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So my friend gave tamales to illegals for Christmas...

And it came out in the newspaper.

Well you would think after doing something nice the comments would be positive, yet its just full of cancer.

Kinda sad...

http://nctimes.com/articles/2008/12...529006000f9.txt

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REGION: Family distributes meals to day laborers on Christmas Eve 'We're going to have to make more next year' ENCINITAS ---- This Christmas, instead of giving each other gifts, members of the Swanson family in Encinitas decided to do something for others. They spent their morning Wednesday delivering tamale meals to day laborers. Barbara Swanson said her son, Andy Swanson, came up with the idea. He said he sees the day laborers every day on his way to work and thought it would be nice to give them some Christmas cheer. "I always feel bad for them," Andy Swanson said. "I always wondered, 'Where do they go at night?' I can't afford to hire them all, but we can give them a meal." Members of the family and their friends handed out the meals to dozens of men huddled in the brisk morning at the corner of Encinitas Boulevard and Rancho Santa Fe Road, and at a home improvement store on El Camino Real. Gumercindo Ceteo, a migrant worker from Guatemala, said he would save his tamales for lunch, because jobs and money are scarce. He was one of more than 60 people waiting for work on Rancho Santa Fe Road. "This is very good of them," Ceteo said in Spanish. "There is not a lot of work. The economy is not doing very good." After coming up with the idea, Andy Swanson said he sought help cooking the tamales from a friend, Luis Gracida, whose family owns Bety's Tacos Restaurant on Encinitas Boulevard. Gracida did not hesitate. "I thought it was a great idea," he said while helping bag the tamales at the restaurant with his mother, Bety Gracida, and members of the Swanson family Wednesday morning. Gracida said many of the day laborers were customers, but not many have visited the restaurant lately because of the bad economy. "They used to come in all the time, but they can't anymore because they haven't had any jobs," he said. Tamales, a traditional Mexican treat, date back hundreds of years in Mexico and several other Latin American countries. They are made with cornmeal dough and often stuffed with cheese, meat or a thick sauce called mole. Gracida said tamales were his favorite meal at Christmas. His grandmother cooked them for him as a boy when she visited from Mexico. The idea to cook them for the day laborers immediately appealed to his mother, too. "I remembered my son (loving tamales) and it reminded me of family," she said. The restaurant cooked about 200 tamales. They placed two to three of them in each bag along with a bottle of water, some cookies, fruit, a candy cane and a brown wristband. The wristband was in memory of a friend who died of a drug overdose in 2006, Swanson said. He and some friends started a foundation in memory of his friend, Matthew Grant Luke Perlatti, to promote awareness of the dangers of illegal drugs. After delivering more than 60 meals to the men at Rancho Santa Fe Road, the family went to the Home Depot store at El Camino Real, where they found another group of more than 50 men. The few meals they had left were not nearly enough for everyone. They were distributed within a matter of seconds. As quickly as they received them, the men retreated to the sidewalk to eat ---- and to avoid the watchful eye of the store managers. "Gracias (Thank you)," one man said. "Que Dios los bendiga (God bless you)." Andy Swanson looked at the group of men and said, "We're going to have to make more next year.

LOVE tamales! I had about 10 last night!

Why not feed the 'legal poor'?

A lot of other places feed the homeless. Salvation Army and practically all the churches around do that. They wanted to do something different...

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Originally posted by Lomeli LOVE tamales! I had about 10 last night!

ugh my mom asked what i wanted for xmas dinner and im just like whatever since my sister didnt want birria... then a friend text me asking if my mom made tamales as they really liked them at a house get together i had earlier in the year. hopefully for new years she'll make some.

Thats very kind of you...it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling when I read it....

...then I read the comments. what a buzz kill. Whatever side you are on regarding the illegal aliens, this was an act of kindness to fellow humans. some people just cant pass an opportunity to spread the hate. its the holidays for christ's sake.

thanks for sharing.

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Originally posted by vet26 this was an act of kindness to fellow humans.

I don't understand why people can't see that. Whether they are illegal or legal, it made someone happy, and that's what matters.

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Originally posted by Lomeli I don't understand why people can't see that. Whether they are illegal or legal, it made someone happy, and that's what matters.

Exactly! Too bad there are people out there with their head up their @ss. Wish I would have had received some tamales. That would have made me happy and getting some birria would have made me happier!

BIRRIA!!!

Ooh this was so freaking awesome of them to do.

I had delicious tamales for Christmas, and its awesome that someone thought of doing something so kind for others

Yeah its sad that they are all negative people on there.

Thing is, in "real life" he is getting positive feedback. Even though his Restaurant isnt open right now people have left positive message on the Restaurants answering machine. On top of that he is getting a lot of positive comments in real life when he runs into people that read the article, which is a lot since it was on the front page of the newspaper.

It seems like its always easier just to hide back and comment negatively, then to actually go out and do something. So its good to see that the real life comments are all positive.

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Originally posted by Lomeli BIRRIA!!!

I had some yesterday, but while i was watching Valkyrie i couldn't stop burping.

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Originally posted by evol Why not feed the 'legal poor'?

What the fuck is the difference?


So a crackhead baby on 6th street is more entitled to a tamale because it came out of it's mother's vagina in a McDonalds bathroom in AMERICA than some guy who came accross the border to bust his ass sitting in a home depot parking lot every day to send money back home?

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Originally posted by Lomeli BIRRIA!!!

My mom just made some! I'm eating some as I type this!!

I don't those comment things on news websites. They're usually full of hate. Same thing happens at my work. Whenever we publish a story where a latino had something to do with it - good or bad - it immediately gets plagued with hate.

It's much easier to hide anonymously on the internet, so people do. I'm really glad to hear that the real people on this planet that deserve to breathe have left kind messages for their restaurant.

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Originally posted by Nerologic Yeah its sad that they are all negative people on there. Thing is, in "real life" he is getting positive feedback. Even though his Restaurant isnt open right now people have left positive message on the Restaurants answering machine. On top of that he is getting a lot of positive comments in real life when he runs into people that read the article, which is a lot since it was on the front page of the newspaper. It seems like its always easier just to hide back and comment negatively, then to actually go out and do something. So its good to see that the real life comments are all positive. I had some yesterday, but while i was watching Valkyrie i couldn't stop burping.

This reminds me of an old joke...

Why do mexicans have tamales for christmas?

So they can have some thing to unwrap.

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Originally posted by Nerologic I had some yesterday, but while i was watching Valkyrie i couldn't stop burping.

What did you think of the flick?

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Originally posted by Direct This reminds me of an old joke... Why do mexicans have tamales for christmas? So they can have some thing to unwrap.

Heeheeheheehe

My girlfriend's dad cracked this gem out during Christmas as we were snacking on some tamales. It produced many lols. White people are funny.

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Originally posted by bas Heeheeheheehe My girlfriend's dad cracked this gem out during Christmas as we were snacking on some tamales. It produced many lols. White people are funny.

racist

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Originally posted by evol What did you think of the flick?

I liked it, so did everyone that was in our group. I don't really relate with all the critics that took a shit on the film, i thought it was pretty damn good.

One thing i did notice was that most of the crowd in there was white or European. Our group was the most diverse with me and 2 of my Mexican friends my Thai g/f and my pinoy friend. Other then that it was all white people. Not being racist, i just noticed that.

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Originally posted by Nerologic I had some yesterday, but while i was watching Valkyrie i couldn't stop burping.

Hahaha! I feel sorry for the people that sat next to you.

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Originally posted by Lomeli Hahaha! I feel sorry for the people that sat next to you.

Yeah that was my g/f, she moved a seat over like 20 mins into the movie.

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Originally posted by zerotonin79 racist

Deal with it.

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Originally posted by evol Why not feed the 'legal poor'?

I'm guessing you are talking about the white people that stand around begging for money instead of trying to look for a job??

see the difference...

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Originally posted by DizkokidD I'm guessing you are talking about the white people that stand around begging for money instead of trying to look for a job?? see the difference...

i never see mexican people in SF begging for money in union square, civic center, or tenderloin....come to think of it, i dont see too many mexican people in genereal. I do see many working in the restaurant kitchens or the hotels I stay at though.

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