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Sweet and Stereotypical

December 30, 2005 by elenamary

A couple months ago I started eating fish on a regular basis and then this week I ate Chicken. I feel bad about it, guilty about it but it is so good. Whcih I know doesn’t make it right there are a lot of things that feel good, or that we like but we shouldn’t do.

Last night the new man made me dinner. It was terribley stereotypical and we both kept laughing about it. He made me Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato French Fries and Cool-Aid. I was in charge of the cool-aid. Having never made Cool-Aid before I asked him while I was reading the instructions, “How do you make cool-aid?” he responded “Do you mean how do black people make it or how do white people make it?”. I hate it when he says things like that because I feel like he is making fun of me for not knowing something because I am white so I got smart with him, “No, I want to know how Mexicans make it.”

He gave me a look, that look he gives me that is the ‘you assume way to much look’; “I asked you because white people measure it all out, black people start pouring until they say ‘opps I think that is too much’.”

I stole cool-aid once. I was maybe five-years-old. My mother never let us have cool-aid or soda and so I did what a lot of children might do; I took some of the packets from the store and stuffed them into my underwear. When we got in the van to drive home, I pulled the cool-aid out of my underwear and tossed the packets into the bags of groceries. When we got home my mom found the cool-aid packets and wondered if she had been charged for them but nope, they weren’t on the receipt. I remember her clearly saying “they must have given them as samples” and I got to have cool-aid that night.

So yes I had cool-aid for the first time in well over a decade, and I ate fried chicken and sweet potato fries. Very good.


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  1. James says:

    Pure Evil. You’ll do anything for a fix of the white stuff…. or red stuff. Whatever.

  2. oso says:

    Actually, white people put LSD in their Kool-Aid. How much longer are you going to call your no-longer-new man new?

  3. Damn now I want Kool-Aid

  4. In Mexico, as kids, we just skipped the water. We ate the cool-aid right out of the packet.

    Out toungues were colored for weeks!

    So now you know how to make it the Mexican way!

  5. EQ says:

    Meat is good for you…I have a friend that told me vegans are unhappy people..(lol). And to tell the truth, Im finding white people eat a lot of chicken too.

  6. I’m white and I’ve NEVER measured out sugar into Cool-Aid… No need to, b/c it’s just not possible to screw up cool aid, there is no such things as “too much” sugar.
    I’m amazed by your ability to cover up your cirme at age 5, you could have made a great thief!

  7. abdul-halim says:

    Just as long as you don’t use Jim Jones’ recipie, it is definitely hard to go wrong with kool-aid.

  8. Cristina Tzintzun says:

    Nena I can´ñt believe you ate Chicken…que mala …pobre pollito..recuerda que somos luchando por algo mas profundo que solo nuestra libertad…pero algo que deveras es digno y que es una libertad…para la mujer, gay, pobre, persona de color,.,,,y los animales.
    I feel sad you are chicken :(

  9. cindylu says:

    We never had Kool-Aid at home, so I think I might have been a little lost if I had to make it too.

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