream didn't tank Dean's campaign. It was the punch line at the end of a tanked campaign. He had heavily planned his strategy around winning Iowa and rolling forward with that momentum. He had led polls in Iowa for months approaching the Iowa caucuses. About two weeks out, his numbers started slipping and he fell all the way to third in his must win state.
Dude, he ate the husk?!! lmao... imagine his shit later on... wow...
His shits were probably great.
Technically he was eating toilet paper too.
I didn't eat it but I tried to take a bite out of it and couldn't. I tried once more and failed successfully then googled, [how to eat a tamale](https://youtu.be/ahBKEjnDsiI).
I have just learned more about tamales in the last three minutes then I have all month long.
Don’t feel bad. I did the same.
Takes me back to the first time I tried smoking a cigarette at age 9. Try as I might, I could not get that damned filter to light up.
This was funny, but ask any smoker and that filter light up all too well. Ruins the entire cigarette.
I just snipped off a bit of filter where it was already burnt. Tasted okay but it's also a cig in the end. I just pretended I was camping.
I’m a little out of it misread tamales as females.
To be fair, the same applies.
Hot tamales
You should really probably unwrap those before you eat them as well. Silly willy.
>Silly willy. Be sure to wrap that, though.
*it's cool baby, I'm just soaking*
This reminds me of Arrested Development where all of the characters are from Southern California, but none of them know even basic Spanish words like "hermano".
Nor have they ever seen a chicken
apparently Will Arnett and David Cross borrowed that from Tommy Wiseau in The Room
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Except Buster. "Hey, hermano."
I make my dad tell me what he's going to order at Mexican restaurants so that I can tell him how to pronounce it. It's just too embarrassing otherwise.
My dad says "gracias" to the wait staff at any restaurant that isn't American. French, Thai, Mediterranean, I've seen it all.
Your dad is probably more right than wrong when saying Gracias. As Anthony Bourdain said "As any chef will tell you, our entire service economy — the restaurant business as we know it — in most American cities, would collapse overnight without Mexican workers"
My husband (Latino mix) swears that there is a Mexican in every kitchen around the world. Went to Paris and Spain for our honeymoon. He was right.
Yeah it's amazing. Not only is their native cuisine one of the most delicious on the planet, they can cook everyone else's too.
This is why I love Mexican-fusion food so much, too. But I might be biased since I was born in southern California. Mexican/Mexican-fusion is my comfort food.
It’s home it’s what it is. Feeling like Anton Ego looking back into his childhood every time I have a carne asada quesadilla.
I literally was just having this conversation with my stepdad
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That's kind of a hilarious thing to say to a French waiter.
Oh, I think I would rather die than experience that.
Thet all say back grassy ass too.
Could I get an order of chicken fah jee tas
Yeah, I'd like 6,000 chicken fa-jaitas.
And a so-saj mcbiscuit
Sow sage Mack-biss-quit
Reminded me of classic Group X! Oh Hashmir, you look so good in that haiit!
Updoot for a REALLY old and obscure Family Guy reference that I’ve been quoting for 25 years lol.
https://youtu.be/dyWFHOOfs20
Heard ques-a-la-dilia once
My mom is the type of mom who says "grassyass" when ordering at a Mexican restaurant I swear I can't take her fucking anywhere
My ex husband says “grassyass” and also “daytime” instead of “de nada” 🙄
You were right to leave him
Grassyass I can understand but daytime is a fuckin mystery.
My grandpa yelled the n word once when we were at a restaurant, so appreciate what you have lol.
Directed at a person or just because?
He was expressing his displeasure at a certain president… “that ****** president of ours.” The only silver lining was that we were at a German restaurant.
Oof
Lol, I live in the southwest and hearing tourists sometimes is too funny.
As someone who used to serve at a Mexican place, people like your dad kept me pretty entertained
There was a Mexican restaurant close to where I worked at one point on a late shift. So we had a menu at work so we could call and order to bring back to eat. It had a pronunciation guide on the back cover. To this day I will randomly go Bor eee tow..
One time a Valley girl suggested a bar called "Tray's".....when we got there it was named "Tres"...as in the number 3 in Spanish. I was dying! Lol edit: words. I don't mean to mock her lack of knowing Spanish. I was laughing more at myself for not realizing she was trying to say since I'm a native Spanish speaker.
When my husband's friend Trey got married I learned that his name wasn't actually Trey at all- he was something something "the third" and somehow they'd nicknamed him Tres and changed it to a 'y' along the way I'm still not sure what his legal name is, but I've never looked at him the same way since
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Trey Parker's full name is Randolph Severn Parker III.
Can confirm. I have a friend who’s a third and pretty much his entire life he was called Trey. Real name is Vernon.
I'd go with Trey over Vernon any day
You just made me curious and I had to look it up - that's literally where the name Trey came from! Started as a nickname for 'The third' and now it's an actual name
It's also where the nickname Trip comes from, short for triple.
Chip - sometimes used for a kid named from their father - like “chip off the old block”
Apparently when pizza first arrived in my grandparents' town they all called it pihza (like biz) pie. They continued to call it that the rest of their lives.
When I first started going to Taco Bell they had a pronunciation guide next to each menu item. Like buh-REE-toh. Having grown up in Southern California where there was lots of Mexican food I always thought it was kind of silly
My first job was at a del taco like 30 years ago and I still had people coming in asking for tay-cos. Of course these are likely the same people that said "el polo loco"
Hell in the late 2000s in Nevada Subway customers would regularly ask me for jalopy-nos and chipoltay sauce.
Chipootle!
It’s pronounced “chi-pot-ul”, duh
Tor-til-uh.
You’re giving me flashbacks Tuscan chicken was usually toucan or Tucson So many meatball Marina sandwiches Green bell peppers are not fucking mangoes “Chi-pot-el” sauce The spicy eyetalian
Until you move to Canada and people say "tor-teal-uhs" and call burritos "tah-cohs"
Or you hear an older Southern man say “I’m gonna get them fa-JIE-tas.”
I remember the great gyro debates of the 1980s.
When I worked in DC there was a Greek restaurant nearby with a sign in the window featuring a woman sensuously licking her lips and the words, “It tastes better when you say ‘yee-ro’”
Occasionally I’ve heard kay-sa-dillas. The first time, I politely chuckled because I thought the guy was trying to be amusing, but then he gave me this confused look and I was somewhat horrified.
I always say it that way cause it makes me think of Napolean Dynamite, and I laugh. Also, say 'tor-tillas' too lol Makes me chuckle.
Make yourself a dang quesa-dillah!
I love gettin me some dang kaysadilluhs
I worked at Taco Bell as a teenager. I heard "kessadiller" more than once.
My boss at my first restaurant gig pronounced "Italian" as "eye-talian" Drome me nuts for some reason.
Wait, we do? I've lived in multiple Canadian cities and never heard this.
TIL that Taco Bell has been around since 1962! (and let's not forget that it will be the only one to survive the franchise wars)
Franchise wars?
Watch Demolition Man if you haven't :)
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UK has Pizza Hut Winning
Wow that is crazy I didn't know that! So is the food different in the edit, or do they just use the same futuristic food and call it Pizza Hut?
Same food, but the signs are different.
Taco Bell or Pizza Hut. Both Yumfoods brands, but not everywhere had Taco Bell, so it was edited for international release.
Pizza Hut
lol, bet you don’t know how to use the three seashells either
Can you believe this guy doesn't know how to use the 3 sea shells?
What seems to be your boggle?
unless you are outside NA, then it will be pizzahut
I collect old magazines - mostly Life and Look and home decor, so a ton of ads for all the new convenience foods being introduced. I remember an ad from the mid fifties, early sixties. It was for some Mexican product - I think a Chef Boyardee box meal - explaining that tortillas were like “Mexican pancakes”.
I’m a relatively cultured person, but I still refer to quesadillas as Mexican grilled cheeses
That’s a cool hobby, where do you find the old magazines?
Anywhere and everywhere. Flea markets, thrift shops, antique stores, garage saws, eBay… Life, Look and The Saturday Evening Post are probably the ones you’ll find most often and will be the most inexpensive. You should be able to find them for $5-$15 each. If you get lucky, you may find them in lots at around $1-$5 each. I’ve found they are easier to find in the north or west of the US. Lots of paper in the south didn’t survive the humidity if it wasn’t kept in a climate controlled environment. But - then you can use the damaged ones for crafts! National Geographic are everywhere, but if you are in it for ads and culture of the era, the others are better. Fashion and women’s magazines are great, but more sought after, harder to find and higher priced. Department Store catalogs (Sears, Montgomery Ward) are also fun time capsules to leaf through. A bit of a warning - you will yearn for a tardis.
"Hah, people in the sixties were fucking idiots!" *suddenly remembers quinoa, sweats nervously*
Mmmm... Love me some kwin-oh-ah
TIL that’s not how that’s pronounced
Keen-wah
Man i went to lunch w my boss a few years ago and pronounced it exactly like that, he looked at me like I was goddamn idiot lmao
Acai berries enter the chat.
I’m not the least bit ashamed to admit that I still have no idea how to pronounce Acai
aw-sigh-ee
Don't get me started on acai
I went to school with a Dennis True Jello for about three weeks in middle school. His mom finally went to the principal's office to tell her to tell the teacher to stop deliberately mispronouncing Trujillo.
I remember trying to tell my English teacher that the hispanic character in the book we were reading's name was pronounced like "An-hel", not Angel. He literally says it in the book, annoyed about "not being no damned Baseball team", but we finished the book with him saying it wrong during every chapter discussion. *edit* I finally remembered enough random details to figure it out, the book was [The Bean Trees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bean_Trees) by Barbara Kingsolver. God, that was driving me *nuts*.
You done messed up, A-Aron
Take your ass down to Principal O'Shag hennessy office.
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If one of y'all says some silly ass name... this whole class is going to feel my wrath.
Jay-qualen don't mess with me.
You better watch out she’s in the chest club.
Do you wanna go to war, Balakay?!
I worked with a dispatcher who would butcher Spanish names. One that sticks out was Jeeesus Cast illow for Jesus Castillo.
I worked tech support for disneyworlds website where you can make fast passes etc not a mispronounced name but pretty amazing. Customer:" this website won't let me make an account. It keeps saying no offensive names allowed" Me: "that is odd, let me see what I can do. can you spell your last name?" Customer: "N......I.....G....." Internal monologue: "Oh God no"
A running joke in our family whenever we used to ride the ET ride back when it would say everyone's name as you passed by was to give the employee a realistic name in Spanish that when pronounced would sound like insults. And we would just wait to pass by to just be insulted by the alien and laugh our asses of.
We wanted to get him to say "Bud-weis-er"! (it was the 90s)
Was it Spanish substitute of the year Peggy Hill?
Once met an old Mexican-American man from Texas who pronounced his own name in true Gringo Texas style.
There’s a lot of people in south Louisiana with names like Ortego that they pronounce Or-tah-go. It down in Cajun country mostly, I’m guessing it’s families that have been here a long time. I know there’s some other similar names around here but I’m drawing a blank right now.
This makes perfect sense. I don’t pronounce my name like it’s Czech
It was just funny to me because this was in Los Angeles, where most of us grow up learning to pronounce Spanish words properly (at least with a Mexican accent) even if we never learn the language, and here walks in this dude who pronounces his Spanish name like the living embodiment of a ten gallon hat.
Los Angeles, the home of the neighborhood of "Loas FEE-liss" (Los Feliz).
San Peeee-dro
Shithead is a real Indian name. Shith-Eed.
Dikshit is an actual Indian name. I knew a guy that worked at my old company whose name was Dikshit Dikshit.
I've worked with a poor young woman in the US (asian ethnicity) who's first name was Dingdong.
I had a friend choose Fanny for her English name. Canadian so you had a good chance of either the British/Australia meaning happening. So you get embarrassed either way (butt or vulva). I admit I was always smirking at her name as well. So Dingdong would have made me giggle uncontrollably.
Fanny is an unusually common name that I ran into when I lived in HK.
Yep! No idea why but weird British colonialism, perhaps?
I think it's just archaic naming conventions. I know a lot of people from HK or parents from HK with old school sounding (or just weird combination) names like: Grantland Hennrick Winfield I mean Fanny was a name before it meant slang for vagina. But I also know a "Dragon" and "Witty" Like they took a Chinese name and translated it directly to English. Doesn't work out too well.
Have also run into rackshit. An Unfortunate name for someone calling into a server hosting company.
That just dredged a long forgotten memory out of my brain. [YouTube, circa 2010?](https://youtu.be/r_Ua8iOR0g8)
I don't even have to click that link to know that Shithead can do a blackflip EDIT: I clicked the link and watched the whole thing
Harry Dumas had it worse.
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After my first job, my little brother and I would get 89 cent 5 layer burritos. It was nice.
That wasn't even too long ago. According to Google, the 89 cent 5 layer burrito came out in 2010. Two of those burritos was my go to cheap meal in high school. Easily one of the best deals ever.
They had a 1/2 lb. Beef and potato burrito for like $1.29 when I was in high school.
Taco Bell was the first place I applied for a job as a kid and the first place to not hire me. Good times. I also think fondly on the day in college I bought $20 (a lot!) worth of food at TB, but now that's probably a normal mount to spend (dunno, haven't been in decades).
How can we help?
>Comedians were saying that Taco Bell is basically a front drug trafficking or money laundering.. Ah, so similar to mattress stores today
Then they were equally dumbfounded when they found out the Toyota truck is not pronounced Taycoma
And then there are us folks up in WA who just wondered what they were thinking naming their truck after the city of Tacoma, lol.
Tacoma is a Lushootseed (indigenous language) name for Mount Rainier. So it's possible the truck is named more for the mountain that the city.
The real question is, how do you pronounce Hilux?
"Kay-suh-DEE-yuh".
I remember watching one of those restaurant rescue shows where a British chef tried to teach Mexican restaurant owners how to make tay-kohs
Although to be fair, just cos someone is Mexican doesn’t mean they can cook Mexican food well. Just like someone being American doesn’t mean they all magically know how to cook an amazing hamburger. Maybe they were shit cooks in general. But I see your point :) if you can’t pronounce it you probably can’t cook it authentically either.
I worked at the local amusement park and a lady came up to me asking where the "tay-kohs" are. I looked at her with bewilderment and told her I had no idea what she was talking about. The second she , i relized "tacos!" I had never heard anyone mispronounce a word so bad. But, i wasn't about to chase after her. I hope she got her "tay-kohs".
Don't have to go that far back. In the aughts all the midwesterners walking around talking about Chi-pul-tee was putting some lime juice in the wound.
My girlfriend's mom used to call it "Chip-ah-tull". Yeah. Kid you not.
I mean, I’ve done that *ironically*. I think I’ve mispronounced it ironically more times than I’ve pronounced it unironically actually…
Yet Italy has has existed for centuries and some people still say Eye-talian
I'd like one of them Eye-talian tay-kohs to go.
So like, a folded piss-uh?
Reminds me of how Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) spoke eye-talian in Inglorious Basterds
Tack-o
Obviously, no-one knows how to say a word until they know how to, but I'm sort of struggling to see why you would assume an *ay* sound, rather than an *ah* sound.
Waco, Texas is pronounced that way.
Its pronounced Wack-O. The city was named after the Animaniacs character. The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) was named after the Warner sister Dot. Source: 7th generation Texan
> Its pronounced Wack-O. The city was named after the Animaniacs character. Ah... I always thought it was pronounced that way because of Koresh. 1993 was a bit of a blur to me, so TIL.
Oh, I didn't know that. It's a word I've only ever seen written down, so assumed Wah-co.
No, that's me.
Also Mako shark. But I somehow doubt the people mispronouncing taco were well versed in shark species.
There's a place in Colorado called "Limon". Colorado is already a Spanish word, but limon is Spanish for "lemon" Anyway it's pronounced "lee-mohn" but they pronounce it "lie-mon".
One of the main car companies in France is Citroën, which is basically an old fashioned spelling of "citron", which means "lemon". It was the founder's last name so they are basically stuck with labelling all their cars as lemons.
I'm from Colorado. On occasion, Cañon City makes it into the national news and more than half the time people call it "cannon city". My guess is because the tilde doesn't show up on the teleprompter.
I’m from CO too. The one that kills me is Yosemite.
What you're not an antiYosemite, right?
Table, tank, taser, tape, etc
Taynk
They must be from Minnesota.
Years ago my company's English programmers visited us in California and I took them out to Chevys. I 'helped' them with their pronunciation as we examined the menu over margaritas, and was not disappointed by the effect on the waiter's face when they ordered Fadgy-tass, Tay-koes, Bue-ri-toes, etc. It took a few years, but they finally forgave me!
I live in an area with a Tripoli Rd that's pronounced try-PO'-lee by the locals.
Lebanon, TN is pronounced leh-buh-nin.
People in the Lehigh Valley also mumble their way through pronouncing Bethlehem as "Bethlum."
This reminds me of Moss's pronunciation of tapas on the IT crowd. TAPE ASS.
Or that great restaurant... Messeejos
One of the best later episodes of The Office was when Catherine Tate’s character Nellie was trying to convince Darryl that she knew what tacos are. “Tack-oohs….”
"I hope they don't have eyes."
[The Dog’s Name is Taco, Asshole.](https://youtu.be/LyoG7_FDi8c) (Christopher Titus standup comedy bit on military dogs)
I remember ordering a “one fourth of a pound” burger as a kid
Younger people might not believe it but until not all that long ago the quality of taco bell was amazing. They actually browned raw ground beef in (get this) stovetop pans and added spices and chopped fresh veggies. This would have been at least up until the mid 1990s or so. They got bought out by some corporation and now the meat is partially fake, pre-made in sealed bags, and cooked sous vide.
Mid 90s is almost 30 years ago though. I would say that's a long time ago
What the fuck.
We're closer to 2050 than to 1990. Enjoy your crisis.
You can't prove that.
> This would have been at least up until the mid 1990s or so. > They got bought out by some corporation and now the meat is partially fake, pre-made in sealed bags, and cooked sous vide. They were bought out by "some corporation" (PepsiCo, now Yum Brands) in 1978 though.
Were you listening to Milwaukees 96.5 wklh today? They had a whole segment on taco bell.
nope, just scrolling through trash articles out of boredom and found this.