Spanish TV/ American TV: Helps shape the ladies?

[InnocentVixen]

My wife KNOWS what I like to eat, although she'll sometimes ask me what I do want.

Of course, she has probably asked enough times already but she still asks in case you are craving something specifically, makes total sense to me

Asian women too. I guess AW never got that memo.

Hahaha for all I know it might be all over the world except in the US

[robert angel]

Ray,

Man--you're right--old habits die hard in Filipinas. I basically told my wife that I wasn't going to take her out to restaurants anymore and watch the waiters eye brows raise up when she'd order a nice cut of steak, emphatically saying "WELL DONE, PLEASE".

I am not going to pay $20++ for a nice steak dinner that she wants cooked until it's carbonized!

The final straw was when she tried the outer, better cooked edge, of some prime rib that I ordered and liked how tasty and tender it was.

The next time out, she wanted to order a plank of prime rib, WELL done. No mas. I even have told her I won't buy beef at all, if she wants everything cooked till it's basically overdone and tough.

I think part it goes back to her years in Davao City, where, like most RP cities, they have tons of great smelling and usually great tasting, street food for cheaper than they could make themselves.

Too many cases of eating under cooked street food, with hepatitis or parasitic outbreaks, just put a mortal fear into a lot of them, I guess.

She's still leery about any pink spots in pork or chicken and I can see the reasoning with chicken, but we've gotten to the point where even a nice pork chop doesn't have to be truly 'well done' to the point where it's not juicy and tender.

As to marinating ribeyes--man--we marinate everything but fruit!

Come to think of it, if she drank more than a couple ounces of wine or beer at any given time, I'd show her how we did in effect, 'marinate' fruit when I was in Catholic Boarding school!

We'd get a bucket, fill it with apple cider and take any raisins, apples--scraps of whatever we could get, and put a stocking over it until it fermented and we had our own 'prison hooch'.

Of course, someone always wants to spoil the party, and old alcoholic Father Delaney would usually suddenly 'confiscate' our hooch, right when it was at the height of perfection -- with a kick and smell strong enough to knock a buzzard off a garbage truck. I guess the offeratory wine just wasn't enough for Father...

Anyways--does your wife really, really go light on beer and wine--alcohol in general? My wife does to the point where it bugs me a bit and I don't even drink.

I think it was last Christmas or New Years, that we were at some holiday party and she drank some wine that she just thought was heavenly.

Problem is that nobody remembers what the name of it was. So she still talks about it time and time again--as if she'd actually drink more than two ounces, and I go out and buy, reds, whites, Zinfandel's, sangria's, champagne, grape juice--you name it. Even when she likes a wine or beer she'll only drink a couple ounces. In the close to nine years I've known her, she's drank a whole 12 ounce beer ONCE. San Miguel, naturally.

I think I know what 'wine' she'd probably like. Remember the old TV series "Sanford and Son"? If so, you probably remember Fred Sanford liked to 'blend' cheap champagne and that old wino favorite--sweet "Ripple" brand wine--making 'Champipple' as he called it.

Somehow, I think most Filipinos would fancy that, along with a little Barry Manilow music to add some extra 'atmosphere'...

Well, at least I have a 19 y/o son who slowly but surely 'steals' the beer and wine so it doesn't pile up.

My wife likes to have some beer and wine on hand for 'company' however.

"Company"?? That's why I got a Mossberg Model 500 short barrel, pistol grip, "Street Sweeper" 12 gauge shot gun! You get those Jehovah Witnesses in your neighborhood too? They come on my doorstep bright and early Saturday mornings, when I'm still snoring loud enough that the windows vibrate.

Once, I asked the damn missionaries 'Why do you ALWAYS have to come early Saturday mornings??"" They smiled sweetly and replied "Because that's when you're home". Errr--ask a stupid question--get a....Hell--even the Black and Whites--those Mormon boys on their bicycles, come at a better hour. Regardless, I usually tell em to scram, that "I'm late for a devil worship meeting" or some such. But the ratcheting sound of that Mossberg loading up, really makes em remember that 'old time religion' all right, hehehe...

Back to the wine--my wife has this ridiculous, ongoing desire to put a wine rack in the kitchen. In our small house, given how little drinking and entertaining we do--that makes about as much sense as a bull having his own tits.

I think maybe she saw one at the Doctor's office in some home beeyoutifull magazine, or some 'Style' TV show, and thought it looked really swell. No dice.

I cave in on that one and next thing you know, she'll want one of those  genuwine crystal glass cheese plates, with the fancy cut glass on top for the block of Velveeta cheese! A man's got to stand up sometime--no way!

Too freakin 'french' for MY tastes...

BTW--Does your wife think that vitamins can cure or prevent almost anything, but have to be near dead to take an aspirin or as they say  'drink' any real tablet or pill medicine?

[Ray]

Remember the old TV series "Sanford and Son"? If so, you probably remember Fred Sanford liked to 'blend' cheap champagne and that old wino favorite--sweet "Ripple" brand wine--making 'Champipple' as he called it.

Robert,

I thought the recipe for Champipple was a bottle of Ripple and a bottle of 7-Up…

Yes. My wife drinks beer and wine…sort of. For “wine”, she loves that sweet crap Wild Wines, which we get on sale at CVS Pharmacy at 2 bottles for $5. She drinks beer mixed 50-50 with coke… “beer-coke” as she calls it…tastes like root beer. She also likes strawberry or mango margaritas.

I’m not sure why 99% of Filipinas prefer steak (and most all meat) well done, but most Filipino men I know like it bloody rare. However, all Filipinos seem to like fish overcooked by about 45 minutes beyond well done. If you eat pink or red pork in the PI, I think there’s a good chance you will get trichinosis.

As for meds, I have never heard the term “drink pills”. She does take vitamin supplements and always sends those big Costco bottles in the balikbayan boxes, but she also frequently uses Ibuprofen & Tylenol.

Jehovah Witnesses are like flies…they eat shyt and bother people… 

Ray

 

[Jeff S]

Yikes, Ray. Anything I can't stand is overcooked anything. We eat most of our seafood raw and our steaks rare.

Fortunately my wife has the same taste in drinks as I, good, full bodied red wines and single malt scotch.

[Dave H]

It is a good thing that I like jerky! If meat is not burnt and as dried up as a piece of leather it is not cooked to Filipinas.  I have seen my wife buy lechon manok (roasted chicken) or barbecue and cook it more once she brought it home. It is also common in the Philippines for Filipinas to buy food at a carinderia and  "recook" it (not reheat). My wife says it is because meat and food handling is not very sanitary in the Philippines. They cook it well to kill bacteria and germs from the flies. Flies are everywhere! Refrigeration is not widely practiced here. All of the meat trucks that I have seen are not refrigerated. The outdoor meat markets... Best to buy meat right after they kill it!  

Dave

carinderia


The first time I have seen someone wearing gloves.


Here is a raw meat shoe for you guys.

[Dave H]

Meat..not just for eating anymore! Things you can make with meat.





Meat Pirate Ship

[Dave H]

She drinks beer mixed 50-50 with coke… “beer-coke” as she calls it…tastes like root beer.

Ray

Hey Ray,

Interesting!  I think I will go downstairs and drink a Mug or Dad's Root Beer. When I do get out (I don't get out much), I see a lot of Filipinas drinking Gilbey's Gin and lime juice. They put the lime juice bottle upside down on top of the gin. That stuff smells like Vitalis Hair Tonic that I used to wear back in the 50's and 60's (before the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan). 

Dave

[robert angel]

Geeze Dave--I saw something on-line today about how chicken's now acceptable in the USA as a 'breakfast food'--with a lot of places serving mini chicken bisquits and I know a lot of Asians don't think twice about fish for breakfast, but you just broadened the uses and categories for beef considerably!!

Your wife's a nurse, Dave--is she real reluctant to take medicine too?

I think my wife's more reluctant that most Filipinas. She'll have an awful headache occasionally (but never at bed time though) and I can tell she's not feeling well and I'll say "Honey--we have buffered aspirin, naproxen (her parents love how effective naproxen is), ibuprofen, Tylenol, etc---do US both a favor and take SOMETHING!

OK--after I'VE finally got a headache myself from her putting her's off, she'll take ONE tablet, even after, for the 99th time, I've read out loud "for persons over twelve years of age, take TWO"

Is the term 'drink' your medicine, even applied to pills and tablets common over there?

We are making progress dragging her into modern western medicine, beyond vitamins, but even with vitamins--she feels much better sending them back home than taking them herself!

Any pill larger than an aspirin is seen as too big too swallow. I had to search far and wide for small enough vitamin C tablets, although I must say that those 'Ester C' football shaped vitamins, I got were probably orginally intended for horse--they're really big.

The best thing about her having her tonsils taken out was all the codeine medicine they gave her that she hardly ever touched. Man--I tell you--I wasn't hurting anywhere for a couple months!

Oh--Ray--I may follow your lead there--I am tired of buying wine she doesn't drink--I paid $12 for a bottle of Red Diamond, from California that was highly recommended--She had two sips.

I am buying  her Mogen David's 'MD 2020' --lovingly known as  'Mad Dog', 'Thunderbird', 'Night Train' and the strongest and most deceptively sweet of them all, weighing in at over 40 proof--'Wild Irish Rose'--which I think is made by Manechevitz
 Oye vey--she'll REALLY sleep well then!

PS--Ray--You maybe right on where you say you think that Fred Sanford's favorite beverage--'Champipple" was 7 up and Ripple and not Champagne and Ripple--but I'll betchya Dave knows if any of us do! You guys remember sucking down 'Boones Farm' cheap wine?

[thekfc]

Robert, I have a solution for you about the wine - just get her chocolate wine. 

Ahya & some of her family members who do not drink sure did enjoy the Godiva Liqueurs. They drank until they had "crazy legs". 

[Jedironin]

^ Have you tried Bailey's Irish Creme? A shot "or so" in a cup of hot chocolate and you'll probably sleep pretty well. 

Do you think she'd like Capt. Morgan's Spiced Rum?  Just a thought...

[robert angel]

Re:
>>Have you tried Bailey's Irish Creme? A shot "or so" in a cup of hot chocolate and you'll probably sleep pretty well<<

She sleeps like a baby almost every night. Once in a blue moon, we'll take a little melatonin, a natural product that our bodies used to make more of in response to natural sunlight exposure.

it's cheap, but washes out of the blood stream in about five hours, but you get that deep REM sleep and you tend to dream like crazy.

 A lot of people, me included, occasionally use pure Diphenhydramine in a 50 mg dose--that's the stuff in Benedryl and Tylenol PM and it's not quite as healthy as melatonin over the long run.

When all else fails--a Soma tablet, (carisprodal) along with a 10 mg valium, and you'll sleep through an earth quake, but still get up if you have to pee.

Wifey is pretty much "Mrs. Natural' and she's real leery of more than a  a few sips  of alcohol and it has to be pretty damn stealthy to get into her system, although chocolate liquor might be the charm. I bet it'd be funny whipping out a couple bottles of that with the family back in the RP if we get there this summer. Definitely have to video that!

One thing my wife will actually drink that I forgot--like many Filipinas, is a margarita--with the salt--they love the restaurant Red Lobster's margaritas. But never more than one and she asks for the liquor on the side and might not finish it all.

I remember back in college, we'd buy 190 proof "Ever Clear" brand grain alcohol--it looks like water--but it's 'water' that's 95% PURE alcohol boys, and when you mix it up with pineapple juice and sweet coconut cream,  you've got one creeper, sneaky ass drink. I think many a college coed lost something or the other, thinking 'hmm--this doesn't taste TOO strong"--but I'd never try and put one over like that on my wife---although it might be intersting to see her drunk just ONCE!

[Bill_McC]

Don't sneak her any Everclear. As nice as it may be to see her a little drunk just once, I'm thinking that the head ache, bad stomach, and nasty hangover in general would get you into really deep trouble. Is it worth the risk? Thats the real question.   


Bill

[robert angel]

Nah, Bill--I NEVER would--and I seriously mean NEVER would do that. Even with the idea of the chocolate liquor, I would tell all involved that it was a serious alcoholic beverage before hand. Ever Clear could kill--alcohol poisoning is very real....

[whitey]

I think I know what 'wine' she'd probably like. Remember the old TV series "Sanford and Son"? If so, you probably remember Fred Sanford liked to 'blend' cheap champagne and that old wino favorite--sweet "Ripple" brand wine--making 'Champipple' as he called it.

Somehow, I think most Filipinos would fancy that, along with a little Barry Manilow music to add some extra 'atmosphere'...

Great post Rob ... thanks for the laugh.  "Oh Mandyyyy ...."   

[robert angel]

Heya Whitey,


RE:
>>Quote from: robert angel on October 07, 2010, 08:21:34 PM
I think I know what 'wine' she'd probably like. Remember the old TV series "Sanford and Son"? If so, you probably remember Fred Sanford liked to 'blend' cheap champagne and that old wino favorite--sweet "Ripple" brand wine--making 'Champipple' as he called it.

Somehow, I think most Filipinos would fancy that, along with a little Barry Manilow music to add some extra 'atmosphere'...

Great post Rob ... thanks for the laugh.  "Oh Mandyyyy ...." <<  

Thanks for the note--I imagine there aren't many, if any minors on here, but sometimes maybe it's easy to  have more 'read' into what we --or more precisely 'me' or I, write. Sometimes I get on a roll and it leave things to the reader, each of whom can interpret it however. It's too long anyway, I could only imagine if I tried to further explain, adding caveats along the way.

I just don't want anyone to think I condone excessive drinking, illegal drug use or some such activity. And believe me, my wife's parents and pretty much the entire family are university graduates, with a lot of common sense--which don't always go together.

I couldn't just 'whip out' a couple bottles of chocolate liquor and watch them drink it and me take movies of them, as if they're some kind of simpletons. They're too smart for that and I love and respect them too much to even really think about that, if it was possible.

Anyway Whitey, hope your immigration affairs, with your lovely fiance are coming along. Any plans on getting back to South America anytime soon? I just got off the phone with my parents up in Detroit--they can see Ontario from their apartment and they commented how the fall colors are really starting to show--is it getting cooler? I miss the crisp, colorful fall days, but not the cold, snow and ice. It'd be a nice break to head south, come a couple months down the line, even for us, down here in Georgia.

[thekfc]

I just don't want anyone to think I condone excessive drinking, illegal drug use or some such activity..............

I couldn't just 'whip out' a couple bottles of chocolate liquor and watch them drink it and me take movies of them, as if they're some kind of simpletons. They're too smart for that and I love and respect them too much to even really think about that, if it was possible.

Anyone who have read your posts knows better. There are times when we are serious as well as times when we kid around - I think (hope) the readers know the difference.  

Hey, why are you talking about making movies - are u now becoming a director?  

Also talking about Chocolate liquor, do you know that it contains 17% Alcohol ( 34 proof) - ouch  

Talking about Barry Manilow, I will also throw in Tom Jones:
I say the doctor's last week  - he said that I had Tom Jones Syndrome
I asked him if it was common - he said, "It's not unusual."  

[whitey]

Heya Whitey,

I just don't want anyone to think I condone excessive drinking, illegal drug use or some such activity. And believe me, my wife's parents and pretty much the entire family are university graduates, with a lot of common sense--which don't always go together.

No worries Rob ... never thought that for a moment ... I'm sure nobody else did either.

Nazly's pretty much a teetotaler too like your wife ... she doesn't like beer but will occasionally have a coctail if we go out ... she likes the fruity stuff like daiquiris.  We also had some AMAZING mojitos in Cartagena on our honeymoon.  Better than the supposed birthplace of the mojito in the Hemmingway hangout La Bodeguita del Medio in Havana.

Anyway Whitey, hope your immigration affairs, with your lovely fiance are coming along. Any plans on getting back to South America anytime soon? I just got off the phone with my parents up in Detroit--they can see Ontario from their apartment and they commented how the fall colors are really starting to show--is it getting cooler? I miss the crisp, colorful fall days, but not the cold, snow and ice. It'd be a nice break to head south, come a couple months down the line, even for us, down here in Georgia.

I submitted the visa papers about 3 weeks ago ... haven't heard anything yet ... at this point it's a waiting game.  I'm going to Barranquilla at the end of the month for a week.  Nazly will be working, but she has a long weekend and two hour lunches, so we'll still see plenty of each other.

Turns out it will be a bit of a gringo invasion that week ... two other guys I know from another forum who both have girlfriends in Barranquilla (one lives only 3 streets away from my wife) will be there at the same time!

I'm just about 2 hours away from your folks in Detroit and yes, the colours are starting to show nicely here now.  I took this pic in the park this afternoon.  It was an amazing day, 19 degrees celcius, and I took advantage of it by riding my bike in the park, studying some Spanish on the grass, and posting some pictures in Facebook for my angel in Barranquilla.

[Jedironin]

^ That's a terrific picture! Good Luck with the paperwork! 

[fathertime]

I'm just about 2 hours away from your folks in Detroit and yes, the colours are starting to show nicely here now.  I took this pic in the park this afternoon.  It was an amazing day, 19 degrees celcius, and I took advantage of it by riding my bike in the park, studying some Spanish on the grass, and posting some pictures in Facebook for my angel in Barranquilla.

Hey Whitey!

For some reason your picture is utterly collegiate to me and the imagery of you pedaling a bicycle and curling up on the grass with your Spanish book brings me back 20 years!   

Fathertime!

[Dave H]

Geeze Dave--I saw something on-line today about how chicken's now acceptable in the USA as a 'breakfast food'--with a lot of places serving mini chicken bisquits and I know a lot of Asians don't think twice about fish for breakfast, but you just broadened the uses and categories for beef considerably!!

Hey Rob,

Thanks!  

Your wife's a nurse, Dave--is she real reluctant to take medicine too?

ABSOLUTELY!

I think my wife's more reluctant that most Filipinas. She'll have an awful headache occasionally (but never at bed time though) and I can tell she's not feeling well and I'll say "Honey--we have buffered aspirin, naproxen (her parents love how effective naproxen is), ibuprofen, Tylenol, etc---do US both a favor and take SOMETHING!

OK--after I'VE finally got a headache myself from her putting her's off, she'll take ONE tablet, even after, for the 99th time, I've read out loud "for persons over twelve years of age, take TWO"

You are not alone! If she does finally take medicine, she always under doses herself. When she gave birth in the US, she had an epidural, with a button to self medicate as needed. She used so little, that the nurses kept checking it to see if it was working.

Is the term 'drink' your medicine, even applied to pills and tablets common over there?

I think it is, but my wife uses the word "take." Maybe it is a nurse thing?

PS--Ray--You maybe right on where you say you think that Fred Sanford's favorite beverage--'Champipple" was 7 up and Ripple and not Champagne and Ripple--but I'll betchya Dave knows if any of us do! You guys remember sucking down 'Boones Farm' cheap wine?

Boone's Farm - Strawberry Hill ? I don't know nuttin' about that!   ...or MD20/20 (AKA - Mad Dog), Thunderbird, Wild Irish Rose, Night train...




You "Big Dummies!"  

1. Champipple   (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Champipple)

Champipple was first used as a phrase in one of the early Sanford and Son episodes. It was defined as a drink which was a mixture of ginger ale (_not_ champagne - which is too expensive in the hood) and ripple.




Honest, I was just looking for my keys.

[Dave H]

That's not to say that there are not women in Colombia like my wife who, while in charge of the Itaqui textile plant, was boss over 90 to 120 people most of them men.

Hey UC,

Tell me about it! La Madrina was in charge in Miami for the Medellín Cartel during the 70's and early 80's! Which was very impressive!

Dave

[Dave H]

I'm just about 2 hours away from your folks in Detroit and yes, the colours are starting to show nicely here now.  I took this pic in the park this afternoon.  It was an amazing day, 19 degrees celcius, and I took advantage of it by riding my bike in the park, studying some Spanish on the grass, and posting some pictures in Facebook for my angel in Barranquilla.

Hey Whitey,

You are making me homesick with that picture! 2 hours away from Detroit is a great place to be! That is similar to my old stomping grounds (west of DEE-troit). I am looking for a place there to spend our time between the US and Philippines.

Dave

[Woody]

2 hours away from Detroit is a great place to be!

Agreed. Now, Detroit proper......ugh. I have a lot of family in Chelsea and Ann Arbor area.

[Dave H]

Agreed. Now, Detroit proper......ugh. I have a lot of family in Chelsea and Ann Arbor area.

Me too! Maybe we are related! You look like my nephew. 

Dave

[utopiacowboy]

Hey UC,

Tell me about it! La Madrina was in charge in Miami for the Medellín Cartel during the 70's and early 80's! Which was very impressive!

Dave

All I can say is, I am glad that my wife does not look like her.