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  1. 58 minutes ago, happyjillin said:

    There are other language sites that differ. Another word for  sheep is la oveya apparently, and numerous  translation sites use cordera/o or borrego. I would not agree that Cordera/o is a mere marketing term here in Mexico. Soriana ,Walmart,Costco and any butcher I have talked to here use cordero/a. There is a splendid taco stand in the southbound lane near the airport that serves only taco de cordero  to die for. As to the age of alleged young real lamb around here. I would suggest that yearling is the norm for butchering in this area,so hence the toughness. I used to get frozen loin chops from a well known butcher until twice they were tough so no mas. Surprisingly his shank is/was not. As I mentioned. I purchased half domestic lambs in alberta and from time to time portion cut Canadian and New Zealand lamb from Safeway and Superstore and none of it was tough.

    The ewe is the oveja.  If you're the black sheep of the family, you're the oveja negra--whether you're a man or a woman, there is no masculine form of oveja.

    There's also no feminine form of cordero.  Cordera does not exist.

  2. 1 hour ago, happyjillin said:

    I have never in my entire life confused beef with lamb. I  am completely familiar with every kind of meat including a lot of wild game like bear,moose,elk deer, antelope and 3 different kinds of rabbit and then there's the wild birds. And in Mexico lamb is called cordero like it says on the package in my OP in case you didn't notice. Yes one can cook anything the way one wants too but the point I was making was that real lamb is very tender and doesn't require the kind of cooking that requires the use of crock pots to make it so. All muscle is in fact the meat that one eats not the tendons. Hind leg of lamb I have done in the oven Moroccan style served with cous cous.

    Happy, in common Mexican parlance, a sheep is a borrego and a lamb is a borreguito.  Just as dichosalocura mentioned several hours ago, upthread.  Cordero is used--as she also mentioned--in marketing parlance, to make it sound more elegant--just as it's marketed in big letters on the package you bought.  Look at this link, if you don't believe dichosa or me.  
    https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=borrego 

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  3. Central Mexico's pomegranate season starts in late July and ends in October or early November.  What you might see in supermarkets now are pomegranates from Chile.  They are labeled with a little sticker giving their place of origin.  Their color and flavor are not the same as the Mexican ones.

  4. 16 hours ago, slainte39 said:

    I see a whole freezer row of Tyson chicken products at the Costco Stores in GDL, and have for years. They are famous for their rotisserie chicken which comes from Tyson. Don´t shop much at Sam´s but have seen Tyson products there also.

    Yes, I see Tyson products of all kinds at Costco.  But what neither you nor I see are the grey, hideous frozen products that Tyson tried to sell in Mexico about 15 years ago and failed.  

  5. 13 minutes ago, bmh said:

    yes and this is why I do not believe th color of the chicken makes any difference..

     

    The color doesn't make any difference in the flavor, but the chickens in Mexico actually taste like chicken, not like what one buys in the USA.

    About 15 years ago, Tyson tried to import frozen chicken parts from the USA to Mexico.  I was in a Walmart and saw two past middle age Mexican women pick up the packages and look at the grey, ugly chicken flesh.  "Qué es esto?" questioned one.  "No sé, se ve horrible."  (What is this?  I don't know, it looks horrible.)  They finally saw that it was chicken parts and threw it back into the cooler.  "Vamos a comprar Bachoco, lo de siempre."  (We'll buy Bachoco, like we always do.)  Turned out that imported Tyson frozen chicken parts were a complete no-go in Mexico and soon disappeared from the markets.

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  6. Here's a link to an article that explains why the chickens we EAT have yellowish skin.  The flesh of a chicken raised to be eaten is also a pinkish color.  The rough skin of the feet absorbs more of the yellow pigment than does the more tender skin of the body.

    The chickens raised for laying eggs don't eat the same chicken feed as the chickens we eat, and they're white-skinned with greyer flesh.  

    http://www.elsitioavicola.com/articles/2658/pigmentacian-en-pollo-de-engorde/

    These are my photos, the whole chicken, feet removed, is ready for making caldo de pollo.  The raw chicken feet are at the Mercado San Juan in Morelia--when you buy chicken feet, ask your butcher to remove the nail-ends of the toes.  And don't say ewwww, chicken feet add tremendous depth of flavor to soup and are frequently served as a Chinese dish.  The third photo is my friend Antony eating dim sum chicken feet.

    Pollo Listo para Caldo.jpg

    Mercado Patas de Pollo.jpg

    Jing Teng Antony and Chicken Foot.jpg

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  7. 1 hour ago, Mainecoons said:

    Magico or not this is totally out of character with the community and has no business in that location.  A really graphic example of anything goes with this government.

    BTW she said nothing about Pueblo Magico.  Her comment points out the obvious destruction of the character of the neighborhood and of Colon street.

     

    Does anyone but me remember the enormous hoo-ha that went up when the national chain Farmacia Guadalajara was built at the corner of the carretera and Encarnación Rosas?  The outrage that ensued when the national chain Walmart was built at the corner of the libramiento?  Those were (as far as I remember) the first two national chains built in Ajijic--well, of course excepting PEMEX, which was originally on the corner across from where Walmart now exists, and is now in several other places in town.  There is currently at least one Farmacia de Similares, and it doesn't seem to have pushed out Farmacia Cristina, or Dr. Polo, or other small farmacias.

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    For quite a few years, an OXXO has been on Pátzcuaro's elegant and lovely main plaza, Plaza don Vasco de Quiroga.  There was enormous outcry against it when it was proposed, of course. City rules require it to have minimal, low-key signage and that the building be painted according to city regulations: rust-red from the sidewalk and up a meter or so, then white above that.  It's barely noticeable--if you ask someone where it is, that person will point it out to you, but it's hard to see it even when you're standing directly in front of it. Can you see it in the photo?  Nope, me either--but it's there, along the side of the square behind the statue of don Vasco.

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    There's another OXXO in the Centro of San Miguel de Allende (on Calle Mesones), smack dab in the highly touristed middle of town.  Another huge flap carried on against it when it was proposed.  But does this detract from the fantasy view of the city?  Not IMHO.

    In the 'village' of Ajijic, where is the abarrotes nearest the site of the new OXXO?  

    Like you guys, I'm not an OXXO fan.  But OXXO is a modern-day fact of life in Mexico, including in the most touristed cities and towns.  Some of those have a fairy-tale image of themselves to preserve.  Others just want the convenience.  You and I can jump up and down till hell freezes over, but OXXO is apparently here to stay.  
     

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  8. 5 hours ago, happyjillin said:

    EDIT:Basic spices are sage,garlic powder,Hys salt ,Lawrys pepper. Then I look at what other spices we have to add to those. My soups are never the same.

    Could you tell us what Hys salt is?  Thanks!

  9. I certainly prefer gas, for both stovetop and oven.  I inherited a Kenmore microwave/convection oven combo.  I've used the microwave occasionally, but I've never used the convection feature.  

    About 15 years ago in Guadalajara, I bought a floor model midrange (jaja, range) MABE stove that I loved until I had to give it up--long story.  LOVED.  The stovetop burners were completely adjustable, from the lowest simmer to the highest boil, and of course were instantly adjustable--because they were gas.  Long ago I purchased extremely heavy-duty MABE parrillas to replace the skinny ones that came with the stove, just because.  The oven held perfectly whatever temperature I required--I used a standard hang-on-the-rack oven thermometer.  I baked biscuits, corn bread, brownies/cookies/cakes, pizza from scratch, you name it, with never a hitch.

    About a year ago, I reluctantly bought (on Facebook Marketplace) another MABE stove, 6 months old, in Mexico City, and schlepped it to Morelia with me--along with the thermometer and those heavy-duty parrillas.  Wonder of wonders, the new one works exactly as well as the old one. 

    MABE rules, IMHO, and not for a whole lot of money.  I think I paid about $6000 pesos for each of mine. I hope I last as long as the new one will.

  10. 9 hours ago, CHILLIN said:

    I was thinking (with experience) Jocotepec community hospital, Hospital General Occidente Guadalajara, have heard Tujamulco, 15 minutes from Chapala, have also heard Chapala Clinic near Soriana. Bad experiences at what used to be called Ajijic Hospital, and a totally screwed up CT scan at Hospital San Antonio. You want to be going to an upper tier hospital with an ICU and 24 hour surgery for anything major.

    If you look up Talujulco de Zuniga on google maps, you will see there are many hospitals there including an IMSS hospital and a hospital of specialists which accepts Seguro Popular. If you read the comments to that one, you will get the names for many local guides who would translate you through the process. There are still many who pay out of pocket, I imagine to skip lineups. A couple prices I picked up were 450 pesos per day for a hospital bed, 16,000 pesos for an uncomplicated caesarian delivery. I know they have chemo and dialyisis

    You'd do better if you looked up Tlajomulco de Zuñiga.

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  11. 10 hours ago, slainte39 said:

    Nieta,  ¿ quieres saber el hospital en Guadalajara en donde se nacio???   

    ¿ Hay mas preguntas de curiosidades ?   LOL

    edit to add....As  I have said many times before, too many members of this board think that only foreigners, or English as first language only, use or follow this board.  There are, believe it or not, many Mexicans who can read, write, and speak English that participate and are lurking about.   :D

     

    Por supuesto qué sí, Slainte.  Lo que dices, y bien dicho que sea, no corresponde a la pregunta que hice.  No encontré nada en lo que ha subido el poster que indica si es extranjero/a o ciudadano/a mexicano/a.  Dijiste que es mexicano/a y te pregunté de cómo sabes.  Cuentas con una bola de cristal?  

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  12. In Morelia, where I live, a recently-opened state-of-the-art hospital has a program one can buy into that provides free medical appointments at the hospital (for checkups and for illnesses), free lab and other testing, free ambulance service if needed from one's home or anywhere else in the area to that hospital, first night free room if you have to be hospitalized, and a long list of other attractive benefits.  Not free prescription meds, though, and if one needs a specialist, one pays, but at a reduced rate. 

    There was no medical exam, no questionnaire about any illnesses either current or prior, no requirement to give a list of meds you take.  Just sign the paper and they give you a membership card. 

    I recently signed up and paid the one-payment annual cost.  How much was it?  2800 pesos.  Yes, 2800 pesos.  

    Some of you should talk with the new San Antonio hospital about doing something similar.

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  13. 1 hour ago, ComputerGuy said:

    If you stick a pin in the reset hole in the back of the modem for 30 or 40 seconds, the original SSID (network name) and password will be reinstated. Takes about 5 minutes for the device to reset itself. Once that is working, then you can consider how to customize it.

    When Telmex installed my internet here in Morelia, the tech warned me about changing the password for the modem.  He said it could potentially cause big problems for the user.  My password is on a label on the front of my modem, not the back, directly under the numbers that identify the B19E modem.  I have to look at it every time I need it, but I wouldn't change it for the world.

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  14. 32 minutes ago, slainte39 said:

      As in any language, it is inflection, facial expression, and body language.                                                                                             

    All of which cannot be deciphered in an email.

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  15. 2 hours ago, Lacoet said:

    Hello, 

    I want to make Calabaza Enmielada (I’m on holiday in AZ) but I can’t find calabaza de Castilla here. Does anybody know which other kind of squash would make a good substitute?

    thanks.

    Get the squash with the hardest shell you can find.  A squash like a pumpkin won't work, the shell is too soft.  TBH, I don't know another squash with a shell as hard as that of the Castilla.  

    Could you substitute camote enmielado on your menu instead?  I know it's not the same, but it's really delicious.

  16. 2 hours ago, RickS said:

    "El Diario Nueva York is the largest and the oldest Spanish-language daily in the United States. Published by ImpreMedia, the paper covers local, national and international news with an emphasis on Latin America, as well as human-interest stories, politics, business and technology, health, entertainment, and sports.

    Wikipedia"

    The article wrongly states that they were driving compact vehicles when they are clearly larger SUV type vehicles.

    No, your quote clearly states that it is a Spanish-language daily IN THE UNITED STATES.  

    I have just this minute found an article in La Jornada, in its section labeled "Estados".  
    https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/estados/2020/01/05/muere-menor-en-ataque-armado-a-familia-en-tamaulipas-5984.html

    And here's another from a newspaper in Reynosa:  https://www.elmanana.com/buscan-a-atacantes-de-familia-estadounidense-mier-ataque-armado-riberena/4996496 

     

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