So last Sunday it was a beautiful night and we had worked really hard. The weather was just perfect. Warm with a nice breeze that made it feel like we were in Hawaii. It was too nice to eat in so we decided to go to the Mexican restaurant.
Mezcal's is the Mexican joint down the end of Court St. It has lots of dishes on the Menu and gives so some good basic Mexican food with lots of things to choose from not just the usual crap. The carne asada is particularly good as are the fajitas.
One of the best things about the place is the bar. One of the owners works behind the bar and he pours with a heavy hand. You don't get stinted. You see he is in competition with a couple of fancy hipster places so he needs to attract people with cheap good food and solid drinks. They do great.
They also have a great garden in the back. They built up this patio that is higher up than most gardens as it is equivalent to the second floor of the brownstone. You walk up and are in this enclosed patio where the breeze is just rocking. Sunday nights are great nights to go out as most people stay in and there are definitely no kids. So we had a wonderful time.
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Cheap good food. Is there such a thing?
Even the crappy food's expensive these days.
Great summer, though, huh? Not too hot.
Mexican food in Brooklyn?? PR, DR, certainly, but are there many Mexicans in NYC? There weren't shit 30 years ago.
Dude. New York runs on Mexicans. Every pizzeria, restaurant and landscaping company runs on the sweat of illegal Mexicans.
Now they might come from Guatemala or El Salvador or Peru but they are still Mexicans to me.
If the outdoor garden is raised up to second floor level is the restaurant extended underneath it or have they done something else with that space? Storage? Wine cellar? Just curious for some reason I can't explain.
Storage. They keep the cats that they make the taco with in little cages.
Cat can be quite tasty. A Chinese joint I frequented for years up here in Ithaca was closed down for their chicken substitution by way of cat. If the customers are happy (I sure was) what business is it of the health department? Damn shame.
And I guess all those slant eyes are Chinamen. My sister worked @ the very elitist, Choate Rosemary Hall in Ct. She had a free residence on campus and free meals in the dining hall. My mom was here nanny. She would take her 2 young granddaughters all around the campus, dining hall, etc. My mom would use many non pc words like "Chinamen"[even if was a woman], "PR" for any Latino, etc. My sister used to cringe a lot. You would make her really cringe.
"Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude. "Asian-American," if you please.
I just go "Hey Hop Sing what's up with my order?"
Does that still play? How old are these people?
blake, that's exactly what my sister would say to my mom. My mom would reply, "Oh, yeah..sorry" and then call them Chinamen the next time. Incorrigible. I don't think it was on purpose or passive aggressive. It's just tough retraining your brain after 70 years. I would tell my sister, "At least mom doesn't call them, Japs."
Nick--
Like most things I say, that's a quote from The Big Lebowski.
The Dude: Walter, what is the point? Look, we all know who is at fault here, what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: Huh? No, what the fuck are you... I'm not... We're talking about unchecked aggression here, dude.
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
The Dude: My rug.
Walter Sobchak: Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
The Dude: Walter, the Chinaman who peed on my rug, I can't go give him a bill, so what the fuck are you talking about?
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you talking about? The Chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
The Dude: Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here. This is a guy...
Walter Sobchak: What the fuck are you...?
The Dude: Walter, he peed on my rug!
Donny: He peed on the Dude's rug.
Walter Sobchak: Donny you're out of your element! Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue here!
If they are from Guatamala, they are not your Mexicans, they are Mayan.
Dude. New York runs on Mexicans. Every pizzeria, restaurant and landscaping company runs on the sweat of illegal Mexicans.
I watched an episode of Tony Bourdain's show in which he was all liberal weepy about illegal immigration into the US. He rode and ATV along the border, interviewed the families of illegals he knew, yadda, yadda, yadda.
The money moment was at the end of the show, when, back in Les Halles in NYC, he looked into the camera and explained that the best French chefs in NYC were Mexicans. And the best Italian, and the best, steak joint, and......you get the rest of the picture.
Excellent workers, no doubt. Being paid below market rate, equally no doubt. Tony Bourdain is not some poor schlub trying to make ends meet.
blake: Did you write the screenplay for "The Big Lebowski"? You should have, dude.
Blake - Your comment pulls the topic together, man.
I have zero problem with hard working Mexican workers. I have a problem with a fucked up immigration plan that seems to punish the best and brightest and encourages this quasi legal crap. Then you have Democrats trying to milk it for votes, Republicans running around like pussies, and no one willing to discuss the real losers to illegal immigration.
Black and poor white Americans looking for a job. Hispanics jump right over them, just like Asians did...
Dudes.
I LIVED the Big Lebowski.
That's life in L.A.
I always love liberals. They exploit workers by paying a below market wage, then pat themselves on the back for caring about the "poor" and the "workers"
Big Business and liberals in bed together on that issue. WSJ and NYT try to outdo each other on who loves illegals more.
Troop, if you ever come to San Diego, I will entertain you to real mexican food. Not the stuff you call mexican, in your neck of the woods. It's like asking for chinese in the middle of Omaha.
Trooper York said...
I just go "Hey Hop Sing what's up with my order?"
And he would reply, "Calgon took it away..."
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