{"id":8002,"date":"2006-07-22T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8002.html"},"modified":"2006-07-22T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T13:17:13","slug":"taco-takeover-illegal-immigrants-coming-at-us-through-our-stomachs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/taco-takeover-illegal-immigrants-coming-at-us-through-our-stomachs\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco takeover: Illegal immigrants coming at us through our stomachs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone’s favorite right-wing, Messiah-owned newspaper, The Washington Times, keeps a close eye on those pesky Mexicans for us.<\/p>\n

Recently, the paper’s “Inside the Beltway” column noted<\/a> that President George W. Bush has softened somewhat on his opposition to a fence along the Mexican border. Bush now says he might back about 370 miles of fencing but no more.<\/p>\n

Writer John McCaslin followed up that report with an odd observation: People in this country eat a lot of Mexican food.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we learned yesterday that as more and more Mexicans — illegal or otherwise — continue to flood into the United States, the demand for indigenous Mexican food and beverages is increasing to the point that it has become a ‘booming’ industry, both for suppliers in Mexico and distributors in this country.<\/p>\n

According to the firm Market Research, the Mexican food industry in the United States is estimated at $52 billion and growing, with seven in 10 surveyed households using Mexican food and ingredients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess I’m supposed to think this is ominous — and if I were a regular reader of the xenophobic Times, perhaps I would. The Mexicans are taking over! They and their food are running amok! Is no one safe? What about our children? Will someone please think of the children?!
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\nYes, those crafty Mexicans. They come bearing strange new spices and peppers. But the rather mundane fact that more and more people are enjoying Mexican cuisine fails to alarm me. Personally, I love Mexican food — and as far as I know I don’t have a drop of Mexican blood in me. My guess is that many of those seven out of 10 homes that regularly buy “Mexican food and ingredients” don’t have a single Hispanic person in them. After all, that’s a pretty broad term and would encompass anyone who picked up even something as tame as an Old El Paso burrito kit at the local Safeway.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more people are enjoying Mexican food. So what? This may come as a surprise to the Times, but let me lay it out there: People often eat the food of other cultures. A lot of it tastes good, and it’s a way of expanding your horizons and enjoying some fine eats at the same time.<\/p>\n

If The Times is trying to fill me with dread of a coming Hispanic takeover, it will have to do better than this. Judging by the lines I see at the Mexican restaurants in my area — and the ever-expanding waistlines of much of the clientele at them — Americans have already surrendered on the Mexican food front, figuring if you can’t beat them, at least enjoy their tasty dishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo Everyone’s favorite right-wing, Messiah-owned newspaper, The Washington Times, keeps a close eye on those pesky Mexicans for us. Recently, the paper’s “Inside the Beltway” column noted that President George W. Bush has softened somewhat on his opposition to a fence along the Mexican border. Bush now says he might back about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}