Guessing What These US Southwestern Words Mean

[@rlevitta]

A snowbird is not just a person who moves south. It's a person, commonly retired, that lives in the north in the warm months and in Florida (or other warm spots) in the winter. The term references migratory birds that do the same thing.

[@mayloo2137]

Canadians (especially from Ontario and Quebec) who fly to southern parts like Florida and Arizona for the winter are usually referred to as snowbirds.

[@neeleynonea]

@@mayloo2137 living in Phoenix Arizona. More Americans than Canadians are snowbirds.

[@SherriLyle80s]

Yeah we use that term a lot here in Florida. There is an RV park with a bunch of Canadians just a mile down the road from me.

[@deed5811]

Lots of New Yorkers are snowbirds.

[@skylx0812]

...aaaaand Who hop into massive winnebegos with another vehicle hitched up behind it and slow mountain traffic to a crawl. Try navigating the twisting, winding Salt River Canyon highway behind a convoy of snowbirds.

[@claytonhollowell4488]

Missing the fact that Posole requires hominy (nixtamalized corn kernels), it's not Posole without it (the word actually refers to the corn).

[@joshjones6072]

Yes, it needs hominy :) I was saying the same thing haha

[@coyotech55]

@@joshjones6072 Yeah, I pointed that out too. It's kind of like a hotdog with only a bun, otherwise - to put it in a Chicago context.

[@cbailey4322]

Live in Arizona and it seems we use the word “wash” as much as arroyo to describe a dried riverbed. Of course with rains - usually thunderstorms - it will become a stream for a few days.

[@raymondholguin7272]

I wouldn't call it a "stream" because when they run, THEY RUN! And it's only going to run for hours, rarely days.

[@rustymustard7798]

Yeah, rarely called arroyo, almost always a wash.

[@billolsen4360]

Went to high school with a guy named Joe Arroyo, never known anyone else with that last name.

[@gabriellavedier9650]

If it stays dry, it's a wadi, but I lived in AZ long enough to realize that, amazingly, it's not really that dry.

[@rustymustard7798]

​@@gabriellavedier9650 I've lived in AZ for almost 30 years now and LAST WEEK i just heard someone use the term 'arroyo' for the first time when talking about a wash, only other places i've heard it is the internet and places with arroyo in the place name. Same with wadi, except i've heard that used before. But the thing is, EVERY TIME i hear it it's from a tourist or oblivious noob gringo who read it on the internet and thinks it sounds fancier than wash or gulch. But as far as the common term for such a geographical feature it's wash or gulch. Either like EVERY native Arizonian i know is saying it wrong, many of which have no internet in rural areas, or rando white people with better internet than us who maybe ate a taco once are just sharing 'facts' that aren't exactly true. It's like if people in Wisconsin or Texas started calling a Philly cheesesteak 'greasy meatbread' and told everyone on the internet that's what they're called on the street in Philly, even though i'm sure nobody has ever really called it that. Most people will just not bother fact checking something so trivial, bu there will end up being a certain percentage of people who will believe it.

[@davidray6962]

I once drove through the town of Hatch during chili season - you can smell the town for dozens of miles before you can see it. Little chili roasting stands are set up all over the place.

[@snakelite61]

In New Mexico it's spelled chile, not chili.

[@davidray6962]

@@snakelite61 In Chile, it's spelled "A nadie le importa."

[@O2life]

@@davidray6962 but in NM a toda la gente le importa.

[@fakereality96]

@@O2life Chili if you're from Colorado. ; )

[@rick420buzz]

@@fakereality96 Colorado native here, I know it as 'chile' for the pepper, and 'chili' for the stew dish. Pueblo chile > Hatch chile.

[@Geniusinventor]

Can we all take a minute to appreciate the work this man is doing to educate us. Thank you very much.

[@sassytbc7923]

AND HE IS DOING IT WITH HUMOR..

[@jimgreen5788]

Woo! Woo! Hoohah! All kidding aside, he does do a great job, and does a lot of research beforehand, which many vloggers don't mess with, thus making it abundantly obvious that they didn't bother to check a website such as Wikipedia for proper pronunciations, which drives me up the wall.

[@randalllaue4042]

He’s been here long enough to know this. Move on. There are lots of other places, educate them.

[@karensutton1792]

I’m from the north east. Only knew adobe. Thanks for the education.

[@The_Dudester]

“Recently, Lawrence was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off. The original person called in sick at the last moment and Lawrence happened to be standing there at the judge’s table, asking for directions to the Coors Light truck, when the call came in… I was assured by the other two judges (Native New Mexicans) that the chili wouldn’t be all that spicy; and, besides, they told me I could have free beer during the tasting, so Lawrence accepted and became Judge 3.” Here are the scorecard notes from the event: CHILI # 1 - MIKE’S MANIAC MONSTER CHILI Judge # 1 - A little too heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick. Judge # 2 - Nice, smooth tomato flavor. Very mild. Judge # 3 (Lawrence) - Holy crap, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway. Took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope that’s the worst one. These New Mexicans are crazy. CHILI # 2 - EL RANCHO’S AFTERBURNER CHILI Judge # 1 - Smoky, with a hint of pork. Slight jalapeno tang. Judge # 2 - Exciting BBQ flavor, needs more peppers to be taken seriously. Judge # 3 - Keep this out of the reach of children. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to taste besides pain. I had to wave off two people who wanted to give me the Heimlich maneuver. They had to rush in more beer when they saw the look on my face. CHILI # 3 - ALFREDO’S FAMOUS BURN DOWN THE BARN CHILI Judge # 1 - Excellent firehouse chili. Great kick. Judge # 2 - A bit salty, good use of peppers. Judge # 3 - Call the EPA. I’ve located a uranium spill. My nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. Everyone knows the routine by now. Get me more beer before I ignite. Barmaid pounded me on the back, now my backbone is in the front part of my chest. I’m getting red-faced from all of the beer. CHILI # 4=2 0- BUBBA’S BLACK MAGIC Judge # 1 - Black bean chili with almost no spice. Disappointing. Judge # 2 - Hint of lime in the black beans. Good side dish for fish or other mild foods, not much of a chili. Judge # 3 - I felt something scraping across my tongue, but was unable to taste it. Is it possible to burn out taste buds? Sally, the beer maid, was standing behind me with fresh refills. This 300 lb. Woman is starting to look HOT … Just like this nuclear waste I’m eating! Is chili an aphrodisiac? CHILI # 5 - LISA’S LEGAL LIP REMOVER Judge # 1 - Meaty, strong chili. Jalapeno peppers freshly ground, adding considerable kick. Very impressive. Judge # 2 - Chili using shredded beef, could use more tomato. Must admit the jalapeno peppers make a strong statement. Judge # 3 - My ears are ringing, sweat is pouring off my forehead and I can no longer focus my eyes. I farted, and four people behind me needed paramedics. The contestant seemed offended when I told her that her chili had given me brain damage. Sally saved my tongue from bleeding by pouring beer directly on it from the pitcher. I wonder if I’m burning my lips off. It really ticks me off that the other judges asked me to stop screaming. CHILI # 6 - VARGA’S VERY VEGETARIAN VARIETY Judge # 1 - Thin yet bold vegetarian variety chili. Good balance of spices and peppers. Judge # 2 - The best yet. Aggressive use of peppers, onions, garlic. Superb. Judge # 3 - My intestines are now a straight pipe filled with gaseous, sulfuric flames. I crapped on myself when I farted, and I’m worried it will eat through the chair. No one seems inclined to stand behind me except that Sally. Can’t feel my lips anymore. I need to wipe my butt with a snow cone. CHILI # 7 - SUSAN’S SCREAMING SENSATION CHILI Judge # 1 - A mediocre chili with too much reliance on canned peppers. Judge # 2 - Ho hum, tastes as if the chef literally threw in a can of chili peppers at the last moment **I should take note that I am worried about Judge # 3. He appears to be in a bit of distress as he is cursing uncontrollably. Judge # 3 - You could put a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn’t feel a thing. I’ve lost sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water. My shirt is covered with chili, which slid unnoticed out of my mouth. My pants are full of lava to match my shirt. At least during the autopsy, they’ll know what killed me. I’ve decided to stop breathing. It’s too painful. I’m not getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I’ll just suck it in through the 4-inch hole in my stomach. CHILI # 8 - BIG TOM’S TOENAIL CURLING CHILI Judge # 1 - The perfect ending, this is a nice blend chili. Not too bold but spicy enough to declare its existence. Judge # 2 - This final entry is a good, balanced chili. Neither mild nor hot. Sorry to see that most of it was lost when Judge # 3 farted, passed out, fell over and pulled the chili pot down on top of himself. Not sure if he’s going to make it. Poor fella, wonder how he’d have reacted to really hot chili? Judge # 3 - No report.

[@lizlee6290]

LOL and applause, applause!

[@matthewgarrison-perkins5377]

Thank you for this. Over 5 mins now and I'm still smiling, thats a record for the decade.

[@pattimaska4124]

Oh, God. My stomach hurts from laughing. My eyes are swimming in tears. Bravo!

[@richardcandelaria8043]

Ha! 😆😂🤣

[@toodlescae]

😂🤣😂🤣 literally me. I laughed till I cried.

[@57kwest]

Fun fact: Ricky Martin started his musical career in a boy band named Menudo when he was 12

[@ladybetty]

The dictionary definition/translation of menudo is "small change" or pocket change. Weird, isn't it?

[@57kwest]

@@ladybetty that's how my Puerto Rican friends used to use it when I was a kid. Tu tienes menudo? Do you have any change?

[@ladybetty]

@@57kwest HAHA! That's awesome! I'm Puerto Rican from NYC, currently living in SoCal, so yeah! It was always normal to say "menudo" and mean change. 😆

[@J_Squatch]

Growing up in Yuma, AZ, we got very used to seeing snowbirds. Typically, they are retired couples who spend the winter in warmer areas like AZ and return north for the summer. They notoriously drive RV's or SUV's well bellow speed limit and cause traffic jams, especially around shopping malls and membership bulk stores like Costco or Sam's Club. Yuma had several RV/ trailer parks that looked like a ghost town half the year and then be absolutely packed the rest of it.

[@coleparker]

Yes and these Snowbirds are in my town Ridgecrest Ca.

[@autosadist]

Our snowbirds in Florida are like this, but they're flooring it and cutting you off while pulling boats with decals of buxom mermaids along instead.

[@duncanadelaide4054]

Yo I also grew up in Yuma lol But since when is there a CostCo?

[@J_Squatch]

@@duncanadelaide4054 there's a Sams club near the highway 95 and the Interstate 8 split. I used costco as an example of a membership store cause more people are familiar with it.

[@Chahlie]

Many years ago my Grandma used to winter in Yuma. She seemed to have an amazing social life down there! Here on the Canadian west coast we have another form of snowbird- the 'polyester prairie people' :)

[@you_can_call_me_T]

Guys, let's try to always remember to show Lawrence love. I subscribe to a couple of British reaction channels, and sometimes I see his stuff on their channels before I even see a notification about his original post. I always make a point to watch it here first and like/comment. I enjoy reaction channels, but they are kind of the bottom feeders of KZbin, making money off of other people's hard work. So let's always be sure Lawrence reaps the benefits of his labor before anyone else does.

[@LindaC616]

Watch very few reaction channels, agree. I watch a couple that mix things up, with reactions thrown in, but avoid most of the reactions

[@kurtinfl]

Hoodoo is also used in the South to refer to a sort of folk magic/medicine that is similar to old fashioned witchcraft/spirituality stemming from African traditions.

[@rhyta5042]

The picture Lawrence put up was from Bryce Canyon National Park and hoodoos are all over that area. Being from Utah I recognized it immediately. My favorite National Park🙂 The word is probably is more related to voodoo and not Spanish influenced.

[@elissahunt]

I live in New Mexico (though I mostly grew up in Arizona) and did not find these words at all mysterious. As far as chile is concerned, New Mexico's "official state question" is "Red or Green?"-- a reference to the ubiquitous question servers ask when you order anything with chile in it (which, in NM, tends to be almost anything on the menu even if you're not in a "Mexican" restaurant). 🌶

[@jirafstudio]

If you want both red and green chile, you order Christmas. And no, you can’t tell the heat of the chile by the color. Either one could be hotter.

[@farmergiles1065]

Having lived in New Mexico for about 18 months at one time, I'd hazard that "chile" there very often implies the presence of the jalapeno pepper. The green pepper is less ripe and therefore naturally hotter because the acids are more concentrated. The red is more ripe and therefore sweeter because the plant sugars have been given more time to develop. It's true that either could be hotter in a given recipe, because of intentional variations in food preparation. My experience was that red was often the milder version, however.

[@katmurphy6634]

In Albuquerque, where I lived for 15 years, they automatically add green chili onto the top of your burger….whether you ask for it or not…..I found it a bit surprising at first but quickly learned to love it

[@coyotech55]

I lived mostly in New Mexico, and more recently in SE Arizona. So many of these things are everyday words for me, too.

[@melodycuthbert4840]

I like the red/orange/yellow bell peppers better than the green ones because they have more flavor. The green bell peppers just taste….green? Sort of like blue popsicles don’t really have a flavor they just taste blue.

[@tomhalla426]

That was possibly the most Englisj pronunciation of “chiltepin” possible.

[@lolo_bean_]

New Mexico here. The ultimate pozole (posole) question: red, white, or green? Also hatch green chile's are amazing and literally are included in EVERYTHING here in New Mexico. Also also, chiltepin is chill-te-peen. Adorable little chiles that have a special little grinder made of two block of wood, where one piece has a piston and you simply crush the chiltepin and the flakes come out a hole in the other wood block.

[@billolsen4360]

I talk to vegans who've never heard of pine nuts. Best vegan protein ever.

[@AtomicAgePictures]

I have to back Laurie Martin up on this one, as a Phoenix native of some 55 years, I never heard the word Haboob before about the mid 90s. We just called, and still do call, them dust storms. The only people wo seriously call the haboobs are tv weather people from somewhere else.

[@rappmasterdugg6825]

I was in Amman, Jordan about 15 years ago and they have convenience storms named Haboob. As a Phoenix resident I hadn't heard that word until about that same time.

[@firestorm3050-]

Not to comment late, but I was born in Phoenix and they were always dust storms until I was in late high school. I remember there was one news episode during the summer where the news casters were telling us that haboob was apparently the new name for these storms. They were debating what the word meant and sounded like to them. To childhood me, it seemed like a term that was forced on us from the outside and not one we used ourselves. But its gone on long enough that we recognize the word now and sometimes hear other people use it. Kind of like Squaw Peak vs Picacho Peak.

[@OMGitsaClaire]

In the Southeastern US, we also use “hoodoo” but we use it in reference to wandering evil spirits or ghosts. A synonym would be “haint”. It’s the kind of thing where if your dog wakes up from a dead sleep and barks for no apparent reason, you might ask them if they heard a hoodoo. It’s even used in the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Born on the Bayou” in almost that exact context.

[@amandalynch9567]

Hoodoo is also a cousin of voodoo. Hoodoo incorporates the use of plants for poisons and black magic.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@amandalynch9567 They're both descendants of the same Haitian practices.

[@donnaj9964]

We have a ton of hoodoos in Utah--in Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks, Goblin Valley...I could go on, but come and see for yourself! We also have lots of mesas--and remember: a mesa is a butte on steroids.

[@coyotech55]

Yes, I've heard the rock outcrops called hoodoos, but mostly I've heard the word used the way you describe. Related to voodoo, I suppose. Probably brought over from the South.

[@memarti002]

New Mexico here! Pozole (posole around my area) is delicious. We typically make it around Christmas in my family but it's a pretty common dish year-round. Yum. If you ever get the chance, try it!

[@dustingreen9075]

Yes, posole here in southern AZ.

[@kaldo_kaldo]

Wow, an entire US state in the comment section

[@tawnyprovince-ward2353]

I’m Oklahoma with many a taquerias in my area hell yes it is soo damn yummy.

[@elultimo102]

I'm not sure of the spelling, but a "pozolador" was a term for what they called the "soup maker." This was the man in charge of disposing of the bodies of drug cartel murder victims in lime or lye filled oil drums.

[@Sunset553]

@@elultimo102 omg

[@babs3241]

Arroyos are so common here in NM that I forgot that I didn't know the word for them before I came here. In the city, they're often lined with cement to stabilize them (I guess), so there are a lot of random concrete lined ditches around the city, all of them named as if they were streams or creeks, even though about 95% of the time, there's nothing in them. They always look pointless until there's rain or snowmelt in the mountains, then they run like fast creeks down to the river.

[@narr0wm1nd49]

We would also call them a "wash" or a "dry wash"

[@TheBLGL]

I live in NM, too, and I immediately thought of the cement-lined ones you’re talking about.,

[@memarti002]

Fellow New Mexican. I thought of the concrete ones too. They do look pointless empty, but when monsoon hits... wow! Sadly people get used to walking, playing, exploring in them. I think some of our homeless sleep in them. We usually lose people to drowning because of the flash floods. 😥

[@karenustach5655]

Growing up in CA we called an arroyo a wash. But I am not sure if that was a family thing, or what everyone called them there

[@desertrose0027]

I grew up in NM, and the adage was always never play in the arroyos. Flash floods happen FAST and children have been killed in them.

[@WizardToby]

Haboobs are common in Arizona during Monsoon season (Haboob and Monsoon are both Arabic words) when the desert gets a higher chance for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms often have a downdraft wind that can cause a Haboob dust storm on the outflow boundary of the winds. The rain from these storms also can fill up the Arroyos with water.

[@dr.westwood]

Yes. People talk about Arizona and the "dry heat". I often ask, "have you ever been to Arizona in the hottest parts of the summer during monsoon season like July and August? It's super humid and we get torrential rainstorms that last about 15 to 20 minutes. Boiling water falling from the sky." LOL

[@coyotech55]

Makes sense. You commonly get the dust storm and high wind before a big rain in the summer. In Hawaii it's called monsoon season, too. I guess the rainy season is monsoon all over the world!

[@hgman3920]

I love how you still call the tallest building in Chicago the Sears Tower, just like a native Chicagoian, even though the official name is the Willis Tower (which is something nobody calls it)

[@LindaC616]

Lol, who's Willis? 😄

[@ohioalphornmusicalsawman2474]

Whachoo talkin' 'bout Willis?

[@Seej1982]

Same goes for Comiskey Park, not Guaranteed Rate Field as it's currently titled. US Cellular Field wasn't any better either.

[@lauriemartin490]

I live in Phoenix and have definitely experienced many haboobs. We used to just call them dust storms, but I think the term haboob was imported to the southwest around the time of the first Gulf War in the 1990s. Also, pozole is just the perfect comfort food, and menudo is the perfect hangover food. If you find yourself in a good Mexican restaurant and see either one of them on the menu, you should try them. Also, also, menudo is delicious even if you're not hungover.😂

[@Markle2k]

If somebody tried to feed me tripe soup (menudo) while I was hungover, you wouldn't call it a remedy. That would qualify for a technicolor yawn. Pozole and Albondigas (esp with lamb), that's more like it. Epazote makes everything better even if it looks like something you might find growing in the cracks in a sidewalk.

[@garyarnett1220]

@@Markle2k Menudo is excellent when prepared right , and yes, it's good for hangovers, Used to have a chicano co worker who made a pot every Sunday morning. Sure you see why, and we all enjoyed it.

[@kavemanthewoodbutcher]

Red over white menudo. Full stop. Also haboob didn't start til after the 9/11 vets came home. Thats when that happened.

[@cherylhaynes3960]

I think that’s right about Haboobs. While they aren’t common in Yuma, when I moved to Glendale, we just called them sandstorms, and then suddenly, they were called haboobs. And umm no on Menudo. The food and the music group! 🤓

[@MigGa-yu5xv]

The greater part of my life was spent in Los Angeles and the only word I didn't get was hoodoo. I did experience one of those sandstorms and agree, haboob is a word I only heard about in the last 10-15 years. Did you ever talk about the North American monsoon in one of your videos? As a kid, I never liked menudo and always went for the pozole. I always loved the hominy and would add a lot of salt and lime/lemon juice. Now as a grown up I can eat either one and add more chili and oregano. Tripe soup is pretty widespread. Ever heard of flaki? Or just go to a Mexican restaurant and try some with some corn tortillas. And since no one else has mentioned it, Menudo was also that awful boy band that Ricky Martin was in.

[@cjhansen6618]

My house was built in 1875 and almost all of the original walls are built with Adobe. And we get Snowbirds all the time. It's mostly retired couples. They come in about September to November and they head back north in like April/May before we start getting into triple degree digits for our summer months.

[@bluebonnet1014]

I’m from Texas and I’ve heard a few of these words but always interested in learning new words especially when I can be entertained at the same time. 🙂

[@elchicharron9503]

Texas isn't the southwest. :) Unless you're in El Paso, I'll give that town a pass.

[@Chesemiser]

@@elchicharron9503 im from Utah and I didn't know what any of these meant other than a butte and mesa

[@outrageddeer2101]

@@elchicharron9503 ah El Paso a city that should be in NM but it will never admit it.

[@wcbfg]

I didn't grow up in the US, but after living in New Mexico for 10+ years, I knew about half of these words. Hatch chile is such an integral part of the food here. Hatch is actually known as the chile capital of the world, and hosts an annual chile festival.

[@dorismidge8762]

Being a native New Mexican, I’d heard several of these words and was proud to see Hatch get a shoutout. Green chile goes on just about everything here…breakfast, lunch, and dinner, even snacks… green chile beef jerky and green chile popcorn are delicious! Easy to forget that the rest of the country does not indulge in green chile the way that we do… I’ll never forget going to a pizza place in Phoenix Arizona and seeing green chile on their menu… We ordered that for our pizza and when we got our pizza it was actually green bell peppers! Not what I want on a pizza, lol! Once, my parents forgot where they were when ordering at a McDonald’s and asked for green chile on their hamburgers… the lady told them that the only thing they had that was green for hamburgers were the pickles… It’s an acquired taste, but almost addictive when you get used to it!

[@h8today]

Green Chili is pretty huge in Colorado as well.

[@TheBLGL]

Can tell you’re really New Mexican cause you spelled Hatch green chile correctly. Unlike the Coloradan commenter, lol.

[@memarti002]

Lol I will always be loyal to my NM green chile. Co chili is good too, but I will always consider NM the chile capital.

[@coleparker]

Being a Southern Californian I love green chiles and jalapenos

[@kaleidoscope_adventures]

Red, green or Christmas lol

[@brenlane9847]

Lawrence, I burst out laughing at what you thought Hatch Chili was. I live in Colorado and those chilies are simply the best. You should try smothered fried or scrambled eggs in green pork chili it's delicious! P.S. You had me stumped a few of them. :-)

[@O2life]

I'm told it's always a chile in NM, never a chili, if you're talking about the pepper or any of its derivatives (chile sauce, chile oil, chile powder....)

[@itsme-rt7nz]

@@O2life You are correct. Chili is the Tex-Mex spicy hot meat and beans. Chile is the vegetable. The state question in NM is "Red or Green?" Be prepared to answer that question when ordering a meal in a New Mexican restaurant. An alternate answer is "Christmas" which is a combo of both.

[@ji3194]

Its Chile, I am a native New Mexican. Chili is the Tex mex dish

[@akakat]

Pretty sure in Colorado we’re supposed to be rivals and say Pueblo chiles are best, but secretly we all know Hatch wins.

[@RJFerret]

New Englander here, from the opposite corner, where snowbird was learned as a kid decades ago as my grandparents were snowbirds heading to Florida every autumn and back each spring. So I wouldn't have thought of it as a regional word as much as an Americanism.

[@billolsen4360]

I like the way you people pronounce "Lawyer"

[@fionam3554]

not even an Americanism - you have Canadians who winter in Florida....

[@StarWarsomania]

I feel like it is very regional - BUT both very northern and very southern regions, while missing the middle. It’s used in the northern areas where snowbirds spend the summer, and used in the southern areas where snowbirds spend the winter, but not in the flyover area in between.

[@EduardQualls]

"Arroyo seco" is a street name used pretentiously in Southwestern new-build suburbs. Most of the residents along those will not realize that it merely means "dry gulch." (As often seen in _Yosemite Sam_ cartoons.) BTW, "chiltepin" has the accent on its first syllable.

[@billolsen4360]

We got a whole freeway in named that in Los Angeles.

[@nickyshark8639]

You mean the freeway that's named after the natural river historically called the Arroy Seco? The river has been there since Los Angeles was founded. Because it's main source of water was snow melt, it usually looks like the tiniest trickle, but the thing used to turn into a river during rain and snow melt .-. Granted, some white people decided that freeways name of the 110 wasn't good enough and had to name the Arroy Seco Parkway, so point taken.

[@vitacilina555]

Pozole is absolute Bliss in a Bowl. There's a large Mexican Community in Chicago, you can probably get some by asking around a bit in a Mexican Grocery store.

[@eringalin2075]

Absolutely. Head over to Pilsen. Unfortunately I heard Nuevo Leon burned down a few years ago.

[@Phlucious]

Pozole was a huge New Years tradition in the Albuquerque area when I lived in New Mexico. I got the impression it was a widespread tradition straight from Mexico, just like tamales on Christmas.

[@coyotech55]

And menudo for the crudo.

[@DonP_is_lostagain]

As a Texan, I've heard most of these, but hoodoo caught me by surprise. Elsewhere, it's generally a term for a form of witchery. Captured in a song as well, "Why don't you do that hoodoo that you do so well?". Good job overall though!

[@LindaC616]

That's where my mind went (Northerner here)

[@hello-cn5nh]

Hoodoo is just Louisiana Voodoo

[@tangobravo168]

I live in New Mexico and you did pretty darn good! And your video made me hungry for all sorts of our foods. :)

[@CAPNMAC82]

"Pozole" is Mexican Spanish for Hominy corn. It's also the name of the meat stew which is fortified by adding hominy.

[@batdad24]

I am a life long resident of New Mexico. My father's side of the family is Colonial Spanish. So we've been here awhile. In the area that I live a mesa can be used to describe any areas of flat terrain. (Mesa literally means table.) But I have heard the word, "Llano" used in other parts of the state. Which to my understanding means plains or prairies. So same thing more or less.

[@peterzavon3012]

Llano is Spanish for "plain" so you might say a mesa is a steep mountain or hill with a llano on top.

[@paulamedlock4988]

I live in Tucson, Arizona, and know ALL of those words. Great job attempting to figure out the meanings. I enjoy your channel!

[@katepennant5829]

Fellow Tucsonan here! 👋

[@jamescooley5744]

@@katepennant5829 And Tucson is the birthplace of the chimichanga (deep fried burrito)

[@glazdarklee1683]

I absolutely love your fearless approach to unfamiliar words. Even those that do not mean what you think they do, really ought to.

[@saundrajohnson1571]

Having lived in NM for many years, and raised by a woman who was an excellent cook (among many other things), I had this dish many times and had to incorporate it into my own repertoire. In our case, it was called POSOLE, and was a spicy soup/stew made predominately from pork and hominy, of all things. Our version also contains no green chili or jalapeños, but is enhanced with dried red chilies. 🌶 Incidentally, Hatch green chili can be (or in my case, IS) highly addictive. It has a flavor like nothing you’ve ever tasted, and can enhance more dishes than you could even imagine. Try it. You may well like it. Warning: the chili can go from bland - I mean mild, to really, really spicy, so be forewarned.

[@Ni999]

Pork, hominy, and red is the best posole!

[@TheBLGL]

New Mexicans spell it chile: Hatch green chile, red chile.

[@maryphibbs8404]

Hatch red and green chile is famous throughout the state of NM. Every waitress in any restaurant in the state will ask “red or green” when you order a meal.

[@talltulip]

Thanks for the bit about Hatch chiles. I've never had them, but have always wondered why the locals go nuts when the Hatch chiles finally arrive. I will check them out this year.

[@Ni999]

@@talltulip There are variants of Hatch chile and you don't want to miss the most popular one - Big Jims - named after the farmer that cultivated them. That said, they are all good so you can't go wrong.

[@kcvail7409]

The geological formations of the southwest are incredible. Get an annual national park pass and go exploring, it is well worth it. Norteno bands usually have an accordion. Sometimes if you hear it at low volume or from a distance you might mistake some of it for polka music until the full impact hits. I am from one of the states that was pink on the map.

[@gali01992]

I'm glad I'm old. I bought the senior pass that will last the rest of my life and I'm constantly taking friends to the Grand Canyon for free.

[@lainiwakura1776]

I've always known Norteno bands as Mariachi.

[@ronsparks7887]

Arches National Park in Utah has many truly astounding hoodoos, as well as arches and other amazing formations. Also, Goblin Valley State Park, also in Utah, has very impressive hoodoos.

[@Isolder74]

@@ronsparks7887 Just look and don’t touch.

[@SMartinTX]

I think in Texas, Norteno music is called Tejano. Tejano music pretty much fits the description of Norteno.

[@blr.intheusa]

Californian here. My Mexican mother-in-law’s pozole is the preeminent comfort food! So good… The defining ingredient is maize (a sort of swollen, cracked corn kernel). Also, menudo is the Spanish word for “often.” Another Mexican soup I could eat, well, often! Got 11 out of 13!

[@billolsen4360]

Wasn't Menudo a rock band that was managed by Jose Menendez?

[@paulaschroen3954]

Oregon, there is a Hoodoo ski place, maybe because of terrain. But for some reason I thought Hoodoo meant like a jinx.

[@Justin_W]

I lived in Phoenix for over 10 years, and while I've heard the word Haboob, most people will just say "Dust storm". I always thought it was a funny word, and totally forgot about it. Thanks!

[@jackielinde7568]

We've been calling them dust storms a lot longer than Haboob. It's a middle eastern word we borrowed/stole about 20 years ago. So, while all the weather forecasters use Haboob, people who lived here a lot longer still call them dust storms.

[@Justin_W]

@@jackielinde7568 Yeah, I lived there from the early 90s to the early 2000s. I never heard anyone outside of a weather forecaster use the word Haboob.

[@johnhouchins3156]

"Haboob" is a legacy of the Gulf war veterans. They brought it home with them. Not nearly used as much as 'dust storm', but its use is growing.

[@duncanadelaide4054]

Slightly missing connotation regarding buttes vs. mesas - mesa comes from the Spanish word for table, and is indicative of a tableland or plateau with escarpments on all sides, whereas a butte is a standalone thing, with a smaller top. A butte is more similar to a mountain whereas a mesa is more similar to a flatland that abruptly drops off on all sides. I realize this isn't the greatest explanation but, to simplify, if you could concievably build a sizable town on top, it's a mesa, whereas if attempting to build a town on top would be like trying to build a town on the peak of a mountain, it's more likely a butte.

[@talltulip]

I was visiting my parents in Phoenix AZ in 2011 around July 4th, and experienced the haboob that occurred at that time. Let me tell you... It was really something. It was midday, and it became as dark as nighttime. The streetlights were even triggered to come on due to the low light level. Not to mention the layer of dust all over everything afterward. I went out into it to film it, and it seemed so weird that the wind was hot, as I'd expected it to feel cold (for some reason). Once in a lifetime experience.

[@coyotech55]

Every year or two experience if you stick around 🙂

[@shannonessig5959]

I'm in California, and I have heard all of the words you've mentioned in this series. Even those pertaining to things I have never experienced. By the by, I bought a pack of Chiltepin seeds, which were marketed as super rare. There were supposed to be 15 seeds in the $2 pack. There were only 5. And only one had successful germination. I daily watch that one seedling lovingly, like a hawk. A mother hawk. I'm going to name the seedling Laurence. My God, Laurence. I hope you live!

[@c.e.simmons569]

LOL

[@pmbluemoon]

"When eggs hatch, you get a chicken!" I loved the way you said that! Thank you so much for putting a smile on my face today and giving me a few good belly laughs, it's much appreciated 👍

[@christyt3949]

Unless you live here in Arizona. When eggs hatch, you can get lizards, rattlesnakes, and so on, not just chickens.

[@pmbluemoon]

@@christyt3949 OMG that would freak me out! lol I never thought about that part 😱

[@billolsen4360]

I can't decide if that's a funny joke or just a fowl pun.

[@MarquezSchoolgirl64]

You did a terrific job! Yes, we do use those words in the southwest!

[@finkijlua4851]

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[@just1giuleejae1234]

I live in the desert, Southern part of Utah, and our area attracts many 'Snowbirds' every year. I can vouch that this exists. And I just wanted to say how wonderful it is to see how well you research our country. I appreciate the information because I'm learning in some cases too. 😀

[@allisk8001]

I live in Northern Utah, and my family never did it, but I always found it weird that so many people go to St George for trips so often. Maybe I just don't understand the appeal?? Never really been one for travelling though.

[@just1giuleejae1234]

@@allisk8001 Snowbirds are people who take up residence here for 6 months out of the year. Not just for casual trips. It's mostly the 65+ crowd that comes for the Winter months. Because it's warmer here. It's harder for the elderly to get around in the snow. And most can't handle the extreme cold temps in the North. Plus, St. George has changed a lot in the last 10 yrs. There's lots to do here now.

[@allisk8001]

@@just1giuleejae1234 Yeah, I realize that. But as a kid, everyone was always going to St George and I just didn't understand why. I'd gone there for a camping trip with cousins once. My aunt had picked the location. It was so miserably hot my family stayed in a hotel (what a "camping" experience). Goblin Valley was fun though.

[@just1giuleejae1234]

@@allisk8001 Gotcha! 👍🏻🙂

[@donnaj9964]

@@allisk8001 And Goblin Valley is full of hoodoos! Small world...

[@jennakent495]

I have had pozole in Chicago when I lived there about 20 years ago from a family that was second generation Mexican-American. It was nice. Very good food.

[@nataliethomas444]

You really should make a point of trying some pozole sometime Lawrence. In my opinion, it’s the best Mexican dish. And I’m sure you can find a Mexican restaurant near you that serves it.

[@Bacopa68]

Great recommendation. And if they don't have it, try caldo instead. Best chicken soup ever.

[@paultiki9968]

I used to work in a Mexican restaurant and every once in a while the owner would bring Abuela up from Juarez. She invariably would take over the restaurant kitchen on Sunday morning and make a huge pot of Posole. Sooo good

[@blr.intheusa]

Chicago has some amazing hole-in-the-wall Mexican food! Try La Largatija on South Ashland. They have amazing Chile Relleños, better than my Mexican mother-in-law’s! (Shh, don’t tell her.)

[@debbys-abqnm4537]

The "Bueno Foods" website has recipes, too :)

[@itsme-rt7nz]

Gotta choose red chile and pork when ordering my posole.

[@Saezimmerman]

Native coastal Texan here I learned a new word while watching the weather in Santa Fe. It was Verga or precipitation that evaporated before it hit the ground. Given that my home gets an average of 50 inches of rain a year, this boggled my mind.

[@dr.westwood]

LOL. Don't use that word. It's a slang term for a man's appendage.

[@itsme-rt7nz]

@@dr.westwood Don't know where you're from, but in NM, we use that word all the time during the monsoon season. Sorry.

[@sydneyliu4825]

Wow, mine too...

[@thedeviouspanda]

It's virga. Verga (vehr-ga) is a penis.

[@coyotech55]

@@thedeviouspanda yep. Virga is that rain that doesn't hit the ground. It comes from Latin. Verga is Spanish, and rude in mixed company 🙂

[@dianapovero7319]

🤣😂😅Lawrence watch you struggle with these is hillarious, I haven't laughed this hard all year.❤

[@jbratt]

I live in South Texas and I have heard a lot of them. We have words here that are neighborhood specific with the influence of Tex-Mex language that is a language within itself.

[@gali01992]

I live in Mesa, Arizona, and I've heard of some of the words. Since I live full time in a fifth-wheel RV in an RV park, the haboob is the scariest word on the list to me. Last year Mesa was hit by a storm with 70 MPH+ winds that felt like it was going to tip my trailer over. Many of the park models (permanent trailers) had damage to roofs and carports, with one carport trying to do a Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. The carport made it out of the RV park but only to the road. That was not a haboob but haboobs can get worse, even up to 100 MPH and that WILL tip trailers over.

[@jackielinde7568]

"5th Wheel" - Couldn't afford the full trailer? Also, Hi from the "West Side!" of Phoenix.

[@xxxBradTxxx]

I'm out in Queen Creek and I have a video of that storm ripping my watermelon trellis out of the ground.

[@gali01992]

@@jackielinde7568 It's only a 40-footer. I bought it when I lived in NH and back then a special license was required to pull anything over 40 feet. So I had to stick with an el shorty. But the real pinch in the wallet was having to buy the Chevy 3500HD 6.6 liter diesel with the Z71 package (all the bells and whistles) to pull the durn thing... 🤣

[@gali01992]

@@xxxBradTxxx I bet you felt pretty meloncholy after that... 😁

[@SevenHunnid]

I get paid to smoke weed in my KZbin videos cx.

[@kamibeckmann196]

LMAOOOOO !! As a 4th generation native Tucsonian and I'd be more than happy to thoroughly explain a SNOWBIRD.. Rude + shitty drivers (aka- motorcycle killers) for starters ! Snowbirds don't move here they live here Oct through April (our winter) and go back to whatever cold ass state they come from in the summer...omg I could go on and on...🤦🏽‍♀️ You pronounce our words better than they do😉 Btw.. I make a mean Posole ! (Not pozole) I think I just peed myself at this video🤣🤣🤣

[@jackielinde7568]

You sound like you need more snowbirds in Tucson. Want me to send some to you from Phoenix on those bloody tour busses that come up from the border? :D

[@kamibeckmann196]

@@jackielinde7568 🤣🤣🤣 no we'll pass we have PLENTY OF OUR OWN ! Right up the road from me in Saddlebrook and Rancho Vistoso🙄 I'm well aware of the mess in Sun City an SanTan ✌

[@kathleensiegrist1457]

You can always tell when the snowbirds show up- I live in Tucson and have since 1983- just makes it more stressful to drive

[@kamibeckmann196]

@@kathleensiegrist1457 omg amen sister !🙏 And the motorcycle deaths triple due to snowbirds🤦🏽‍♀️

[@jenloves4260]

Pozole (pronounced po-sole- e) is prominent in New Mexico. It’s a stew of the actual pozole (somewhat like hominy but it isn’t the same). Pork, onions….seasonings. And then it would normally be served (in Albuquerque and Santa Fe anyways) with red chile. Red chile might be considered a “sauce” but don’t dare use that there. It’s made from dried red chile where you get the pulp out and create a smooth consistency liquid with various spices. The spice index of the chile will depend on the crop that year as it always does. Red chile is just fully ripened green chile such a Hatch Green Chile.

[@kamibeckmann196]

Best Posole would be here in Tucson.. 80 miles from the border and home of Linda Rondstat🇲🇽

[@clwinquest]

Yummy

[@musearrives2am]

Hatch Green Chiles are the best, flavorful without being too spicy. 💚

[@jenloves4260]

Northern New Mexican food and Mexican foods are very very different.

[@RonJDuncan]

Living in New Mexico, I usually see it Posole instead of Pozole. While they are effectively pronounced the same, the z version tends to be done more in Mexico proper, but as you get further north from there towards the border and into the US, you'll see posole more frequently.

[@RRaquello]

Haboob sounds like something you'd find on the menu of a Middle Eastern restaurant. I always figured arroyo, bayou and kill are words meaning the same thing but stemming from different languages, used in different parts of the country depending on the language that was influential in the early years of settlement. Arroyo is from Spanish, bayou is from French and kill is from Dutch, and they all mean a kind of creek (often pronounced crick). In New York, the word kill is used, because of New York's early Dutch origin.

[@lisacrews3060]

I lived in the greater PHX, AZ area for the first 45 years of my life. I know what a haboob is and I had the Valley Fever to prove it. There's a fungus that rests on the desert floor in the SW and haboobs blow it in and everyone is exposed because the dust gets into ev.ery.thing. and people inhale it. When we were kids we played in it-my brother even built a sail for his bike so the haboob would make him go faster. The same thing is accomplished with an umbrella while sitting on a skateboard. Good times. Valley Fever won't kill you, but if you're symptomatic, you'll wish you were dead. It's like the worst flu you ever had X2. I was 7 and sick for about 10 days. The fever was so high I was delirious-it freaked my mother out. When my brother had it his fever was so high it almost hurt to touch him. Meds are tough on your kidneys, so they usually try to let your body handle it on its own. If you get a chest X-ray in AZ and a spot shows up, they ask how long you've lived there. If it's 5 years or more they reassure it it's probably just a souvenir from Valley Fever. Haboobs are just like blizzards, but brown. You can't see anything ahead of your car. It's unnerving. When the rain comes behind it it rains mud all over everything. Afterwards, everyone has to pull their patio furniture and trampolines out of their in ground pools or sometimes the neighbor's yard.

[@TheDellaniOakes]

I don't live in the SW, nor have I heard most of those words. I just wanted to tell you that I feel your pain. Overall, you did better than I did at guessing.

[@lisapop5219]

I don't blame you for missing menudo. Hoo doo has a different meaning in Louisiana

[@lairdcummings9092]

"Hoodoo," in general terms, refers to mysterious, magical phenomena. The spire rocks definitely look like something that took magic to create, and probably requires magic to stay up.

[@lisapop5219]

@@lairdcummings9092 generally, I agree with you. But hoo doo traveled out there. It is not a word based on the Spanish heritage in that area. It has a different meaning in Louisiana and it has nothing to do with rock formations.

[@trentenswett6306]

Native South Westerner here, Born in Colorado and lived in Utah since I was 10, first 10 years was spent between Idaho and Wyoming, defiantly heard of a few of those words others not so much. Also a regional thing specific to Utah and some parts of Idaho and Wyoming is the usage of the word "Scone" to refer to fry bread, thanks too British settlers in the 19th century who came over for work or after becoming Mormon, they called the Native American flat bread "Fry Bread" or Bannock, a Scone, so if you are ever in Utah and see a "Scone" on a restraint's menu just know it is not going to be what you are used too, and for my fellow South Westerners who want some Fry Bread just ask for a Scone. A real British Scone is referred to as a English Scone to separate the two.

[@darkwitnesslxx]

A Utah scone is far better than a British scone. Fry Bread is wonderful stuff.,

[@trentenswett6306]

@@darkwitnesslxx Food of the Gods, don't forget the honey butter.

[@jscanlan22]

Mr. Brown, you are obviously a tenderfoot so a bit of education is called for. New Mexico is a bit different from other parts of the SW. the upper central part of the state was settled by Castilian-speaking Spanish in the early 1600s. A Native American revolt drove them out, down to El Paso. They did return a few years later. There is a portion of land in the south-central area of the state referred to as Journada del Muerto that is part of that story. These folk resent being lumped in with the general Hispanic population. New Mexican cuisine has much more Puebloan influence than Tex Mex or Mexican. There is a wide range of Mexican cuisines. New Mexico is very proud of its Green Chilies, they are different from most of the other green peppers, generally similar in size to Anaheims but they taste different. Fresh chilies can be roasted, fire-scorched to remove the skin, or dried in ristras. You can google images. Snowbirds are folks who leave their northern abodes for warmer climes, they are generally considered nuesences. Buttes are small versions of mesas, mesas can be quite large, Acoma Pueblo is on the top of one. Take a trip and visit, New Mexico is high desert and very dry, it can be 90s during the day and 40s at night. Always carry water more than you think you need if you go exploring.

[@fakereality96]

+1,000 Internet Points

[@danielleporter1829]

Menudo is also a hangover cure according to my mom and anyone who's ever had roollicking night out and may want to assuage their hangover so they don't want to feel to many of its effects, in my mom's case. she had some the day after she and my dad got married in the courthouse in Downtown L.A in 1975 a couple of months before their planned wedding which they still had. The drink of choice that had my mom in a state of hangover was Tangeray Gin which she did hot touch again after a get together at one of my parents' friends' house. She didn't touch the stuff again for the rest of her life, she's been gone 6 years in little over a month and my dad's been gone since '95. And of course Menudo was a music group that Ricky Martin was in in the 80's.

[@Lisared023]

You had me cracking up so hard, I was crying!! Thank you!

[@Oldleftiehere]

Oh Laurence, you’ve made me laugh today. Please keep your droll sense of humor coming at us. Love ya 💜💜💜.

[@Isolder74]

Hoodoos are a rock formation famous in Goblin Valley Utah State Park. Edit: Just do not push them over like an moron.

[@jackielinde7568]

Silly. Now that you said not to push one over, some moron is going to do just that.

[@Isolder74]

@@jackielinde7568 Sadly someone already did.

[@disgustedvet9528]

We live in Ohio and my Polish born wife makes great pozole using pork , hominy ( my favorite ) or chick peas and other good stuff .

[@flakyanddelicious]

I've found it so fascinating that posole exists around the world but called different names. My Indian 🇮🇳 girlfriend grew up with it to. Its called something different and tastes just a little different from the Mexican posole I grew up eating, but it's really good.

[@BeeWhistler]

I live in California and I have heard of many of the words, or of the things they refer to and I accept these as being the actual names for those things.

[@tamifaulkner4103]

I make Pesole. I live in Washington State but was first exposed to it in a local Mexican restaurant. Delicious and there are varieties. I also really like menudo but wouldn't try to make it myself. We get fresh Hatch chilis delivered to our grocery stores here in season so we can roast & cook with them. Even way up here there are a lot of Mexican & southwestern influences!

[@jwb52z9]

I've heard of pazole, but it's not all that popular in my part of northern Texas, as far as I know. Mesa is the Spanish word for table. Laurence, "chile" is the pepper and "chili" is the meat dish. :) Menudo is, shall we say, an "acquired" taste since it has cow stomach in it.

[@tootz1950]

Mexico and Spain really have little in common. Culture, food, holidays (mostly), and other things are completely different. Basic language is something they share, but not much beyond basic. Don't try to order Paella in Mexico, they don't know what you mean. Just like tortilla in Spain is a potato omelet instead of a wrap for tacos and burritos as in Mexico and the US.. Way different.

[@Og-Judy]

Mexican was really derived from the Spanish conquistadors bringing Spanish language to the native Indian language of the area.

[@jeniw8586]

Guess they lost things in the pond as well...

[@pacmanc8103]

The language isn’t different - a Madrid newspaper (written in far-beyond basic Spanish) can easily be read by someone in Mexico City or Santiago, Chile, for that matter. Same with watching a national news broadcast. Of course there are differences (kinda like what Laurence does with British and American terms, pronunciation, etc.) but don’t overdo it.

[@Markle2k]

You must be from Spain. I say that because that's the attitude my Spanish relatives have toward all things Americas. You will get something a bit looser ordering paella in Mexico than in Spain, but it's the same family. Going from house to house in either country, you won't get the same thing when they say they are serving paella. In Mexico and the Caribbean, saffron isn't always available so you might find paprika or annatto providing the color and some of the flavor.

[@Markle2k]

@@jeniw8586 The Spanish take the chauvinistic originalism to a whole other level than "separated by a common language".

[@sofamiller7133]

“Haboob” is a great example of an Arabic import. So is “wadi,” a dried river or creek bed, which we might call a “wash.”

[@persephonebasilissa5109]

In eastern Washington State, we were caught in a haboob while on the highway one day. Pulled over to the shoulder & waited it out. What an eerie, frightening experience!

[@dianay.servin3949]

El Paso here! I’ve heard all those words- you did a great job- love your pronunciation-menudo is the breakfast of champions, pozole is the soul- satisfying soup, and Hatch Chile is second to none! Wonderful (as are all your videos)

[@davidtravis1384]

Being a life long Tucsonan, I can tell you Menudo is great, especially around the holidays, but Pozole is excellent any time of the year. Also, a closer pronunciation of Chiltepin is chil-ta-PEEN. I've heard people butcher that word worst than you did so I give you a few points.

[@PJAvenger]

I know Menudo! They're a Puerto Rican boy band from the 70's/80's - had no idea you made soup out of them though.

[@SupaKoopaTroopa64]

Also a lifetime Arizonian here (Mostly Tucson), and I just today learned what Pozole is. I've eaten it before, but every restaurant I've been to just calls it "soup" LOL.

[@Arkay66]

I live in Texas and we still call dust storms dust storms, although haboob is beginning to come into more common use. Pozole is not only a hominy-based chicken or pork soup, but we've been known to eat it for breakfast, too. We call snowbirds Winter Texans. Our unique music is called Tejano and Conjunto.

[@raeperonneau4941]

This was awesome! I always learn something from your videos. Thank you!!!

[@angieallen4884]

I lived in AZ for 5 years and I learned several new words today! Thanks, Lawrence!

[@sct27271]

I live in Virginia and have had pozole but more importantly I’ve had it’s essential ingredient, hominy, on many occasions. Hominy is the white inside of a kernel of corn which is removed by soaking the corn in a lime solution. When dry you can grind it to make grits and cornmeal. I have Spanish speaking friends that refer to hominy as pozole.

[@raymondholguin7272]

Having lived in Tucson and Tubac for 53 years I would say your definitions are SPOT ON good sir. Now I know your channel is family friendly so I won't offer any off color terms, or words. GOOD SHOW SIR

[@estherheyer2863]

I live in Oklahoma. I have heard many of the words and used many, but I also lived in Mexico for a couple years. A friend worked on top of a mesa and took me to show his work. It was gorgeous there. The soup is delicious! Menudo not my cup of tea.

[@judyteeter1103]

Pazole or as we in New Mexico call it pasole is a soup that has many many variations. Here in NM we make it with pork, pig's feet, red chile, and pasole (nixtamalized corn also known as hominy). It is traditionally served in the winter especially at Christmas along with tamales.

[@Honkey-Donkey]

50 yr old lifetime Phoenix gal here. While there is a lot of Mexican/Spanish influence here, there is far more Native American influence. And the haboob.... ya, that's a fairly recent (probably started in the 90's) word and is still laughed at by locals because we think it's ridiculous.

[@cherylflam3250]

Moved to Phoenix area in 2001 ( from Chicago Lawrence). Everyone called it a dust storm until over 10 years later, and suddenly the news was calling it a haboob. I still call it a dust storm. Haboob is silly sounding. We don’t live in Afghanistan!

[@brycepatties]

It's probably something that service members brought back from service in Southwest Asia.

[@jscanlan22]

@@brycepatties Desert Storm I, yes it is Arabic

[@b.slocumb7763]

I grew up in the desert and we never thought of the mesa as having any drop off anywhere, it was just flat desert land that went on for quite a ways (went on forever if you were a kid on a bike). Sometimes we were warned not to ride out on the mesa by ourselves but of course we always did.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Snowbird. N. Semi-perjoritive label for migratory retirees whom wish to avoid weather and temperature extremes. Commonly used in Florida and the American Southwest.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Butte: N. Eroded core of an extinct volcano. Generally quite small, geologically-speaking. Mesa: N. Isolated flat tableland created by erosion, and not specifically volcanic in nature.

[@lairdcummings9092]

Bonus word: Caliche (KA lee CHE): N. Incredibly thick, glutinous, and adhesive clay mud, of a consistency similar to silly putty, but with adhesive properties similar to contact cement. Dries to a brick-like consistency, and is a principal component of adobe bricks. Caliche will sieze cars, trucks, and even tracked vehicles, and will only release them under extreme effort. It's bad stuff.

[@mayloo2137]

Normally Canadians who fly south for the winter are known as snowbirds. Where are the Floridians? They would know. Also, they may not necessarily be retirees. Anybody with the money could do it.

[@lairdcummings9092]

@@mayloo2137 Floridians slap that label on any migratory retirees. My neighbors, for instance, are snowbirds, driving their monster RV down to Florida where they winter over, much as geese will.

[@williamjones7163]

I lived in Arizona for 32 years and I didn't know 4 of these words. They may have sounded familiar but I couldn't define them. Thanks Lawrence for improving my vocabulary.

[@jmcosmos]

Chiltepín (chill-tuh-PEEN) is the tiny, VERYvery hot chile pepper. My grandmother used to grow them to feed to her pet parrots, who adored them. In Texas the name has been corrupted to _chile pequín_ (tiny chile). Of course! Posole is a wonderful warming stew for the cold-weather time. It involves hominy (corn treated with lime-water to remove the skins) and maybe some meat, depending. It's an all-over-Mexico dish, but very popular in the northern states. I make it myself, as a Texan. Buttes are indeed quite like mesas ( _mesa_ = "table"). It's kinda straight up-and-down, with a flat top, like a crew cut. Alas, no. Hatch chiles come from the Hatch valley of New Mexico. They're very very similar to the Anaheim cultivar of chile, only hotter because they grow in a dry area which concentrates the capsaicin (all right, let's address that too -- cap-SAY-uh-sin) and makes them rather hotter than your garden-variety Anaheim. Half marks! As "norteño" means Northern, you're dead on target. Geographically, it refers to the border states of Tamaúlipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Any Mexican state that borders the US qualifies easily as "norteño." (Technically, Baja California could qualify as well, but no one thinks about it like that.) Norteño is also a musical style, as you note, covering ranch-style country music of the northern states. This music is also known as "conjunto" (group) music. Yes, there's a crazy cross-cultural thing going on between the Germans and Czechs of Texas and Mexicans. Conjunto happily adopted two-steps and polkas from the Texans. Menudo is touted as an excellent morning-after cure for a hangover. Its main issue is that it's made with tripe (no issue if you've ever gotten on the outside of _tripes à la mode de Caen_ ) and it tends to stink while it's cooking. Open windows in _la cocina_ are recommended. (Full disclosure: I have made menudo myself at home. It was hella good.)

[@Saezimmerman]

Thanks so much for telling me that chiltepin and chilli piquin are the same pepper. Otherwise I'd have wasted a little research time thinking there was something new to try. If you're ever in an over air conditioned location with access to a chili piquin, they do pair well together. A lot of Texas guys I know will dare each other to eat fresh chilli piquin or other hot peppers. Nothing throws them off like women huddled in hoodies or blankets taking their stash of peppers.

[@dejathescribe]

I’m from Nebraska, not of Latin descent but Pozole changed my life!

[@tookitogo]

I learned the hard way, as a 3 year old, why one shouldn’t touch chiles and then your privates: we were staying at a beach house in Guatemala that had a chiltepin bush in front, and I grabbed some and later touched myself. Apparently I was screaming afterwards! 🤣

[@coyotech55]

It gets called pequin or chile pequin in NM, too. Because they are small but mighty.

[@larryfontenot9018]

Snowbird is a slang word I'm quite familiar with from growing up in Los Angeles county. But in California, snowbirds are often migratory fowl. They fly to LA around January after seeing the sunny skies of the internationally broadcast Rose Parade, and then a number of them decide that maybe the snow wasn't so bad after all when they experience their first strong earthquake. :) (Californians who were born and raised there barely even notice earthquakes that are less than 4.0 on the Richter scale, and don't notice ones that are less than 3.0 at all.)

[@jackielinde7568]

Haboob is a relatively recent addition to the Southwest Lexicon. We borrowed/stole it from the Middle East, where similar storms hit with similar frequency. Also, when the hell were you in Arizona, Lawrence? Shit. Had I known you and your wife were coming, I'd offer to play guide for you two.

[@robthetraveler1099]

Mesas are similar to (flat top, steep sides) but much broader than buttes. Buttes are isolated, small landforms, whereas mesas can go on for dozens or even hundreds of miles.

[@Blend-24]

I live in the southwest. I’ve had pozole many times. Menudo is used for hang overs as it is intestines soup. Arroyo, rancho (shortened to ranch), pantelones (pants), many things are influence by the the Mexican culture especially the Cowboy culture of America. All of these southwest states were at one time part of Mexico. The Spanish flag was flown but very few Spaniards were among them who came to the southwest area, most were mixed or “mestizos” and other backgrounds.

[@rebeccacorbin1590]

Lawrence you are truly a Chicagoan. Holding on to the Sears Tower moniker is epic.

[@jocelyn4071]

Thank you for the information! I live in Albuquerque but not a native. I knew some of these but not all. Now I can sound much more native. 😊 P.S. I enjoy Pozole.

[@SkiesTurnedGrey]

I remember the dust storms in Arizona. Lived there for 6 years. Crazy stuff, almost like being transported to a different world.

[@mayloo2137]

Menudo was also the name of a popular Spanish boy band. I'm in southern Alberta. We have a local attraction called the Hoodoos which look like the rock formations you showed. Strange that. I don't think we had Spanish settlers this far north, yet we still managed to name similar rock formations the same thing.

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

First thing I thought of when I heard it.

[@mayloo2137]

@@Sgt_SealCluber which part? Menudo?

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

@@mayloo2137 Yeah

[@rhyta5042]

Bryce Canyon National Park is where the picture he posted of a hoodoo came from.

[@leifjohnson617]

To me - a Native American - "snowbird" means someone who lives in a part of the US that gets really cold in the winter but who travels to a warmer state to escape the cold winters. There are a lot of snowbirds in Arizona, where I I've. They normally arrive before the start of winter and then return home when the worst of winter is over.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

I really like these word videos. I knew some of them. Hoodoo is also a religion in other parts of the country.🐝🤗❤️

[@Robin7-26]

I’ve lived in Arizona since 1971 and you stumped me on some words so… You learn something new every day😊

[@Ember-Rodriguez]

At least where I'm from in southern Arizona we use wash a lot more than arroyo but both get some use depending on the level of Spanglish. I would say we have a lot of Mexican influence instead of Spanish as a lot of common words are actually Nahuatl in origin not Castilian Spanish.

[@coyotech55]

Arroyo is more common in NM, and wash in AZ. I moved to AZ from NM, so I'm used to calling them arroyos, but I do hear wash more often around here.

[@NunyaDammeBiznis]

Snowbird is also used in the southeast. Normally used for a person who lives up north in the warm months and moves to the south for the winter.

[@nomdeplume7537]

There's a tidbit about Snowbirds that you "pooched the screw" with. Primarily a Snowbird isn't so much used in conjunction with someone, who MOVES from a state with harsher winter weather, to the warmer ones in the South. Instead it's most common nomenclature ... is more frequently used, in association with not just seniors ... but is applicable, to anyone whom participates in the transitory SEASONAL migrative paradigm. Usually, someone from a cold state makes their initial trip down ... to air out and prep, the domicile utilized while in their area of BI-LOCATION ... aka BI-HABITATORS, just after the 1st cold snap. Usually October to early November. Canadian license plates start showing up WAY before others, September in some cases. That lasts until the holidays. Headi back up, Thanksgiving and Christmas with family. Then by the time family is over them. They Get Out of Dodge ... remigrating back down south sometime after New Years. By the time of The Great Snowbird Exodus rolls around, between March and mid-April. By this point, they've usually pissed off enough of the locals, that before the torch and pitchfork wielding mob of has a chance to get fully mobilized. They'll skedaddle back up, to from under whatever rock it was, from whence they came. Eventually many will relocate permanently. At that point, their status is changed in the system from Snowbird, to torchbearer, or Pitchforker at the next "Annual Mob Storming The Castle Gala." They usually supply the most fervent mob members.

[@Rocketsong]

Yup. First day it hits 100 and all of a sudden all the Minnesota license plates disappear.

[@nomdeplume7537]

@@Rocketsong You must be in the "it's a dry heat ... southwest" Dry heat my ass ... so's an oven

[@c.e.simmons569]

LOL 😄

[@joannamcpeak7531]

A wonderful example of Corrido would be "El Paso" by Marty Robbins. It is a beautiful ballad, which you would enjoy.