Peepitos!

[muckefuck]

Getting to direct a Peepophile to the Peeps Research website for the first time ever? Now that about made my day. If there are any of the marshmallow chicks left at lunchtime, I'll take one to the lounge and microwave it. Apparently, I've never done that before, because according to my co-worker, "Oh, you'd remember it".

I meant to mention here a miscommunication I had recently with one of the hispanohablante cashiers next door. As I was paying, she asked me "¿Cómo fue su día?" Seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to say, but it completely threw me at the time. After all, I was buying lunch and my day was barely half over. In English, I would've asked "How has your day been?" since "How was your day?" is a question I firmly associate with a spouse greeting you as your walk through the door in the evening. So, in my head, I parsed the first half as "¿Cómo fuese..." ("As would have been...") and was at a loss to make sense of the tail of the sentence, so I waited for her to continue it. When she didn't, I reparsed it "¿Cómo fue sudía?" and was asking myself ¿Qué coño es "sudía"? What is it with Mexicans (ella es durangueña) and the present perfect? They seem even more allergic to it than most American English speakers.

Oh, and the smokin' hot one (tapatío, a propósito) I posted about before chatted me up as well yesterday and completely bamboozled me by (I think) asking if I was from France, which I don't think anyone has ever done before. And all I said to him was "No quiero pepino" because the pickles they serve are always too limp, so it's not like he could even have picked up on my European Spanish accent or something. Still, I'm construing it to be some kind of backhanded compliment, since having someone guess you're an American by the way you butcher their native language is never, ever a good thing.

Edit: Well, El Supercutie left me at loose ends again. My own fault--I greeted him with a friendly "Hola, Tapatío, ¿qué hay?" which prompted him to go on about John Fogerty for a bit. Why? I HAVE NO IDEA. Do I look John Fogerty or something? No. I thought he might be playing Chicago or something, but it looks like he kicks off his new tour in Houston and then his next eight dates are in Oz. Clearly, there was some explanation in their that I missed completely. Equally clearly, as if I wasn't already convinced he's 100% straight, well, there you have the crowning 10%. Oh well; it's enough to know that if Herr Speck ever comes along while we're chatting, it will drive him absolutely mad with jealousy.

Comments

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

Do peeps have that hydrogenated corn syrup stuff in? I would like to try them, but I don't like the corn syrup's aftertaste, and it seems to be in all kinds of unexpected american food.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Sadly, just about any sweet made in America does. You'll need to find circumcised Peeps kosher for Passover.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

That corn syrup is also all kinds of bad for you isn't it.

I have a jar of marshmellow fluff that has been open for 6 months in a cupboard, no mould. I've scanned the ingredients and can't figure out why it hasn't gone mouldy yet.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

There seem to be a lot of people out there who will tell you that it's way worse for you than white sugar; Unca Cecil, on the other hand, thinks the two are close enough it makes no nevermind. At the end of the day, eating a whole assload of refined sweeteners is not going to be good for your body regardless of what plant it came from.

Hispanohablantes

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

Here they usually say ¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? If it's a friend ¿Qué pasa tio? When I am in the States, I try to use Peninsular expressions like ¡Venga! ¡Vale!

Carlos

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

For some reason, a lot of Mexican Spanish speakers here seem to prefer ¿Qué pasó? to ¿Qué pasa?. I've no idea why.

I have enough communication problems already (the other day, I threw one of the servers for a loop by asking for fideos, which they all seem to call noodles) that I try to avoid anything too marked as Peninsular, so I almost always replace vale with está bien.