Mexican Influence around the World Thread

[Ülev]

Meksyk - polish word for Mexico ---> https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meksyk_(Rybnik)
is a district of Rybnik town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybnik

[RMuller]

Meksyk - polish word for Mexico ---> https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meksyk_(Rybnik)
is a district of Rybnik town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybnik

Cool. Thanks.


Knights carry an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in procession in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland.



The 6,000-mile flight from Mexico to Poland takes 10 hours and crosses seven time zones. There are few diplomatic ties between these two countries, and when the average Polish citizen thinks of Mexico, the only thoughts that come to mind are stereotypical images of tequila, sombreros and spicy Mexican cooking. So when the Knights of Columbus in Poland were invited last August to participate in a Marian Prayer Program dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe — an image that has particular meaning for Catholics in Mexico — there was a certain sense of cautiousness.

“This image of Mary is little known in Poland,” said Stanisław Dziwiński, who is a member of Bishop Theodore Kubina Council 14955 in Częstochowa and the coordinator of the prayer program in Poland. “I remember the first time we displayed the image in one of the churches in Częstochowa. Many people came up to me and asked, ‘What is that portrait?’”

Nonetheless, Poles have responded positively over the past nine months, and participation has surpassed the organizers’ highest expectations. Since October 2011, a pilgrim image of Our Lady of Guadalupe has visited more than 20 local councils and some 150,000 people have participated in the program. When one factors in visitors who have prayed before the image between “official” prayer services, the number is likely much higher, according to Dziwiński.


On Nov. 12, 2011, Msgr. Stanisław Pindera, a member of John Paul II Council 14023 in Starachowice, Poland, celebrated Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church as the council hosted the pilgrim image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Leszek Waksmundzki, coordinator of development for the Knights of Columbus in Poland, emphasized that the pilgrim image of Our Lady of Częstochowa set the stage for the Our Lady of Guadalupe prayer program. “This form of venerating Our Lady is not new to us,” he said,“and we can relate to it very well.”

“It is the chaplains who are doing an amazing job,” added Poland State Deputy Krzysztof Orzechowski. “In the weeks before the image arrives at a parish, [the chaplains] are busy preparing the faithful, teaching them about the image and about the meaning of the message, using their own pastoral programs.”

The themes of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s message resonate in Polish parishes, and the image allows Poles to feel closer to Blessed John Paul II. The beloved Polish pope visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City on four occasions and called Our Lady of Guadalupe “the star of the new evangelization.” Under her Guadalupan title, Mary is also regarded as the protector and patroness of life, because she is depicted with child.

Although each region of Poland has its own unique Marian image, Our Lady of Guadalupe did not become anyone’s “rival,” according to coordinator Dziwiński. Rather, she has allowed Poles to witness the universality of the Church.

“Some people have joked whether Our Lady of Ludźmierz, a well-known Marian image in Poland, would learn to speak Spanish so that she could converse with Our Lady of Guadalupe,” said Dziwiński. “But it is evident to everyone that there is one Mary who is represented in many images, each having their own unique message.”

Since the program began, bishops have led at least seven of the celebrations in Poland, often giving the pilgrimage recognition throughout their dioceses. In Rzeszów alone, about 30,000 people visited the image in one week.

“The faithful came to me and said that Our Lady came to visit them because they did not have the money to travel to Mexico,” said Father Janusz Kosior, chaplain of St. Hedwig the Queen Council 15268 in Rzeszów. “They thought of it as their holiday and they made a pilgrimage from different areas of the province.”

Seeing their faith, Father Kosior suggested that the Knights look to government leaders to entrust the entire Podkarpacie province to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Local officials obliged, and on Feb. 13, the World Day of Prayer for Families, they read a declaration dedicating the province to Our Lady’s care. Bishop Kazimierz Górny of Rzeszów, rectors of local universities and military representatives were among those who took part in this unprecedented event.

Interestingly, Our Lady of Guadalupe turned out to be closer to Poland than anyone could have foreseen one year ago. Orzechowski remembers his surprise when he found out that Poland is the only country in Europe that has been entrusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe. During Mass at the basilica in Mexico City on May 3, 1959, Cardinal Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez of Mexico consecrated Poland to Our Lady of Guadalupe’s care at the request of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.




ENTRUSTING POLAND TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

After the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, a Polish soldier named Jerzy Skoryna settled in Mexico, where he visited the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and noticed the flags of countries that had been consecrated to Our Lady. He learned that in order for Poland to be consecrated, too, formal requests were needed from the cardinal primate of Poland and from the Polish government. Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński quickly sent the first request, but the communist regime in Poland refused to send its own request for ideological reasons. The president of the Polish Republic in exile, who at that time was recognized by the Holy See, sent the second request instead.

The ceremony took place May 3, 1959 — the feast of Our Lady, Queen of Poland and the anniversary of the first Polish Constitution, the world’s oldest constitution after the United States. In his homily, Cardinal Miranda y Gómez said that when Mexican Catholics experienced persecution in the 1920s and ’30s, the people of Poland prayed for them. And through this consecration and the prayers of the Church in Mexico, the spiritual favor was being repaid.

Entrusting Poland to Our Lady of Guadalupe also reinforced the belief that the victory over oppressive governments and enemies of the Church comes through Mary.

[RMuller]

Polish Mariachi'? Singing to the Virgin of Guadalupe

Virgen Morenita song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvevmA185I


Lupita song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qav8a-HVFT0

Gracias Virgencita morena song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cavAFXEFzmM

"Mi Madrecita" - Guadalupe
song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1hrdAO-U_o

Cancion para la Virgen de Guadalupe (Polonia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkAGGs_9arE


Magnificat- Wspólnota Guadalupe i Przyjaciele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24dOrEm472I

[RMuller]

The Super bowl is most watch event show in the USA.150 million viewers



Super Bowl 50 expected to set record – for guacamole

What’s a Super Bowl without guacamole? Apparently, pretty hard to imagine.

But picture this: The football field in Levi’s Stadium filled with guacamole – 53 feet deep (or 18 feet higher than the top of the goal posts). That’s the equivalent of the anticipated avocado consumption on Super Bowl Sunday.


At Big Game parties nationwide, Americans likely will consume avocados like they never have before. According to the Haas Avocado Board, Super Bowl Day fans are expected to eat an estimated 278 million avocados – more than 139 million pounds – mostly in the form of guacamole.

That’s a 13 percent increase over last year’s game day total of 246 million avocados. This year’s spike coincides with a great Haas avocado crop, ripe in time for Super Bowl. And the fact that Super Bowl 50 will be contested in California makes guacamole an automatic score with hungry fans.

To celebrate, the Haas Avocado Board is attempting to set another record: The world’s largest online photo album of guacamole. Fans are asked to share photos of their guacamole (or guacamole-topped dishes) on their favorite social media platform – Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Vine or Flickr – using the hashtags #GuacGoal and #Entry. Participants get a chance at a a grand prize of $500, two $250 runner-up prizes or one of seven footballs signed by 49ers legend Joe Montana, a three-time Super Bowl MVP.

Fans have through 11:59 p.m. Feb. 7 to upload their guacamole snapshots. See some examples and complete rules at www.loveonetoday.com/guacgoal.

Guaca-BOWL-e nachos stadium (recipe, Page D2) has mashed avocados

[RMuller]

Yu-Mex (portmanteau of "Yugoslav" and "Mexican") was a style of popular music in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia which incorporated the elements of traditional Mexican music.The style was mostly popular during the 1950s and 60s, when a string of Yugoslav singers began to perform traditional Mexican songs.



YuMex (Yu-Mex or Yugoslav Mexican) music: how it all began
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBS9Ql07AlM


Ljubomir Milic i Trio paloma - Sam ko vetar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkwg8tyVSA


Mariachi Band aus Podravina in "Domovnica", Đurđevac, 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSQ03E2tjbE

Cancion mexicana cantada en Serbocroata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUXqjs1TnE


Zaboravljeni junaci sombrero ere



LA PELÍCULA QUE HIZO LLORAR A YUGOSLAVIA
En un país europeo causo sensación un filme muy singular de un director aclamado mucho mas en el extranjero que en su propio pais, aunque muy iconico con su trabajo, la película mexicana UN DIA DE VIDA ( jedan dan zivota ) fue sensación en aquel pais extinto llamado yugoslavia un pais discreto que fue fuertemente influensado por la singular y simpatica cultura mexicana una pelicula hizo mucho asi como esa pelicula la hizo un hombre,, disfruta Del video y aqui te dejo los enlaces para mas informacion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhcdCIfAts8


LAS MAÑANITAS CROATAS a copy of Mexican manitas " happy birth day Mexican style"
mizo kovac cantante crota interpreta la cancion jedan dan zivota un dia de vida, esta cancion tiene su origen en una pelicula del director el indio fernandez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETwZc2LJbkA








some current Mariachi groups






Mariachi Los Caballeros from Croatia

[RMuller]

Mexican natives Domesticated Tomatoes

History of Tomatoes

The exact origin of Tomato plant is not known, although it is speculated that it evolved from the prehistoric plant Nighshade over millions of years ago in South America (together with potato, tobacco and chili peppers) and slowly moved to north until it was domesticated in the lands of Mesoamerica Mexico .This land was a home of several advanced Pre-Columbian society who flourished there until arrival of Europeans in the Age of Discovery. During 500 BC, one of those cultures managed to domesticate tomato and integrate it into their cuisine. That culture was from Mexico . From that point on, tomato slowly spread across the central and South America, somewhere being used as a food, but somewhere also being used as a hallucinogenic (a use that will later on be a cause of many misconceptions about this vegetable).


The first European contact with tomato came with Christopher Columbus who possibly encountered it in 1493, but it was Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés who first saw the potential of this plant in the city of Aztec city of Tenochtítlan and took its seeds back to Europe. There, seeing that tomato could grow without a problem in a warm Mediterranean climate, Spanish government started encouraging its production in both Europe and its distant colonies. As early as 1540s tomato started being produced in Spanish fields, and was used regularly as a common food in early 17th century. Other European countries did not adopt tomato immediately. For example, even though Italian nobility and scientists found out about tomato from 1548, (which is now famous for their tomato and ketchup industry), they used it only as a tabletop decoration fruit until late 17th and early 18th century. They cherished their beauty, and experimented with selective breeding, managing to create tomatoes of many colors and shapes. Tomato received similar fate in England, where it was introduced in 1597, but it remained viewed as unhealthy, poisonous and unfit to eat in both England and its North American colonies.

In early 19th century tomato finally arrived in Asia. It arrived there under the guidance of British consul in Syria John Barker who directed first cultivation efforts. By mid-19th century, tomato gained much popularity and started being used widely in Syria, Iran and China.



In 2009, worldwide tomato production rose to 158.3 million tons, surpassing the previous year by 3.7%.








All dishes that use Tomatoes have Mexican influence. Later on i will post dishes foods that use Tomatoes.

[RMuller]

Pupusa from ElSalvador.Pupusa is El Salvador's main dish.
Made out of CORN=>Mexican




It's a copy of the Gordita which is Mexican

[Heather Duval]

Never tried nachos, tacos etc Its not popular here, but I would try it because im curious about how it taste

[RMuller]

Never tried nachos, tacos etc Its not popular here, but I would try it because im curious about how it taste

Some Mexican Restaurants in Brazil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUh6-5jQfVs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKf0iEK48KI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vWjNtg73yw&t=299s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5oZWO-5ZE

[RMuller]

Vanilla
Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). The word vanilla, derived from the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina (vaina itself meaning sheath or pod), is translated simply as "little pod".[1] Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.

Vanilla is the second-most expensive spice after saffron,[11][12] because growing the vanilla seed pods is labor-intensive.[12] Despite the expense, vanilla is highly valued for its flavor.[13] As a result, vanilla is widely used in both commercial and domestic baking, perfume manufacture, and aromatherapy.

According to popular belief, the Totonac people, who inhabit the east coast of Mexico in the present-day state of Veracruz, were the first to cultivate vanilla.[14] According to Totonac mythology, the tropical orchid was born when Princess Xanat, forbidden by her father from marrying a mortal, fled to the forest with her lover. The lovers were captured and beheaded. Where their blood touched the ground, the vine of the tropical orchid grew.[5] In the 15th century, Aztecs invading from the central highlands of Mexico conquered the Totonacs, and soon developed a taste for the vanilla pods. They named the fruit tlilxochitl, or "black flower", after the matured fruit, which shrivels and turns black shortly after it is picked. Subjugated by the Aztecs, the Totonacs paid tribute by sending vanilla fruit to the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.

Vanilla was completely unknown in the Old World before Cortés. Spanish explorers arriving on the Gulf Coast of Mexico in the early 16th century gave vanilla its current name. Spanish and Portuguese sailors and explorers brought vanilla into Africa and Asia later that century. They called it vainilla, or "little pod". The word vanilla entered the English language in 1754, when the botanist Philip Miller wrote about the genus in his Gardener’s Dictionary.[19] Vainilla is from the diminutive of vaina, from the Latin vagina (sheath) to describe the shape of the pods.[20]