This is how you spell it: il fait trop chaud pour travailler.
And this is what it means: it's way too hot to work!
If I've heard about the Pulco Citron commercial once, I've heard about it 100 times.
Back in the 80's there used to be a really popular french commercial for a so called 100% lemon juice brand called Pulco Citron which had a couple of Pancho Villa look-alikes wiping the sweat off their sombrero clad foreheads and going "ooouufff!! Il fé tro sho pur travayer!" and then a background music would start singing "pulco, pulco, pulco citrooooooon!" while you saw the two dudes gulp down a margarita, wipe the salt off their mustaches, pull their sombreros over their faces and take a "siesta" under a cactus.
Yeah. That's right. Pathetic.
You have no idea how many times I've had the "pulco, pulco, pulco citrooon" jing sang to my face and asked where in Mexico does Pulco Citron come from. Even more incredible, the faces of absolute shock I get when I say that Pulco Citron isn't mexican and that in Mexico we actually make our margaritas with real green lemons!!! I even had a guy call me a liar once! As if!!
I finally did bite the bullet and tasted the darn thing and I have to say... I had a hard time finding the actual lemon among all the other chemical flavors Pulco Citron delights your taste buds with.
But that's not the point of this post. What I started out wanting to say is that currently in Paris it is way too hot to work!!!
Lately we've been having such hot weather that I'm beginning to think I've been living in the North too long. I can no longer put up with 30 something °C temperatures and end up either getting a headache in the evening from sunheat or else getting sick because the only bearable way to sleep is by leaving our windows wide open all night which has the unnerving effect of me waking up the next day with a runny nose and a sore throat.
So yeah... this Mexican does wish she could gulp down a Pulco Citron margarita, pull down her sombrero over her face, lie down next to a cactus and take a nice and cool siesta.
Fned.
9 comments:
Good grief! Ignorance truly is international isn't it? That stuff looks like dish soap or toilet cleaner in the picture.
So... you saying that you are no longer up for a summer in Villahermosa? or San Antonio for that matter. It was hotter and more humid in S.A. yesterday than it was in Merida. A friend and I traded temps.
Misery loves company...it's HOT everywhere,I guess! But, hey, a margarita sounds real good right NOW!
Happy weekend!!
Yup, hot,hot,hot! Maybe that is why I am such a crabby person today?
Hey, maybe that stuff is really pulque? that would account for the weird taste.
When I was a kid,I actually had someone ask me if we were Communists when they learned my family was Cuban! Of course, Cubans are a bit rarer on the west coast...
regards,
Theresa
Jonna: haha, it's true, it does look like dish soap! I think that when I'm back in Yucatan or Texas, I KNOW it's going to be sizzling hot and so my body kinda adapts to it... here, I'm just so used to it being gray and chilly that when suddenly the temperatures rise 10°C from one day to the other, my body simply shuts down. :(
Aunt S: It does! I so wish we could get good tequila here! Making margaritas with Tequila "El Sombrero" (imported from China) just doesn't cut it. :(
Theresa: Tell me about it! I'm sick of geographic clichés. When people here tell me they thought Mexicans where supposed to look wear Ponchos and Sombreros I usually laugh and say "that's like me thinking before I came to France that all french women didn't shave under their arms nor bathe". LOL
And yeah... the heat totally brings out the Grumpy Fned in me.
Fned.
Actually, I make margaritas with a margarita mix that you get - but it's DEFINITELY NOT Pulco Citron. Never heard of that one! Besides, those look like oranges on the bottle and Margaritas are as you said - LEMONY!!!! Anyway, just reading your blog has given me the intense urge to go out and get some margarita mix (I already have tequila, salt, and ice) and make myself a frosty one to celebrate my vacation. (Il n'est fait pas trop chaud mais il n'importe pas...) Guess I'll put it on my to-do list for tomorrow.
I wish I could have a siesta with you...
When and where are we meeting?
Rough! I wish I could trade you weather. We're still in the middle of winter here, although it's been deceptively mild temperatured during the day with chilly nights so it hasn't been too bad.
Isn't it funny the things that people think are Mexican? I find the same thing all the time in Chile...they have things like Salsa Americana, which I always have to them, "I have NEVER seen the likes of that kind of sauce in the U.S. sorry to disappoint!"
And what about us? The U.S. has French Fries. Haha, I bet the French get a good laugh over that!
And THAT is why I don't like eating at La Parilla and being forced to take photos wearing a sombrero and shouting "Tequila!" at the photographer. But there are lots of Americans that do...
Minshap: Good for you!! I can't wait till we're on vacations this Thursday!! Come to think of it... maybe I'll jump the gun and make myself a margarita TONIGHT... you know, cuz after all, what 48hours to go, right?
That girl: You name the place, I'll be there (I can already feel my head nodding off....) ZZZzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Mamacita: Salsa Americana? What's in that stuff? I agree... French fries make the french laugh.. specially because what we call french fries actually come from... Belgium!!! ;) Goes to show.... ;)
Mexpat: *rolling eyes*... why is it that tourists are obsessed with Mexican round "Pique" sombreros??? It's like, HELLO??? Nobody really wears a beret and striped shirts in France nor their underwear over coloured tights in the States. Get over it people!!! Speedy Gonzalez was only a CARTOON!!! LOL
Fned.
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