Need Spanish Interpreter

Well, I was trying to be a nice guy and sent a package of gourmand delights to my friend flybinder, but I didn’t expect him to be lacking in the area of speaking Spanish. You see, I found some things at the Dollar Store that had pretty pictures that looked like they would taste good, but since I don’t speak Spanish either, I just bought it and figured a man so well read and articulate as Paul, would surely be fluent in more languages than English, Hilljack and Shop. I was wrong… again.

Here are some of the delights I sent him, and it’s the items on the left that we have no clue about. If you have an idea of what they are, please let Paul know if he can eat them or it they must be used to disinfect the floor where the plumbing fixtures sit.

Oh. Apparently the domestic beasts in his house were offended by some of the smells coming from the goodies i sent. Go figure…

Joe -

I must express my surprise and concern that a gourmet cook like yourself cannot read Spanish - or at least make out labels on hispanic foods. ( This, of course, comes from one whose mother, as a teenager, cooked for mexican ranch hands on a cattle ranch in Northern California, and, as an adult, tended to feed her children the same types of things - chili with and without beans, refried beans, tomales, tomale pie, tacos, burritos, carne with and without the asada, and a lot of other stuff with chili powder or tabasco sauce as the second ingredient. )

My best guess is that the pollo a la king is “chicken in a white sauce” and the pollo a la tomate is “chicken in a tomato sauce.”

My next best guess is that you will be returning shortly to the Dollar Store to lay in a good supply for one of your own gourmet meals.

John

P.S. Wonder if they were at the Dollar Store because they were new ( nuevo ) flavors that didn’t catch on ??

Joe,
The Maggi Co. makes Soup Mixes and I think those are for Stew or Soup. I can’t believe Paul is looking a “Gift Horse” in the mouth!???
Paul told me he was a Food Taster at one time in one of the States he was thrown out of, so this experiment was definitely right up his alley! I will give you all the (Moral) support you need Paul, to go ahead and use one of those mixes with your fav road kill.
Thanks,
Doug :smiley:

Dougie, Paul was extremely thankful for the culinary delights, but neither of us can figure what the hell I bought. All I know is that everything was $.99 or less. At least John did not suggest we relegate this cache to the road kill category.

Did you notice the label on the sunflower seeds? Eat, Spit & be Happy? I thought that was sooooo Paul! LMAO

Joe

mmmmmmmmmmmmm potted meat…

Does he have a local enemy who is stupid enough to “taste test” that stuff??
I think “delicias de pollo” means chickens like it. I THOUGHT I had seen that stuff before…it was on the ground around a chicken coop! :stuck_out_tongue:
Mikey

Joe V.,
Quote;Dougie, Paul was extremely thankful for the culinary delights, but neither of us can figure what the hell I bought. All I know is that everything was $.99 or less. At least John did not suggest we relegate this cache to the road kill category.

Did you notice the label on the sunflower seeds? Eat, Spit & be Happy? I thought that was sooooo Paul! LMAO

Joe." End Quote.
Joe,
I did a little research on The Dollar Store food and…in some cases, there is enough MSG, to sink a Battleship! :smiley: Also, I thought Paul’s motto was “Spit, Eat & Be Happy?” :confused:
Doug

What size hook would you need for the fish steaks?

Joe,
Here is some GOOD NEWS! Quote;For those who don’t favour the taste of Potted Meat, there are other canned options. Pork Brains in Milk Gravy is irresistible just for its cholesterol content (1200% of the U.S. RDA!). Spam is the king of meat products for the sheer quality and purity of its ingredients. Lamb tongues probably look cute but seem to be unavailable in the U.S." End Quote.
WOW!!!
Doug :smiley:

Well Joe, THANKFULLY, a very nice nurse, (and MUCH better looking than either you or Doug, mind you), where I lay here in Emergency on life support, loaned me her laptop so I could AGAIN, write to you and thank you for the culinary “delights”.
I cannot BEGIN to believe my luck, because she also speaks fluent Spanish! Imagine! And, because of my continuing good luck, the paramedics, brought along the packages, albeit empty by the time they reached me, so the doctors could tell what had not only poisoned me, but also why it caused me to be found by a neighbor… naked on my roof and howling at the moon.
Considering it was still daylight, when I was found and the moon was not yet out, only further puzzled the attending physician, I can assure you.
However, I digress.
John, you’ve always been kind to me, so please don’t take this as an “insult to your Spanish”, but BOTH the “supposed chicken dishes”, (once my nurse translated the package labels), seem to state that “BOTH are used in landscaping to sterilize soil” and the one with the red chemical added, actually can also be used to dissolve pesky stones and boulders that are otherwise hard for a landscaper to remove by himself.
True, at one time, these articles WERE actually used for human consumption as well but once discovered as to their true potential, in the field of landscaping, (and rock dissolving), the company of manufacture converted their assets and talents to that field.
As you pointed out, Joe, "I do not speak and/or, read Spanish. However, now that I’ve been here for several hours, listening to my Spanish speaking nurse as well as another Spanish speaking doctor on duty, I’ve managed to pick up ENOUGH of the lingo to decipher such words and phrases as “He ate WHAT?” “The man was dumb enough believe WHO?”, "What or WHO, is an “OHIO”? Is this, “OHIO” some sort of “Culinary hit man?”. I’ve been too weak, to intervene and straighten them out.

I’m also sure, that the rumor I heard from the orderly on duty, about “Bringing SPAM single slices, into a public health care facility is a Federal Offense”, as well as his comment about “Homeland Security being notified”, is just that… a rumor. But, who knows?? I’ve never before seen, so many doctors in an emergency room come to think of it that wear black suits and dark glasses, just to treat patients. This latest “medical team”, showed up about an hour ago.

The “Fish Steaks”, although printed in our language, were also mislabeled. Or, more rightfully, “misspelled”. It should be spelled “Stakes”, not “Steaks”, because you would not have to drive one thru the heart of a vampire to kill one with this stuff. Merely opening the can and allowing the “fumes” to reach him/her would surely suffice. Speaking of which, I need to know where to send the bill for the new wallpaper in 3 rooms of our home, that now needs replacing.

“The potted meat”, at LEAST was aptly and correctly labeled! Obviously, if one smoked enough of one kind, then they’d be able perhaps, to ingest Armor’s attempt at whatever they’d try to come up with in that little can.

Anyway, I hope at least SOME of this, make a little sense. It’s hard to type with the IV tubes still in and having to use this little tan bucket still, every few seconds.
At least the doctor’s tell me that I’ll be fine, in a year or three. They also told me to “pick and choose my friends a little more cautiously from now on, too.”
I don’t know, WHAT, they meant by saying that!?

Thankfully, my kindness to you paid off. Look at all the great people you got to meet at the ER. Do any of them fly fish? If they moonlight caring for livestock they may be valuable to you around the ranch as well. As far as the package contents dissolving landscape rock, we ARE in a significant nursery area, which is why we have so many migrants, and their accompanying “unique” foodstuffs. It’s not surprising some of the items might have a dual-purpose.

Ah, yes… just goes to prove a little kindness goes a long way. I have to go now. The dog is barking to let me know someone is here. Who could it be at 0530? Better go, there’s 5 guys in black suits and sunglasses, and they’re driving black Suburbans with darkened windows. Hmmmm. I’ll write later.

Joe

Dear “FRIEND”, Joe;
I’m SURE the men in the suits and Suburbans were merely part of my medical team, from last night, coming to tell you I survived the night. They seemed nice that way, when asking me for the business card you’d sent me and a physical description.

When I mentioned “Ohio”, one of the dark suited ones, asked another… “Id this “Ohio” a ‘friendly’ or what?”
Yes, I made it through the night somehow. Medicine’s amazing. So are stomach pumps and bilge pumps. In fact, I’m sure this morning, the guys at the treatment plant in Seaside, think THEY have “amazing equipment” also, as I’m sure it was put to the test after yesterday.

The only rough part, about getting through the night, were the few short and odd dreams I experienced. You and Mikey, one wearing a ruffled and rose bedecked black dress, dancing the Tango was the first. Very realistic, right down to the rose in Mikey's teeth as he danced. I awoke, just as he tossed it to Jack H, who was standing at the side of the dance floor, in yellow boxers and a Hanna Montana T-shirt.
When, next, I saw through a faint haze, HRH Betty fishing a small pond with a Garcia Mitchell 303, a stubby glass rod and with a minnow bucket at her feet. Oddly, she also wore a crown, but it was made from the same material as the FAOL hats are made of. Across the front, instead of the logo, though it said in bold print; "Eat At Joe's". Kinda like those old sandwich signs of years gone by. 
Just before being shocked away, I saw this long precession of T-Fly-Skip48-EdD-Warrenp-Nighthawk and MontanaMoose...............all lead in single file, all harnessed together, like a team of sled dogs!? Behind them, in open sided pink leather pants, wearing an FAOL hat and snapping a whip, was DShock!? He kept yelling SOMETHING about "DON'T MISS ANY LITTER!" DON'T FORGET TO LOOK FOR COINS"!!

I’m better, this morning, thankfully.

Geez Flyb, that was quite the dream and quite the classic Flyb post…keep ‘em comin’ friend !

Cheering you on,

MontanaMoose

One, other, item I was very remiss in adding to the above posts concerning Joe’s kind and unkind gestures of my package…
ALSO, included with the veiled attempt on my life, in the form of “tasty packaged south of the border treats”, there were two plastic containers of flies. (Ones, we fish with, no dead casualties of the kind usually found around such treats included in the box).
I have to be fair, here, and say that the flies included are perhaps some of the finest examples of hand tide flies I have ever seen. Spiders, hackled dries and wets.
Traveling the Fly Show circuit, helping Henry Hoffman over the years, I’ve met, fished with and tied with some of the truly “so called greats” in our sport. Henry, himself of course, Skip Morris, Mike Lawson, Dave Hughes, etc.
I would pit these flies of Joe’s against ANY of those tiers, in a heartbeat, for beauty of tie, proportions, materials usage, pattern complexity. I’ve been tying, myself for nearly 28 years, I think it is, (which is odd, really, being only 30 years old), and I’ve found yet another “Tying mentor”, to add to my list.

The sad part apart having flies like these though, is of course “You can’t fish them”, you may loose them and that would be a shame. Plus, I think I’d break some sort of “mooching game law”, by fishing with flies that are tainted with SPAM grease throughout their material structure. ( a lot of tiers DO wash their hands, Joe, before sitting down at the bench, just a friendly hint is all).
But, that’s okay, too. I STILL wouldn’t fish, with flies of this caliber and run the risk of loosing something truly meaningful to me.

well i notice you have SPAM there. im not sure about the others but i know THAT one definitely isnt for eating…

Joe,
Don’t worry about a thing. Members of Paul’s medical team visited me a couple weeks back after he so graciously helped me out with a fly tying vise. Their interview only lasted a couple hours and I can hardly feel the spot on my backside where they gave me an injection. I do think one of the doctors must have been kind of new with a needle though (just can’t get good help these days) and I feel a rather square hard bump where the needle went in. It almost feels like a little square piece of plastic under the skin. I’m sure it will go away in a few days. If that same doctor wants to give you a shot, just beware, his hands shake quite a bit.

Otherwise, I found Paul’s medical team quite pleasant and I’m sure he’s in good hands with these fellows (although they did appear to be a bit over dressed).

Jeff

SPAM comes in a light!? Wahoo, now I can watch my girlish figure :wink:

Paul,

First, I always wash my hands before & after tying flies. Cooties, don’t ya know? Plus, I never lick my finger to wet them, I use a sponge in a small container of water if I’m tying something unruly that needs help.

Second, FISH THE DAMN FLIES OR SEND THEM TO SOMEONE WHO WILL! I didn’t tie them to have them sit in a box (they were doing that here), so get out and lose as many as you want. If you need more, you know how to reach me, and I’ll get them out ASAP.

Lastly, thanks for your kind words. I can thank those who taught me to tie for the attention to detail that I try to put into every fly, even the 2-minute flies for gills.

Now git out there and get us some pictures of those flies in the mouths of fish. I’m freezing here and the snow is piling up, so the shack nasties are starting to set in big time.

Joe

Jeff -

Might it be a SPAM nymph ?? I’d keep a close eye on it, if I were you. Have a net handy in case it starts to emerge. You’ll want to have an entomologist check it before disposing of it.

Good Luck.

John

That is THE SINGLE and simply the ONLY REASON, that both Joe and The Buckeye Bandit eat the “Lite” version of that God awful sewage byproduct…errrrrrrrrrrrrr. meat.
The B.B. wears fish net waders, (with felt soled 7" heels, no less), so naturally, Joni, he’s VERY conscious about the slim and trim appearance of his legs.
Joe, is merely trying to catch up to the beauty and figure of his beloved, by eating the “Lite” version of SPAM. Which, the way he’s going about it so well, he’ll accomplish his dream. Just about the time I start catching 26" 'Bows by merely calling them to my feet, like I would one of my dogs.