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Speaker 1: So street food has existed ever since the first urban

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Speaker 1: settlements were created, and a city street food can teach

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Speaker 2: Yes, and for a person in a new country, street

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Speaker 2: vending is often a vital part of how one enters

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Speaker 3: There are so many kinds of street foods.

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Speaker 1: I mean tacos, hot dogs, pretzels, and then there are

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Speaker 3: Today's episode is all about food.

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Speaker 4: And food and a cup of it.

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Speaker 1: My name is Eva Longoria and I am Mate remez

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Speaker 1: Rajon and welcome to Hungry for History, a podcast.

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Speaker 3: That explores our past and present through food.

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Speaker 2: On every episode, we'll talk about the history of some

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Speaker 2: of our favorite dishes, ingredients, and beverages from our culture.

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Speaker 3: So make yourself at home.

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Speaker 2: Today we're going to talk about that idea of a

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Speaker 2: about people waves of immigration. Have a conversation about our

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Speaker 2: favorite sort of foods in a cup and what we

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Speaker 2: think of And then BILLI Sparza will come in, and

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Speaker 2: I thought of him because he wrote this article and

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Speaker 2: Rican cop that's really interesting. He writes about La and

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Speaker 2: of cultures, which I think is really interesting and how

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Speaker 1: I love food in a cup. I think it's convenient.

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Speaker 1: I think it's creative. I think it's fun. Who invented this?

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Speaker 2: I know who?

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Speaker 1: You're the first person to put things a cup and said,

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Speaker 2: So so funny and so interesting.

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Speaker 4: And I agree.

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Speaker 2: There's something so intimate about a cup and so inventive,

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Speaker 2: Like you said, I mean, it's so entrepreneurial.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it holds something. It's easier than a bowl. It's

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Speaker 2: You could walk around with it, it's not going to

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Speaker 2: fall over. Who did this first? So let's go way

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Speaker 2: back and talk about the cup, like what were the

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Speaker 4: And who invented the cup?

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Speaker 3: Who invented the first like food a cup.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's impossible to know who invented the first cup,

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Speaker 2: because cups have been used, you know, forever before recorded history.

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Speaker 4: The earliest known drinking vessels were made from pottery and

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Speaker 1: I know, I was at the Wine Museum in Bordeaux

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Speaker 3: So yeah, cups in general go way back.

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Speaker 4: Pups in general, yes, they go way back.

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Speaker 2: Glass was first first appeared in the sixteenth century BC

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Speaker 3: Must have been in Roman times for sure, right, well.

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Speaker 2: Roman times for sure they were the first or one

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Speaker 2: So when you think of places like Pompeii that had

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Speaker 3: A market, a market with stalls.

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Speaker 2: And exactly, and they would exchange things like wine or

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Speaker 2: So yeah, ancient Rome, and then as time progressed, so

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Speaker 1: But I would have to think that the industrial revolution

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And then we start seeing a difference in materials.

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Speaker 1: Waite, when did we screw it all up and started

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Speaker 2: And this is what makes street bending in a cup

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Speaker 1: So the disposables or the styrophone, remember the styros I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so styrofoam was sort of very easy for make

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Speaker 4: Sort of horrible, horrible, horrible for the environment.

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Speaker 2: But there's evidence of documented paper cups in China around

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Speaker 2: Chemicals invented styrofoam in an attempt to create a rubber

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Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we'll have a conversation

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Speaker 3: with James Beard. Award winning journalist Bill Esparsa, considered one

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Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 3: I feel I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Mexicans invented everything.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm wrong, but I feel like fluting a

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Speaker 3: Do you feel that wall we I mean I grew

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all around me, Yes, so did I. But it

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Speaker 2: is the one that did the food in the cup first?

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Speaker 2: You know, It's just such a part of street food

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Speaker 4: Esquites in the States.

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Speaker 2: The growth of Latin American communities in the twentieth century

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Speaker 2: I agree with you that Mexicans have the best street

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Speaker 2: the Nawa word esquito, from the word issekwi, which means

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Speaker 2: to toe corn. And they're often sold by street vendors

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Speaker 2: in the evenings, in parks and little placitas. So it's

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Speaker 2: of mine told me, you have to get the esquitas

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Speaker 4: And I didn't want to go to the wrong person.

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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, I see a line

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Speaker 4: It's it's it's some sort of Chili I think, I

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Speaker 1: I can see how immigrants bring their food cultures from

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Speaker 2: Adapting to what's available here. But it also bringing these

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Speaker 2: So you introduce your foods to people who are not

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Speaker 1: All Right, you guys today we have an amazing person

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Speaker 3: We don't have a lot of guests on the show bill.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 6: I'm spoiled, feeling spoiled.

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Speaker 1: Are you?

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Speaker 6: I'm doing fine? Up, are you?

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Speaker 4: Mike is your biggest I'm a huge fan.

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Speaker 6: Oh well, thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: Where did you grow up there in northern California. My

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Speaker 5: family is from West Calientes. We have the most amazing

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Speaker 5: dorta ever. Oh really, Krema, It's it's a bolo they

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Speaker 5: only make there, and they fill it with cream, a

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Speaker 5: pickled jalapeno and that's it. Or and a piece of ham,

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Speaker 5: a piece of like lunch meat ham. It's it's a

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Speaker 2: Is it like nata or is it like Mexican Krema, it'sma.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it sounds delicious.

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Speaker 1: Well, you've eaten your way through Los Angeles, So what

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Speaker 1: is some of the most interesting foods in a cup

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Speaker 1: You've encountered the.

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Speaker 6: Most interesting inside of a cup? Yeah, vasso bourriqua.

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Speaker 5: There's ah, it's a Puerto Rican stand I just wrote

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Speaker 5: about recently down in Long Beach, and they do these

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Speaker 5: really trendy cups that are popular in Puerto Rico, and

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Speaker 5: they have mofongo arols and and they have a skewer

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Speaker 1: I didn't even think about Puerto Rican food in a cup,

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Speaker 3: Mofongo is one of my favorite things is the.

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Speaker 6: Name and longer.

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Speaker 3: So we've got to post some photo right now.

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 2: This is why I wanted to have you on because

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Speaker 2: when I read about this body cup, I was like,

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Speaker 2: this is incredible. Like I've I had not not thought

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Speaker 4: But the body cup is like, Oh, this is so interesting.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, I love Bill how you discover

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Speaker 2: little places in La and.

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Speaker 4: How you know, know food in a cup?

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Speaker 6: You know, they'll have a certain you've seen this before.

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Speaker 5: You go around to Cuban restaurants and they all have

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Speaker 6: And that's exciting for me. I think.

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Speaker 3: I always say you learn about a culture through their food.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's not a museum, it's it's it's a lie.

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Speaker 3: How amazing was he? I want his job? Like he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he eats right now. He joined us from Washington State.

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Speaker 2: He was at a Thaco festival in Washington State. It's

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Speaker 3: What's your favorite food in a cup? There's so many

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Speaker 3: that's really hard.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I would have to say, I love escuit

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Speaker 2: I grew up calling them ado though I didn't learn

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Speaker 3: I called him a lots in a cup. I said,

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Speaker 1: And then they're like, no, there's a lot, and then

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Speaker 1: It was called two different things. But yeah, until until

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Speaker 3: I love I love mango and cucumbers with chile and

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Speaker 1: CHAMOI I love, Like, I can't pass by one of

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Speaker 1: those food one of those fruita vendors on the street.

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Speaker 4: Same same.

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Speaker 2: There's one on the corner of my house right right here.

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Speaker 1: But also like, let's talk about fruit though, Like let's

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Speaker 3: Cultures completely one cup. Because the mango's from where.

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Speaker 2: Mangoes from India, coconut and limes are from Asia, watermelon

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Speaker 2: of mixture of cultures, Asian cultures that was then developed

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Speaker 3: Like you said, they're usually immigrants, wake up at five am,

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Speaker 3: they go to the wholesale fruit market, they per you know,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of these these fruit thattos, you know,

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Speaker 3: So I just think there's so much history behind behind.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's incredibly hard work.

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Speaker 2: And there's this woman a professor at a University of

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Speaker 4: Gas is off. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I am big on TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big TikToker now. And one of the trendiest

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Speaker 1: a car crash of cultures because bilia, as you know,

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Speaker 3: All these spices usually traditionally made of goats of goats.

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Speaker 1: Meat, but you know you can have bva is now

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Speaker 3: It's just the brothiness of like different things. Because I've

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Speaker 1: Now people are adding ramen noodles, which is Japanese even

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Speaker 1: though ramen originated in China. It's it's you know, it's

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Speaker 1: this cultural exchange in a cup, which is so I

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Speaker 1: wonder who the first person came up with this of

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Speaker 1: like this hot broth, Why don't I heat up my noodles,

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Speaker 1: my instant noodles in this amazing broth, which is probably

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Speaker 2: I know, it's such an ingenious idea for sure, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's like the Mexican beria, the rama noodles that are

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Speaker 3: You know, and then adding cilantro and onions and lime

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Speaker 3: they're calling it bila ramen.

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Speaker 4: Piri ramen is brilliant.

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Speaker 3: It's brilliant brilliant, and people credit this Mexican ship, right, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Mexico City A chef, Antonio de Livier was credited by

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Speaker 2: it became really famous twenty nineteen, so not that long ago.

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Speaker 2: And now it's like it's a huge thing. And like

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Speaker 3: The other thing I grew up with in a cup

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Speaker 3: is rustbus. In Texas, we have rastpus. My husband makes

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Speaker 3: because in Mexico they're called rastpatos, yeah, which are snowclones.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So that's another fun thing. And sometimes you can put

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Speaker 1: You can have all these different flavors like that a

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Speaker 2: Too, and or or some sort of fruity syrup and

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Speaker 4: Yes, oh my god, it's so good.

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Speaker 2: We talk a little bit about that in our in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what I I've never had, which

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Speaker 3: I saw was on our list was flout buzz and busts.

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Speaker 4: You haven't had them?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I've never seen that? No, have you? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Yes, I don't know where I've seen them, but I

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Speaker 2: And it's basically the cup and on the bottom they

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Speaker 2: they put the little flout thas, which are the little

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Speaker 2: you know, fried takitos rolled and then they they're sticking

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Speaker 2: you just dip, you know, you just you know, you

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Speaker 2: you put the toppings. Brilliant, brilliant. And they are said

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Speaker 2: this traditional cup. Wow, traditional dish served in a very non.

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Speaker 3: What a great idea because it is a hand food,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it's a it's a hand food.

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Speaker 3: So that's amazing to have the Grandma and the sauts

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Speaker 3: I'm going to just start making flats at home and

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Speaker 3: do that. It's a great I'm going to give it

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Speaker 3: to my son in a cup.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it's easy. It's easy. Yeah, it's so easy.

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Speaker 2: It's a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant idea.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Thank you for listening to this episode of Food

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Speaker 1: and a Cup. I think it's so enlightening because, like

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Speaker 1: you said, Mikey, they're like these little collisions of cultures.

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Speaker 1: The world is in your hands, and what a what

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Speaker 1: a great topic to talk about.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm hungry.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm hungry too. Yes, the world did a cup.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all so much for listening.

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Speaker 3: Thanks everybody for listening.

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Speaker 1: Hungry for History is a hyphen Media production in partnership

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Speaker 1: with Iheart's Michael past Network.

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