Pupusa (from pipil pupusawa) is the Spanish pronunciation of popotlax, a conjugation of the words in the Nahuatl language; popotl meaning big, stuffed, bulging, and tlaxkalli or tortilla. It is a thick handmade corn tortilla (made using masa de maíz, a corn flour dough used in American cuisine that is filled with one or more of the following ingredients: cheese (usually a fresh cheese very common in certain American countries called quesillo), chicharrón, ayote, refried beans or cheese with loroco. There is also pupusa scrambled with mixed ingredients, such as cheese, beans, chicharrón or bacon.
Origin Nahuat was the language of the Pipils, a pre-Columbian settlement in the central and western part of El Salvador known as the Señorío de Cuzcatlán.
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, was one of the religious who came to America; in one of his texts in 1570, he tells about the existence of a cooked dough meal, which was mixed with meat and beans. On the other hand, a publication of the National Museum of Anthropology Dr. David J. Guzmán affirms that pupusas were a fundamental part of the diet of pre-Columbian settlements in Ahuachapán, presumably Quichés who had migrated from Guatemala. At the beginning of the 19th century, Santiago I. Barberena on page 231 of his book "Quicheismo de folclore americano".
History
Pupusas are the most widespread typical food in El Salvador probably because of the tradition instituted from generation to generation. Although its origin is not known for certain, anthropological studies indicate that it was born in Central American territories, especially in western El Salvador.
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Within the framework of the CAFTA negotiations, Honduran claims regarding the geographical origin of pupusas came to light, since in that country it is also a privileged dish, although not so popular.
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The origin of the conflict, which involved more public opinion than the government, was the negotiation of products of origin; if El Salvador patented pupusas, it would be the only country that could export this product free of tariffs to the United States, which would give it a competitive advantage over the rest of the contracting countries of the agreement.
Ingredients
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Dough: There are two types of dough, corn and rice. Rice pupusas originated in Olocuilta, and became popular in the 1980s when the highway leading to El Salvador's International Airport was built. Also popular in Nahuizalco are pupusas made of yucca dough.
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Fillings: originally, in the 1930s-40s, they were filled with beans or cheese, and later, with chicharrón. Even so, pupusas are a recipe in constant change; the technique has been innovated and the ingredients have diversified. Common fillings today are: loroco flower, cochinito, or pitos, chipilín leaves or hierba mora, all of them aromatic plants from El Salvador, spinach, ayote, which is a variety of squash, ham, chicken or beef, fish, shrimp, mushrooms, garlic, jalapeño peppers, or even chorizo, pepperoni or salami. The fillings also depend on the region, as for example pupusa stuffed with papelillo is typical of the Oriente.
Pupusa is one of the symbols of Salvadoran culinary identity. It is consumed by all social classes throughout the country for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Going to a pupusería for dinner is a social act in this country. Each pupusa has an approximate nutritional value of 350 calories, so a couple of them constitute a meal time for an average person. In this sense, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers that it is an essential part of the basic Salvadoran diet, being an adequate means of food because of its low cost. In 2004, within the framework of the "International Year of Rice", pupusas were recognized worldwide as a popular food.
On the other hand, considering that El Salvador is one of the Latin American countries that contributes most immigrants to the United States, it is logical to find pupusas outside the national borders. Immigrants take the dish as part of the effort to maintain the culture even outside the country, which is why they continue to prepare and consume pupusas.
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I feel far more shame for my deep infatuation with the revolutionary spirit of French culture than for my sexuality, I have to admit
he's still going! man, shout out to this guy. he just doesn't give up
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God damn r*ddit libs are the absolute worst. Got into an argument with some guy who said the Iraq invasion was justified because of 9/11. Pointed out that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and he called me a Russian bot.
The way they all aligned to blame Russia for everything Trump did, including getting elected, was breathtaking and still strikes me as uncanny and unbelievable. How could anyone doubt that 51% of Americans are just dumb and mean enough to vote for Donald Trump? But then these people voted for Obama twice, and rehabilitated Bush, and tried to elect Clinton, so there truly is not consensus reality to which they are grounded.
Reminds me of when my friend said China should give HK and Taiwan self-determination--and I quote--"Like how the US did when we gave Iraq a president".
:us-foreign-policy: this emoji being called "us foreign policy" is giving other countries far too much credit
Holy shit i might actually get a chance to wrestle in japan
True. I have a friend whos done the indies there and sent some of my footage to some promoters. One already said yes.
I had a deathmatch not too long ago, and a promoter got interested. I'm gonna try out some catch wrestling before i even try to leave the border.
I have learned some new things today because of you, ha. Thank you!
I hope that promoter stays interested! Always great to see comrades excelling. Would catch wrestling keep you on that promoter's radar?
I have a black belt in taekwondo, but that doesnt help with the grappling aspect of pro wrestling. I've been training with a friend of mine since i was a backyarder, but hes gone way beyond my training. He's lucha, and had mostly shown me how to be a good base, and how to throw people around. Folk wrestling and catch as catch can is a good way for me to fill in blind spots before i try doing anything outside of my local promotions.
Why do people from my job expect me to do things? Why cant I just vibe and collect a paycheck?
We could do it. It's not that fucking hard. We could network the entire economy in real time, run in through a central planning office, and make shit people actually use in the numbers that are actually needed, then spend the rest of the time fucking (asexuals can do something else) and eating hash (Straight edge kids can do something else).
I can't stand workplace culture. Anywhere I go, I have to go to extreme lengths not to participate. I'm thinking about how I'll prevent this in my next job. Maybe by pretending I have a kid or something.
We say here in Argentina that you can leave the country for a week and everything has changed, but you can leave the country for ten years and everything stays the same. The shadow that constantly looms over us is back, the International Monetary Fund gave us a gigantic loan of about 57 billion dollars in 2018, which only added massive problems to an already bloated national debt, and now it's time to pay it back. The loan was taken during the presidency of Mauricio Macri, a neolib allied with the United States and we consider it to be completely illegal, it was done before election year, received little to no coverage (it constituted the largest loan taken by the country) and it was done on shady grounds, without any public approval and violating the IMF's own regulations. The money that we "received" never really arrived, it wasn't used to invest in roads, bridges, airports, power infrastructure or anything like that, as soon as it came it fled the country, we never saw a single penny. Now the IMF is asking for us to pay back, and it couldn't come at a worse time.
The lower chamber, Congress, right now is about to approve the deal we made with the IMF to pay the loan back. We're about to give the country to them again, like we did in the 90s and when it later ended up exploding in 2001 with a bloodshed, a crisis that left a country broken and thousands upon thousands without a future, without their savings, without properties.. the crisis that kept claiming victims years after as many took their lives because their mere existence was destroyed under the weight of foreign capital. The only real opposition are the leftists, the Trots to be exact, and some elements of the more progressive "center-left" oficialists, but that's it. The government is deeply divided and willing to give up the future of this failure of a country back to the IMF. Despite our best intentions and efforts, we on the Left can't do much.. everything is going to crumble yet again and we once again have to pay the price. There was a riot today in front of Congress between several social organizations from the aforementioned groups and the ever disgusting police; stones, tear gas, batons, shields.. you name it... in a last desperate effort to stop the plan that has been in motion for months now, a simple last shout that will result in nothing. The genuine and collective pain of a seizable sector of this population made an attempt to make themselves heard, but we were demonized by the media allied to the Big Capital.
Simply put: we're completely unable to pay back the loan, the economy took a massive hit during COVID and the debt is of titanic proportions. So you know what happens when you can't pay the IMF in cash, right? they ask for resources, they ask for new and flexible laws that would benefit them... old people will be deprived of their retirement benefits (whatever they might be now) and slowly die, all social safety nets will be erased.. all resouces will go to the payment of that illegal and cursed debt. The material conditions of those most affected by this will continue to deteriorate, poverty will rise, crime will rise, more people on the streets, more people begging for a crumb of bread, wages wont keep up with inflation (they already fail, and miserably so) and the country will be once again very vulnerable to a right wing takeover, a takeover that is slowly but surely starting to materialize.
Once again, we become slaves of Global Capitalism. When will this finally end?
Here's a good read on the topic:
https://nacla.org/imf-debt-argentina
Doing my monthly Majority Report check in -
Their guest just said everyone complaining about gas prices are being babies and need to deal with it. She also suggested we use this as an opportunity to buy electric vehicles
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Got a middle aged coworker that is constantly pulling up his daughter's insta at work, very weird behavior. He's very proud of her being good at sports and has pics of her playing lacross hung up which is cute but Idk seems like an odd thing to do u know
If you squint, every white guy you see could actually be Jerma
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Her family are landlords and she's a massive lib :sadness:
