Incoming mail fired some shots at our Comment of the Week.
From: Beloved past guest Gustavo Arellano
Subject Line: re Doritos Zapoteco bullshit
"Craig may be the resident Walt Disney amateur historian, but I'm the resident Mexican food professional historian, so I must take extreme offense to his risible retelling of the history of Doritos, which he obviously found by cobbling together different half-fried narratives instead of the definitive one that I broke in my 2012 little-read masterpiece 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.' Fritos did have a restaurant called Casa de Fritos, but Alex Foods ran it, so it wasn't an Alex Foods salesman who suggested workers fry up what became Doritos; it was the Morales family who owned Alex Foods (named after the founder, Alex Morales). Zapotecos have nothing to do with totopos, no matter what Wikipedia may tell Craig, let alone Doritos. How do I know? Because I interviewed the grandson of the founder of Alex Foods, Michael Morales. Hell, the word 'totopos' isn't even Zapotec!
Oh, and this one is for Moynihan, that lover of ethnic humor and immigrant success: For decades, the second and third generation of Morales boys were involved in the Southern California sprint car circuits. The name for their car? The Tamale Wagon, named after how the family first made their fortune. Not a single damn person complained about the name."
I can’t stop laughing at the thought of watching a Biden interview with the close captioning on like in that photo. I just picture some poor schlub frantically trying to type the nonsense coming out of bidens mouth and getting so frustrated he throws the machine out a window.
John Doe of X is a National Treasure. Go see him (w/ or w/o X) before he stops coming to your town. But don’t ask him to play 4th of July—I’ve tried, twice: “That’s Dave Alvin’s song, young man, and I don’t play it after Labor Day.” Second try: “Never before Memorial Day….” Maybe there’s a window I’m missing?
I almost identified the rosé as Mulderbosch (of SA) from the vertical strip, but with the line drawings and no text, I think probably not. The other bottle is far too blurry and indistinct to even guess at.
My favorite Fif Wino moment was when Moynihan bitched about the Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc being too sweet. (He's right!! They literally dump bags of granulated sugar into the tanks that are destined to be bottled for North America.)
Incoming mail fired some shots at our Comment of the Week.
From: Beloved past guest Gustavo Arellano
Subject Line: re Doritos Zapoteco bullshit
"Craig may be the resident Walt Disney amateur historian, but I'm the resident Mexican food professional historian, so I must take extreme offense to his risible retelling of the history of Doritos, which he obviously found by cobbling together different half-fried narratives instead of the definitive one that I broke in my 2012 little-read masterpiece 'Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.' Fritos did have a restaurant called Casa de Fritos, but Alex Foods ran it, so it wasn't an Alex Foods salesman who suggested workers fry up what became Doritos; it was the Morales family who owned Alex Foods (named after the founder, Alex Morales). Zapotecos have nothing to do with totopos, no matter what Wikipedia may tell Craig, let alone Doritos. How do I know? Because I interviewed the grandson of the founder of Alex Foods, Michael Morales. Hell, the word 'totopos' isn't even Zapotec!
Oh, and this one is for Moynihan, that lover of ethnic humor and immigrant success: For decades, the second and third generation of Morales boys were involved in the Southern California sprint car circuits. The name for their car? The Tamale Wagon, named after how the family first made their fortune. Not a single damn person complained about the name."
I can’t stop laughing at the thought of watching a Biden interview with the close captioning on like in that photo. I just picture some poor schlub frantically trying to type the nonsense coming out of bidens mouth and getting so frustrated he throws the machine out a window.
John Doe of X is a National Treasure. Go see him (w/ or w/o X) before he stops coming to your town. But don’t ask him to play 4th of July—I’ve tried, twice: “That’s Dave Alvin’s song, young man, and I don’t play it after Labor Day.” Second try: “Never before Memorial Day….” Maybe there’s a window I’m missing?
I see your Hamms Beer ad and raise you a Rainier Beer ad!
https://youtu.be/l0Vab5kkjH0?si=7mY2vWNv6JWxTfh_
Release the episodes! Please 🙏
Holy moly, you need to calibrate your TV. Also...nice shoes, Kmele.
For the Fif Winos, you need to start posting what you're drinking in these pics.
We can start a list, like the Fifth Column Reading List, but not moribund (pours one out).
I almost identified the rosé as Mulderbosch (of SA) from the vertical strip, but with the line drawings and no text, I think probably not. The other bottle is far too blurry and indistinct to even guess at.
My favorite Fif Wino moment was when Moynihan bitched about the Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc being too sweet. (He's right!! They literally dump bags of granulated sugar into the tanks that are destined to be bottled for North America.)
Yeah, not Mulderbosch, though they use that vertical label, too, as you note (it's even sweeter than the Crawford).
My least favorite wino moment was when beloved repeat guest Tina Nguyen made them drink Skinnygirl wine. They were very polite.
I've never had it but it sounds like a hate-crime.
Same
Trampoline!! Matt understands how to bring joy to the children.
All I see are Ben Afflecks
What happened to never fly coach?
I am the proletarian of this pod.
Great shot of Rainier, looks like seat 19A or so... gotta love those clear day flights on Alaska Air into Seattle!
This is lightly-vetted, but according to my calculations you are comfortably in the Top 20. (Moynihan way down at #108)
Guests Count Rank
Andrew Sullivan 29 1
Michael Moore 24 2
David Frum 19 3
Arianna Huffington 19 3
Michael Eric Dyson 18 5
Dan Savage 18 5
Barney Frank 17 7
Paul Begala 17 7
Cornel West 17 7
Michael Steele 17 7
Salman Rushdie 17 7
Bernie Sanders 17 7
D. L. Hughley 16 13
Fareed Zakaria 16 13
Matt Welch 16 13
Chris Matthews 16 13
Matt Taibbi 15 17
Jon Meacham 15 17
Ann Coulter 14 19
P. J. O'Rourke 14 19
S. E. Cupp 14 19
Amy Holmes 14 19
Darrell Issa 12 23
Max Brooks 12 23
Katty Kay 12 23
John Heilemann 12 23
Bret Stephens 12 23
Van Jones 12 23
Jeremy Scahill 12 23
Ian Bremmer 12 23
Rob Reiner 12 23
Matt, please explain France to us!!
REK's cover of 4th of July is worth a listen as well.
I need to add WTFery to my vocabulary.
By Mike Watts thunder, it’s Firehose, not Firehouse!
It's the recent R.E.M. getting in the way....