Comments on: Trivia: Refried Beans

By: Zeytoun

Zeytoun — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:29:10 +0000

-How about the rest of Latin America – is it “frijol” or “judías”?-

“habichuela” is pretty common among the cuban/puerto rican/dominican set.

as in:
“que tu quire papi? Lah habichuelah rojah o negrah?”
*s’s replaced with h sound to imitate accent

By: Zeytoun

Zeytoun — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:20:02 +0000

“I hate to correct the second spanish-based entry in a row… but refrito does indeed mean refried, or fried twice.”

If this were the correct definition in the circumstances, how come the recipe only calls for a single frying?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:08:49 +0000

And I, too, learn something new. Like the Spanish word for “bean” not being the same in Spain as it is in Mexico.

How about the rest of Latin America – is it “frijol” or “judías”?

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:24:08 +0000

@Pedro
“Again… focusing on the minutia.”

I live for minutia – so correct away.

By: Eugenio Martínez

Eugenio Martínez — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:35:34 +0000

Refrito de Judías.

Frijol is bean only in México. Is not used in Spain.

Actually Frijol is not bean, it´s green Bean.

In Spanish Spanish (I mean, the Spanish spoken in Spain*) Bean is said Alubias and Green Bean Judías, like female jewish.

By: Pudifoot

Pudifoot — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:00:16 +0000

yet again, neatorama makes me a little less stupid! yay!

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:03:44 +0000

I hate to correct the second spanish-based entry in a row… but refrito does indeed mean refried, or fried twice. To save face for the entry however, refreir, the origin of refrito, has three different meanings (according to the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (the officiators of the Spanish language)). One of them is to return to fry, another is to fry something well, and the third is to fry something too much. Again… focusing on the minutia.

By: Ames Tiedeman

Ames Tiedeman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:27:46 +0000

estapler:

Very funny!

By: estapler

estapler — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:02 +0000

“I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time.” -Mitch Hedberg