Speaker 1: Piece of the planet, Charlamagne the God here and as
Speaker 1: we come closer the closing out this year, I just
Speaker 1: want to say thank you for tuning into the Black
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
Speaker 2: I'm your host Colleen Wit and today we have very
Speaker 2: very special guests, DC Young Fly What it do?
Speaker 3: What it do? I thought we was already recording. Oh
Speaker 3: that was crazy. You was putting on a twenty five
Speaker 3: minutes and I just knew it. I was like, what
Speaker 3: is good?
Speaker 4: I want none of that.
Speaker 5: She's gonna get used. Oh my lot, So what are
Speaker 5: you gonna have me intoday?
Speaker 6: You're kind of like, what's the what's the school they
Speaker 6: go to to go to be a shif?
Speaker 5: Culinary school?
Speaker 3: No, not color, it's culinary, but court on blue.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's like to stage right before cut on blue,
Speaker 7: like show me it did?
Speaker 3: Like, Oh that's that? So you whip back? Did put
Speaker 3: it with the noodle? You caught it on blue?
Speaker 5: That motherfucker?
Speaker 3: But what kind of sauce will you get? I would
Speaker 3: have told you to get this sweet baby raid. But
Speaker 3: it's all good will.
Speaker 5: All this time, and you just not realizing the missing
Speaker 5: and creamy.
Speaker 3: No one I realized what we were doing. I forgot
Speaker 3: the extra. But now that I'm here, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 3: it is a little bit more to it. But this
Speaker 3: the man did.
Speaker 5: Okay, So what's the missing sauce?
Speaker 3: He said, Sweet baby Rain, what is it?
Speaker 5: Is that hot sauce sauce? Yeah, barbecue sauce. But wait,
Speaker 5: you add that to ramen you don't know.
Speaker 4: About, Sweet Baby Ray.
Speaker 5: Do you really add that to your ramen?
Speaker 3: You don't know about?
Speaker 5: Sweet baby No?
Speaker 7: I know every every listen, if you still eat hot sauce,
Speaker 7: you are technically as sleep. We have been past the
Speaker 7: hot sauce stage. That ship was with none of nine
Speaker 7: to the two thousand. When back that ass up came in,
Speaker 7: we own sweet Baby Ray.
Speaker 3: Okay, he got some motion. He got this sweet chilny.
Speaker 3: That really the one to eat.
Speaker 5: This Atlanta based or something.
Speaker 7: Sweet Baby Okay, sweet baby Nation ride as soon as
Speaker 7: you go on the barbecues.
Speaker 3: He got a whole six. It ain't just like like
Speaker 3: a little like shill. She would have got shell shell shill,
Speaker 3: come on down.
Speaker 2: Okay, you look at the whole hour, You're like, who
Speaker 2: this Sweet Baby Ray?
Speaker 8: They all him.
Speaker 3: No, you gotta add that on top of that. And
Speaker 3: sweet Baby Ray good with steak chicken, just.
Speaker 5: A good little you know what I'm saying, little little
Speaker 5: little additive. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: You could put into whatever you got.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 2: You know, I really wish I would have tried it
Speaker 2: with the sweet baby right now.
Speaker 5: You ain't never had sweet baby well, not with ramen
Speaker 5: and cookie show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know what, you will be the first
Speaker 2: guest to ever do ramen with hot dogs with Sweet
Speaker 2: Baby Ray.
Speaker 5: It would have been It would have been legendary.
Speaker 3: See sweet need to go on hand. They put me
Speaker 3: in the commercer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, at this point, no cap the first thing come up.
Speaker 5: Ain't out a half sweet baby?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do with
Speaker 5: it though, here's a buttern.
Speaker 3: Y'all got beef. Let me show you something.
Speaker 5: We have beef and chicken. Don't worry about We're gonna
Speaker 5: mix it up.
Speaker 4: We're gonna get both.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you have enough water.
Speaker 3: We got no water.
Speaker 2: That's not big no that, I'm gonna stay out the
Speaker 2: kitchen so thoughtful.
Speaker 3: We don't need all that if we're gonna get it right. Beef,
Speaker 3: you can't even be next to I'm gonna chove it up.
Speaker 3: We got chopp like you gonna do this real beef
Speaker 3: cut at the head. Okay, then you got a butterfly.
Speaker 3: Oh you got a butterfly.
Speaker 9: Butterfly sticky in the middle, so we can burn in
Speaker 9: the middle. All right, to all my real noodle uh uh,
Speaker 9: pioneers out there.
Speaker 3: What's the first thing you do with the with the noodle?
Speaker 3: What you do with the noodle?
Speaker 5: You break it alight? Did you know did something before?
Speaker 10: Don't no matter?
Speaker 4: Eat long lass over.
Speaker 5: I don'tbody know how that puts a ship.
Speaker 4: We want to do to be right here, nigga.
Speaker 9: You seeing her here twisting it this shit and I
Speaker 9: just put ass on.
Speaker 4: Man, we want last noodle.
Speaker 5: Man. I never seen someone cut the hot dogs before
Speaker 5: the boiler.
Speaker 3: You gotta cut the hot dogs. You see the pet
Speaker 3: who you gotta save it?
Speaker 9: When you see it how full it is, You're like, Yeah,
Speaker 9: that's a lot of South.
Speaker 3: All the young kids know that South.
Speaker 2: You got to have you some South for they beef South, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which one better beef chicken chicken?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm an anti beefer and you know what I'm
Speaker 5: over here, trip.
Speaker 3: I can't eat chicken.
Speaker 5: It's just a I'm still up here about to kid myself.
Speaker 5: But this show, but there's no chicken in it. No, yeah,
Speaker 5: but I'm saying so to remove the flavors.
Speaker 9: So this really but no, but this has been like
Speaker 9: put to the side, being prepared like it was gonna
Speaker 9: be chicken.
Speaker 3: So we gotta throw like it was chicken.
Speaker 5: Okay, damn, why I'm gonna mix the sauce.
Speaker 4: I almost did it again.
Speaker 3: It's all good. You don't put that in there right
Speaker 3: out eye. That's that's what you calls. Okay, okay, all right, you're.
Speaker 9: Doing sometimes when you crush them up too much, you
Speaker 9: look stupid.
Speaker 3: And now they look like frosty flake. They just in
Speaker 3: the little noodle.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: Then we're gonna talk these like in him like there's
Speaker 3: some oysters and you let that cool.
Speaker 5: Okay, So take me back to what was going on
Speaker 5: when you were eating ramen consistently. All right, let's focus
Speaker 5: on what for me.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'm gonna keep it very very very basic and
Speaker 11: I'm gonna do some spaghetti with the signature ground turkey
Speaker 11: that I.
Speaker 3: Grew up that my mom used to use signature.
Speaker 11: I mean, I guess everybody's ground turkey now, but we
Speaker 11: when I was growing up as a kid in Chicago,
Speaker 11: my mom she was you know, we didn't really eat
Speaker 11: a lot of beef and pork. So years ago, in
Speaker 11: the seventies, we ate turkey, ground turkey, turkey bacon. So
Speaker 11: that's why my love for turkey come from. So that's
Speaker 11: why I cook everything with not everything, but a lot.
Speaker 11: I do a lot of other things good. But see
Speaker 11: the streets.
Speaker 4: The streets.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you're gonna have.
Speaker 4: The streets. What did you say?
Speaker 2: You screamed the streets, Jerry, I'm gonna say it now,
Speaker 2: legendary Jerry Clark scream streets.
Speaker 5: Are you married right now? I don't want to say
Speaker 5: that if you're married.
Speaker 4: I'm not married, streets. I was married before. I was
Speaker 4: married before.
Speaker 2: Okay, the streets got streets have anything to do with
Speaker 2: the possible ending?
Speaker 11: No, No, not that I'm a square. I'm a quiet square, real,
Speaker 11: a quiet square guy.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna cook.
Speaker 2: I find that hard to believe you you're legendary and
Speaker 2: music exact, you work with all these Southern rappers.
Speaker 4: And yes, so what does that have to do with
Speaker 4: me being in the streets? Colon.
Speaker 2: By the end of the interview, I'm gonna we're gonna
Speaker 2: determine if you if you was for the streets or
Speaker 2: if you are a square.
Speaker 5: We shall see no.
Speaker 4: But you know what, technically you can be both.
Speaker 5: You could be that's someone that's from the streets.
Speaker 4: But say that you could beat both.
Speaker 11: Okay, but you look, I have not to cut you
Speaker 11: off and have some mom wheat noodles that I like
Speaker 11: to use.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I noticed that you were very particular. What's up
Speaker 5: with the wheat? I didn't even know they sold wheat
Speaker 5: until you said wheat?
Speaker 4: Come on calling you stop?
Speaker 5: I was like, ship, how do you tell? I literally
Speaker 5: looked at the noodles. I said, how do you tell?
Speaker 5: Which ones are weak?
Speaker 2: And then I saw some that look like wheat, and
Speaker 2: I saw some that said wheat, And I said, okay,
Speaker 2: there is such thing Colin.
Speaker 4: You had never heard of wheat noodles.
Speaker 5: I eat protein noodles. Have you heard of protein noodles? Exactly?
Speaker 4: Just like you got white bread, you got wheat bread.
Speaker 4: So it's anything you can.
Speaker 5: You know, what's your obsession with these wheats? They taste better?
Speaker 11: Nah, just like their little healthy And I'll eat some, mom,
Speaker 11: I'll eat some where do you tell I'll eat some Mom,
Speaker 11: I'll eat.
Speaker 4: Some white noodles?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 4: Yes, I will.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: And you took all that spaghettiod for two yeah?
Speaker 5: Can I die?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 11: I look, I'm I'm I'm talking and cooking.
Speaker 4: And I'm not.
Speaker 11: I never usually do that, and I really don't cook
Speaker 11: a lot. Feel you should?
Speaker 4: I feel very special you should. Okay, so you definitely should.
Speaker 5: You cook it.
Speaker 2: Take me back to what was going on during this
Speaker 2: time of spaghetti noodles with ground turkey.
Speaker 4: I had a very simple upbringing. Uh.
Speaker 11: My parents were married before before my father passed in
Speaker 11: twenty sixteen, they were married for forty five years. So
Speaker 11: I had a good, solid upbringing. Uh, three siblings. I'm
Speaker 11: second in the pecking order, so I watched a family
Speaker 11: you know growing up. My mom was big into uh, well,
Speaker 11: my parents were big into you know, having dinner. No
Speaker 11: matter what we had, whether it was practice or you know,
Speaker 11: moving around, we had to have dinner, whether it was
Speaker 11: five ten minutes before we you know, every night. So
Speaker 11: all that to say, I I came up in a
Speaker 11: in a variant, I'm a p very appreciative of coming
Speaker 11: up in.
Speaker 4: A very stable, solid upbringing, cause I look at shit, now.
Speaker 5: Shit was it middle class or oh.
Speaker 12: No, we ain't had no money? Okay, we ain't had
Speaker 12: no money. Okay, we was in Chicago. We moved to Oxville, Tennese.
Speaker 12: For a quick minute, and then we moved down south. Well,
Speaker 12: we moved farther south to Atlanta.
Speaker 5: Okay, And.
Speaker 11: That was the best decision my parents could have ever made,
Speaker 11: because I loved this city. It was I you know,
Speaker 11: of course, being a black Mecca. I was able to
Speaker 11: go to high school here and just really grow okay
Speaker 11: and spread my wings. And here I am in this
Speaker 11: great city of Atlanta City here with you, Colaid, cooking
Speaker 11: some spaghetti with ground turkey.
Speaker 2: Did the economics change in your family when they moved
Speaker 2: to Atlanta?
Speaker 5: Also?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, now it did get better than in Chicago.
Speaker 4: We didn't have no money. Knoxville, we didn't have no money.
Speaker 11: But when we gave them Atlanta things, you know, got
Speaker 11: a lot better financially for my parents. So of course,
Speaker 11: you know that made a big difference.
Speaker 5: Were your parents in the industry in any capacity?
Speaker 11: No, No, but my uncle was, uh, the late Gray
Speaker 11: Stanley Bethel was. He was in the music business, and
Speaker 11: that was my first foray into the music business cause
Speaker 11: he used to take me to the different conventions, the
Speaker 11: Jack the Rapper conventions, br conventions, Impact, and I just
Speaker 11: fell in love with To be honest, I first fell
Speaker 11: in love with the glamory and the glitz of just
Speaker 11: being in the mix and being around him.
Speaker 4: He taught me a lot because he.
Speaker 11: Was in the industry for years, and he used to
Speaker 11: tell me, and I got to see it from myself
Speaker 11: that this fit is very fickle and phony, but you
Speaker 11: have to find something to keep you grounding.
Speaker 2: Lex And from poor minds is in the building. I'm
Speaker 2: really excited to have you both, and I'm more excited
Speaker 2: about what I'm about to eat.
Speaker 5: So what are you about to cook up?
Speaker 6: Okay, So today we're gonna be making some rowtail dip,
Speaker 6: which I feel like is like a staple in black family.
Speaker 9: It is.
Speaker 6: It really is, like we make it for the baby showers,
Speaker 6: football games, birthday parties, everything.
Speaker 12: Growing up.
Speaker 6: My mom used to always make these, my aunts, my
Speaker 6: uncles was at every family gathering.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've actually never had the rotail dip. Really really excited.
Speaker 2: I saw a bunch of cheese and guey stuff.
Speaker 5: Huh, and I was happy. I was happy. I'm with it.
Speaker 5: So what are all the ingredients in the rotail dip?
Speaker 10: So rotael is it's a cheese dip essentially, So you
Speaker 10: gotta have your velvey to cheese. You got your cream cheese.
Speaker 10: We have Italian sausage. You can use any kind of
Speaker 10: meat that you want to brown beef, but we.
Speaker 5: Use Italian and it's the Turkey Italian Italian sauce is.
Speaker 10: So we have onions, you know, whatever kind of dresses
Speaker 10: you like, So you kind of look at it as
Speaker 10: like a fancy kind of taco dip. So you really
Speaker 10: can throw whatever you want person in there. This is
Speaker 10: just what we like in ours.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like to use a few different cheeses. Some
Speaker 6: people just like to use just Belvita by itself. But
Speaker 6: I have cream cheese, Velveta and pepper jack cheese.
Speaker 5: Okay, see I don't know what that green pepper is
Speaker 5: called valpo. And then you have these what are these
Speaker 5: green ones?
Speaker 6: Green chili, green chilies and the tomatoes, and then that's tomatoes.
Speaker 5: Okay, are you cooking all of those ingredients? Yes, okay,
Speaker 5: well I'm gonna cook.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna actually like kind of well, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I'm probably not gonna saltate actually, but I'm just gonna
Speaker 6: put it all in once the cheese is melted.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm excited. So get to get to cook in
Speaker 2: even breakfast nothing.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's gonna.
Speaker 10: Be a good little line.
Speaker 5: It is.
Speaker 6: Okay, So I'm gonna cook the meat first, so let
Speaker 6: me go ahead and turn this on.
Speaker 2: Okay, man, I played y'all because usually I try to
Speaker 2: preheat the heaters before you guys start, So it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 10: Know, authentic the whole process. People being in the comments
Speaker 10: asking every little thing, well, what did you put this on?
Speaker 5: What is right? So now y'all can see they see
Speaker 5: it by stuff.
Speaker 10: It's on medium heat, y'all.
Speaker 6: So do we have any like butter or oil or
Speaker 6: cooking spray?
Speaker 5: You know what the most I have is that butter.
Speaker 3: Okay, this will works.
Speaker 5: It's so funny because I saw it and I said,
Speaker 5: they don't need butter.
Speaker 3: A little bit, just a little.
Speaker 10: Were from the South, we put we want the fattiest
Speaker 10: and everything.
Speaker 2: I live and die by butter. I go through like
Speaker 2: a stick every two days. Really, it's terrible.
Speaker 5: Did you ever go through a phase where you ate butter?
Speaker 2: My two year old is actively using butter like it's
Speaker 2: a snickers. Really, she like coming to kids and should
Speaker 2: be like butter. She dips your little fingers in it.
Speaker 2: She'll bite it like that's crazy. And then I'll see
Speaker 2: her and I have this face of like, and then
Speaker 2: she'll look at me.
Speaker 5: Like when I was younger.
Speaker 10: I got really really sick one day, and my mom
Speaker 10: and my sister they were so confused. And while I
Speaker 10: was sick, and then my mom went to the sink
Speaker 10: and she saw because I used to eat butter and
Speaker 10: rice together, you.
Speaker 5: Did, yes, And I had put like a whole stick
Speaker 5: of butter.
Speaker 10: And I was so sick. And she went to the
Speaker 10: sink and saw this bowl and it just had butter,
Speaker 10: this stick caked on the bottle. She's like, that's why
Speaker 10: your ass you can get from it. I mean, I
Speaker 10: guess because I ate so much. One city, like I
Speaker 10: just I was not feeling good.
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: I'm one of those parents like I give into everything
Speaker 2: my daughter does. So when she's like screaming for butter,
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what, just handed to it, I'm like,
Speaker 2: you ain't nothing else. So but I never let my
Speaker 2: friends hear that, because my friends be always checking my
Speaker 2: parents and like, yo, she running you, And I'll be like,
Speaker 2: so I.
Speaker 10: Be handling your baby a stick of butter is crazy.
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes I gotta do what I got, what you want,
Speaker 2: but I do it in silence.
Speaker 5: I've never confessed that to anyone. I'm sure, like, pick
Speaker 5: a butter in your purse? Just I really should?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 10: Nah, But I let her.
Speaker 5: I'll let her.
Speaker 2: I'll let her take off a little piece of butter,
Speaker 2: a little whatever is left, you know.
Speaker 5: But in my mind, you know, one of my other
Speaker 5: homegirls said that, I'm like, look, man, he don't eat nothing.
Speaker 5: At this point.
Speaker 2: If she wants donuts for breakfast, I'm with it, like
Speaker 2: calorie is a calorie because it's.
Speaker 10: Better than having right, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 6: I understand that it was a very peaky eater as
Speaker 6: a child, so I totally understand.
Speaker 3: But this is one of the things that I love.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was I was a skinny mini person, and
Speaker 2: I feel like this is God's way of punishing me.
Speaker 5: All the taxes my mom told.
Speaker 2: To try to get us to gain weight, and now
Speaker 2: I get to experience what it's like to watch your
Speaker 2: kid never eat. Yeah, but take me back to what
Speaker 2: was going on in the air of roadtel did.
Speaker 8: My parents came from Mexico and we always ate Metxican
Speaker 8: food every single day, and my mom was a homemaker.
Speaker 8: But when mom was in the kitchen cooking and we
Speaker 8: were hungry or would have you, we had to go
Speaker 8: to the fridge. She was left over what have you?
Speaker 8: But this right here is what we turned to. Like
Speaker 8: after school, we're hungry, can't wait till dinner? Is some
Speaker 8: cheap bread, the most non nutritious bread on the planet,
Speaker 8: white bread. There was a place called Weber's in San Fernando,
Speaker 8: and being with eleven kids my parents, it was like
Speaker 8: on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, they would sell the day old
Speaker 8: bread for ten cents a loaf, and they had bunches
Speaker 8: of it. So, for example, my mom would go with
Speaker 8: a buck a dollar and buy like ten loaves of bread.
Speaker 8: But that only lasts about a week. Yes, you got it,
Speaker 8: So we would buy Weber's Bread back then. I don't
Speaker 8: even know if they're still, you know, in business, but
Speaker 8: Wonder was the second choice, and then Skippy was. Luckily
Speaker 8: for us, we got to have a name brand peanut butter.
Speaker 8: I don't know why, because most everything in the house
Speaker 8: was the cheapest we could find.
Speaker 5: That's what my thea cereal.
Speaker 8: All invitation cereals. When the government was given the powdered
Speaker 8: milk and the government cheese. You never thought you would
Speaker 8: get tired of real cheese, but yeah, we got tired
Speaker 8: of it because they used to give it in big
Speaker 8: old blocks. But anyway, so here we are. But this
Speaker 8: is the one that is my favorite. This is something
Speaker 8: that my daughter made and it's a marmalade, a lemon marmalade.
Speaker 8: And my daughter cooks, and my mother's no longer with us.
Speaker 8: She was a homemaker. She cooked from scratch every day,
Speaker 8: and she actually would make a lot of things from scratch.
Speaker 8: She would in frascot you say it in Spanish. She
Speaker 8: would jar things, pickle this, and pickle that, and jar this.
Speaker 8: So she actually used to make some jelly once in
Speaker 8: a while. If we had all the ingredients, she'd get inspired.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna make some jelly strawberry what have you?
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 5: Were any of your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches just
Speaker 5: peanut butter and bread?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 2: I was nervous when Gabriella brought the big peanut butter
Speaker 2: and the wonderbread. I was like, oh my gosh, we're
Speaker 2: not gonna have jelly today. And then I was happy
Speaker 2: to see the jar of marmalade. I've never had this soul,
Speaker 2: not the peanut butter. I've never had the marmalade. So
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and start.
Speaker 5: Doing peanut butter and jelly, the og classic.
Speaker 8: All right, let's start with some bread.
Speaker 2: So I'm just curious, out of those eleven eleven of
Speaker 2: you guys, how many of you guys were boys?
Speaker 8: It was almost even as even as you can get.
Speaker 8: It was six girls, five boys. I'm the youngest. All
Speaker 8: the girls got all the brains and looks in the family,
Speaker 8: and us boys we had to kind of like deal
Speaker 8: with what we got. But no, I say that because
Speaker 8: I love my sisters. I love my brothers. But my
Speaker 8: sister used to help me with my math homework. I
Speaker 8: became an engineer, but back in those days. My sisters
Speaker 8: were born in the forties and fifties, so by the
Speaker 8: time they were graduating from high school, it was the
Speaker 8: sixties and society and even my parents went along with it,
Speaker 8: were convincing them that they should just get married and
Speaker 8: you get a husband who'll take care of you. My
Speaker 8: sisters could have all gone and got PhDs and things
Speaker 8: of that nature. So it really pains me to know
Speaker 8: that the person who helped me with my math helped
Speaker 8: me when I was struggling and I became an engineer,
Speaker 8: she didn't become an engineer and things like that.
Speaker 5: So your sisters essentially ended up.
Speaker 8: Well, no, look, they have a wonderful life. They have
Speaker 8: beautiful children, you know them and their husbands would go
Speaker 8: to work and they everybody was able to own a
Speaker 8: home on first generation. My generation is first generation college
Speaker 8: on both sides of my family. My mother and father
Speaker 8: are from Demastian Hali School Meeko, which is this little
Speaker 8: dirt town. When they were little boys and girls, there
Speaker 8: were no formal schools like we have here in the
Speaker 8: United States. When they got married, my father being twenty
Speaker 8: my mother being eighteen, they looked around and said, well,
Speaker 8: nothing's changed. If we want the next generation to have opportunities,
Speaker 8: we got to get out of here. So they came
Speaker 8: to California and then stayed here. You know, had us
Speaker 8: eleven kids until they passed away. So this is what
Speaker 8: we made for ourselves. My mom made a stack of
Speaker 8: homemade tortillas every single day, a big pot of beans
Speaker 8: every single day, made some fresh rice and something else.
Speaker 8: That was the traditional food in our household. It was
Speaker 8: a third dish. And then rice and beans and tortillas.
Speaker 8: That was a staple every day.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 5: And then was it like meat was the.
Speaker 8: Luxury of yes, exactly, that was the third dish. It
Speaker 8: was either some chicken or some.
Speaker 5: Ohated some kind.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Well the thing is, let me clarify. We never
Speaker 8: lacked for what we needed in our home. Our mother
Speaker 8: and father, my mom stayed at home. That was the deal.
Speaker 8: They got married, high tailed it over here to California,
Speaker 8: and my mother and father made a deal that my
Speaker 8: mom mom wouldn't work outside the home, she would stay
Speaker 8: home and be a homemaker, and my dad would work work, work,
Speaker 8: and my dad, his average week was a six day
Speaker 8: work week. And so my mom was an amazing cook,
Speaker 8: thank god. But she made large quantities of everything every day.
Speaker 8: But what we're eating here is what we used to
Speaker 8: make for ourselves as kids.
Speaker 2: Eleven kids, though, is like she I don't even think
Speaker 2: even if she sort of even like, even if we
Speaker 2: were intoday's times, if she wanted to go to work.
Speaker 2: Eleven kids, is you need one parent to stay right?
Speaker 4: Oh my god?
Speaker 8: Today a big family is you know, three four kids,
Speaker 8: and that's more than a handful. And you know, I
Speaker 8: constantly speak respectfully of my parents because I remember growing
Speaker 8: up there were some people that when we're in the supermarket,
Speaker 8: you know, there's three or four trailing my mom and
Speaker 8: we're sitting at the checking stand, and I could understand English.
Speaker 8: My mom and dad understood very very little English, and
Speaker 8: I could I could hear the words of disrespect that
Speaker 8: they spoke of my mom, like, you know, talking in
Speaker 8: English to the other checker, like, oh, can you believe
Speaker 8: how many kids or what have you? You know, they
Speaker 8: probably can't even afford them, and stuff like that. But
Speaker 8: that's not true. We never lacked for food. My parents
Speaker 8: bought a home in nineteen fifty five and raised the
Speaker 8: soul in that home until they passed away. So yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm very very protective of the image that people have.
Speaker 8: Immigrants come to this country and they have a bunch
Speaker 8: of kids, and those kids are a bunch of good
Speaker 8: for nothings or a bunch of troublemakers. N uh Not.
Speaker 8: One of us eleven kids growing up in Pacoima, not
Speaker 8: the you know, it's a low income community, a lot
Speaker 8: of beautiful families there. Not one of us ever ended
Speaker 8: up in a gang. Not one of us ever ended up,
Speaker 8: you know, in the backseat of a police car. So
Speaker 8: you know, to my parents, you know, and one of.
Speaker 2: You guys ended up, Yeah, changing a lot for the community.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, yes, I say this one once in a while.
Speaker 8: I speak truthfully about if you asked my brothers and
Speaker 8: sisters when they were you know, when I was like
Speaker 8: eight ten years old, and you asked them right down
Speaker 8: on a piece of paper, where do you think Tony's
Speaker 8: gonna end up? They probably would have said some not
Speaker 8: mean things, but accurate things like, I don't know, he's
Speaker 8: a big trouble maker, you know, he's I had the
Speaker 8: hottest temper of all my brothers and sisters. I was
Speaker 8: the one you could light me as like a match.
Speaker 8: I was the one that would bawl my fist up
Speaker 8: before I would think about what I'm gonna say. So
Speaker 8: God is good because they gave me ten older brothers
Speaker 8: and sisters to help keep me in line, and I
Speaker 8: needed every single one of them. They gave me two
Speaker 8: parents who were as strict as can be, so had
Speaker 8: I not had the upbringing that I was given and
Speaker 8: afforded by two amazing parents who were strict, ten brothers
Speaker 8: and sisters were like, Oh, you can't do that. I
Speaker 8: can't let you do that problem.
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