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dirty_superman February 17 2009, 03:25:53 UTC

OH MY GOD I NEED TO GO FIND THAT in the winter abuelita was my special special treat because it would just take so long! i remember being really really little and spending hours trying to cut the chocolate myself so i could have some, mmm. also, what's chido? i've never heard it.

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 04:14:41 UTC

i know, right! and cos you're little your mom won't let you use the sharp knives and you're trying to saw away at a piece of Abuelita chocolate with a fucking butter knife, hating life and your weak, 6 year old arms! gives new meaning to "break me off a piece, Abuelita!" i found this at the Pavilions on Melrose and Vine in Hollywood.

and chido is slang from the 80's that was used to mean cool or awesome. it sounds like Cheeto but with a d.

dirty_superman February 17 2009, 04:16:18 UTC

YES EXACTLY oh god, i love the commonality of this latin experience, and that's a cool word, i've never heard it. probably because i'm not mexican?

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 04:32:45 UTC

oh no? are you poricua?

dirty_superman February 17 2009, 04:33:27 UTC

yes!

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 04:35:05 UTC

ahh, then there ya go. chido was mexican slang back in the day.
i love me some platanitos!

dirty_superman February 17 2009, 04:35:57 UTC

maduros or tostones?

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 04:37:12 UTC

maduros!

dirty_superman February 17 2009, 04:38:31 UTC

oh, no way man. i like mine green, fried with lots of garlic.

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 04:41:41 UTC

i guess i like them more cuban style with morros y cristianos or just by themselves.

cairaguas February 17 2009, 08:14:52 UTC

and you're trying to saw away at a piece of Abuelita chocolate with a fucking butter knife, hating life and your weak, 6 year old arms!

OMG, NOSTALGIA. This is true. True, true, so true.

And then a lot of times I wouldn't even get to make the hot chocolate. I'd just end up eating the dust that came from sawing the piece because actually making the chocolate was so much work. Damn, those barras were rock solid pieces of unreachable treasure sometimes. Curses!

angelly_bean February 17 2009, 16:17:53 UTC

did you ever try to bite the barras too? i did, and the choco was so bitter.

cairaguas February 20 2009, 03:07:07 UTC

Yes, I did. I would always end up doing that because my mom was too busy to make me hot chocolate.

Although, now that I think about it, a lot of times I didn't ask her. I just assumed she was busy and tired, and I didn't want to bother her. I grew up on the border between poor and middle class, so I got used to not asking for things that weren't essential. Much more than I needed to be, I think. It's a bad habit! :-P

angelly_bean February 20 2009, 05:38:20 UTC

i hear you! i think a lot of us grew up that way and we have this tendency to "suck it up" and not ask for anything. it took me along time to ask for and accept help, and to just ask for things in general. it's almost as if i didn't want to impose!

cairaguas February 20 2009, 08:20:45 UTC

it's almost as if i didn't want to impose!Yeah, yeah, exactly ( ... )

angelly_bean February 21 2009, 19:07:39 UTC

wow, that's a great story! i really don't like how sometimes latinos can take such a defeatist attitude towards things. i know i got that from my mom, the whole "we probably can't afford it, so why bother looking into it." we try to do everything ourselves and sometimes forget that there are such things as assistance out there ( ... )

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