HOT Summer Nights

On my mothers side we come from Veracruz, Orizaba to be exact and that is tierra caliente (hot land), one of my uncles lived in the Puerto we would have breakfast and some times dinner at the Café de la Parroquia kitty-corner from the Zocalo across from the church, if you go there that is a must, anyway all people in the port when it is hot drink coffee with a little salt instead of sugar, the neat thing in this place are the "café con leche" (coffee with milk) they bring a tall glass and a spoon, you tap the glass with the spoon, as loud as you can with out braking the glass that place is noisy, pretty soon a waiter shows up with two big coffee pots one with hot coffee and the other one with hot milk pouring from way up there with out splashing any, good stuff and on Sundays after dinner one takes a stroll to the Zocalo to hear the band play on the Palacio Municipal's balcony, and if you are lucky there will be a zapateado dance by the local dance troupe, people in Veracruz are known as Jarochos all others that are not Jarochos are Chilangos.

Hey Talleyho, pretty soon you guys will be chilangos.

By the way the word gringo started when the Mexican American war took place many moons ago, the US soldiers were dressed in green uniforms and the Mexicans would shout "green go home" and pretty soon just "green-go" was left, in Spanish it is written "gringo" and now you know where the word originated from today all foreigners are called gringo.

Chilangos y Gringos hasta la vista!

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