Snowbirds are retired people who spend the winter in hotter parts of the country like the southwest or gulf coast region, and spend the summers in the colder parts of the country like the midwest, New England or even Canada. They can therefore avoid be in each region during its most pleasent time of year and avoid the extreme weather.
Snowbirds are people (usually retired) who live in the northern states during the spring, summer, and most of the fall then spend the winter months in warm climate states' favorites are Florida or Arizona. Many of my friends are snowbirds. Many in Michigan wear short pants outside during the winter months. Menudo is a delicious soup. Cows have 4 stomachs but Menudo is made from only 2 the reticulum amd omasum which are the 2 middle stomachs.
I believe Laurence is going to be doing the "town names" videos for all 50 states, so you might want to get a whiteboard to keep score 😅And Millie is correct with the LL. *But Laurence is wrong with snowbirds, they don't move, they migrate.* They go back home when it warms up. Just like birds travelling south for the winter.
It used to be exclusively used for people who moved South and then went back North but now there's so many permanent snowbirds especially that they kind of get grouped in with the temporary seasonal snowbirds.
You got it backwards. Snowbirds are northerners who flock to Florida and the Southwest during winter time to avoid the snow and cold weather in their home states.
Snowbirds are people that have two homes. One up north and one in the south. In the winter they travel to the south because the winters are mild and during the summer they then travel back up north. That is why they are called Snowbirds. They fly south for the winter.
Similar to the word "snowbird" is one used to describe "skiing groupies" -- the young women who flock to ski lodges and latch on to the hunky skiers -- "snow bunnies".
I live in Albuquerque and yes, it refers to the dry riverbed, but it also refers to the drainage canals. You may see canals with names such as Arroyo del Oso which literally translates to Stream of the Bear.
There's an arroyo called Arroyo Seco in California. One should be careful of avoiding flash floods throughout the southwest. There's a little notch canyon in California and one does not want to get caught in there if there is a rain storm upstream. One should always have checked the weather before entering something like that. Also, many people get in trouble who aren't used to the heat. Always have a lot of water. This is especially true if hiking through a sandy area. It's harder to walk and really sweats the water out of a person.
@@Anon54387 Fellow Californian here, It's funny that the term Arroyo Seco is redundant as Seco means dry, so Arroyo Seco literally means dry dry creek lol...
🤔 I think that you should deduct 2 points from your score. One for taking a point when you guessed hot & cold and it was a pepper. The other for trying to cheat and take a point for the aforementioned pepper. 🙂
"Mesa" is pronouned May-sa. A Butte is a single distinct steep-sided mountain or hill with a somewhat flat top, whereas, a Mesa is an elevated and flat formation that can span for immense distances, and can support whole farms, cities, neighborhoods, airports or other structures. I was raised in San Diego California, which has vast regions made of Mesas, like Serra Mesa, Kearney Mesa, Clairemont Mesa, etc.
I was also raised in San Diego. Maybe it’s a cultural but I don’t pronounce mesa as may-sa and neither did most people I know. It’s the same word as the Spanish word for table and people I know pronounce meh-sa. It gets this name because it looks similar to a table.
@@anndeecosita3586 I know "mesa" is Spanish for "table", but I'm trying to represent the word phonetically, but don't know the best way to do it, so maybe you can do it.
@@heyjude042467 I know "mesa" is Spanish for "table", but I'm trying to represent the word phonetically, but don't know the best way to do it, so maybe you can do it.
I'm over 40 and have lived in the South Western US my entire life. I was surprised that 'mesa' was an unknown term, it's just something I've taken for granted. I was born in Mesa, AZ and currently live near the Grand Mesa in CO. It's just been a terribly common word throughout my life, it never crossed my mind that it was a regional thing. I'd also like to add that Hatch green chile is a genuine part of South West culture. Throughout the four corners states (AZ, CO, UT, NM) it's everywhere. Out of season it's available canned in veritably every grocery store. When in season it's commonly found being sold by street vendors who roast them on the spot for their customers (which also produces a wonderful scent that brings people to them). Most years I learn chile season has started not by hearing about it or seeing it but by smelling it. It is a much loved local ingredient, we put it in just about everything we can. In my house the favored dish to use it in is a breakfast quiche.
Ohhh, I have Hatch Cheese popcorn on my desk. It is amazing!! Love Hatch Chiles... I thought about sending some but James and Millie don't seem to have palates for spice.
The Southwest is also home to the largest Native American reservation in the United States 😊 I love that you guys are reacting to the Southwest, we're always forgotten here lol. Love the video ❤️
Seems like anything that isn't California (LA,SF) Texas (Houston DFW), New York or Florida is forgotten about lately. The Southwest has tons to offer. Not just with cultures but the sights are amazing. Forget the big cities. Mexican-American-Native food fusions you don't find other places. It's a great place. Anyone considering, come visit!
I love in Tucson Arizona and we get a lot of snowbird’s. We have a lot of adobe homes here. There great they stay nice and cool in the heat. I really enjoy watching you both.
I live I New Mexico. A Butte is a smaller flat topped rock formation. Mesa is Spanish for table so wen refuring to mountains as Mesa, it literally means tabletop mountains. This can be an entire rage of mountains, as long as they are flat topped, they are Mesa.
"That accent over top of the N makes me think it's a jalepeno" I'm dying! Or it's just how you pronounce those letters in Spanish. You guys are great. There is no reason you should know these words so I'm not trying to mock you. That sentence just killed me.
Being an over the road trucker, we drive to all 48 states, I can say the slight difference in words and accents can make communication tricky some days. The put hatch chilies on everything. Pizza, hamburgers, soups, steaks, in corn dishes, with eggs, etc ....
Menudo was often a continuous stew in that you added more of whichever ingredients you had to make it more. As referenced by the Latino boy band Menudo whose members couldn't be over 17, so as they aged out, they were replaced by young new singers.
I lived in Arizona for 18 years and you guys are cracking me up. Haboobs are no joke. You can't see 1 ft. in front your face. And snowbirds are great but they drive their Buicks and Mercury's really slow.
I’m from Southern California and my husband is from Missouri (he was stationed by me while in the Marine Corps, that’s how we met)..we have been married for 12yrs now and to this day him and his entire family cannot comprehend while we call the I-10 freeway “ The 10” …I’ve never in my life heard anyway out here say “ I’m on Interstate 10” rather we say “ I’m on the 10” 🤷♀️ It’s just funny to me that this is so unusual to them🤷♀️🤣🤣
"Pozole" is so good, same with "Menudo." Perfect for winter, holidays, special occasions or if you're just craving it. "Menudo" is also perfect for hangovers.
I had Menudo for breakfast this morning! I am in faaaaar west Texas. Menudo is very common here...the odd thing is that most people here eat it on Sundays
Menudo is eaten on Sunday because it's a hangover cure. You get trashed Saturday night and have menudo for breakfast on Sunday. Usually after a large celebration like a wedding or whatever. Menudo is my favorite.
To your credit I have also heard Hoodoo used as an alternate of voodoo. I think it’s even in a movie with Kate Hudson called the Skeleton Key so give yourselves the point!
Snowbirds hate the cold, so they go South for the winter. I live in Florida. So I'm wicked familiar (and I lived in Maine for 12 years, so I use the adverb "wicked" a lot!) I live your videos-they're wicked good!
Hoodoo also means a type of voodoo; also, in baseball, it's a player who is considered a jinx. I have heard it used to mean "it's a cheat" in the Upstate Carolinas.
I'm from Arizona.. I'm surprised about the word haboob. We got the worst dust storms, 350 ft wall of dust sweeping over the valley. It's considered a dust bowl, and monsoon rains from the southwest push the dust, which then settles over us. I don't love the use of word "haboob" as I've been told by soldiers in the middle east that our dust storms are nothing compared to what they see there, but that's what they call our storms on the news. Snowbirds are actually visitors to the area every year, not used when talking about peopke that have moved. Snowbirds are the MOST dreaded *visitors* in the winter season, there escaping bad weather in their own states. They are dreaded because they have a habit of driving their motor homes slowly in the fast lane with their blinkers (directionals) still on. But I've never run into a rude Snowbird. I'm gonna say a goid lot are from Canada. Mesa is spanish for table. Many of our words are adopted from Native American words, as well as Spanish words. Full point on Hatch Chile, you guys get that one for sure!
I'm a native of Arizona and watching you two react to this video was interesting. Our area doesn't get much attention compared to the South, New England, and the midwest so watching you react to our culture was entertaining. I'm also Mexican-American and Millie you're correct about the Spanish pronunciation of "ll". Pozole is a favorite of mine, ya'll should try it if you ever get the chance!
What do you mean?! I'm from New Mexico and our deserts our often used for movie locations. Tons of people from all around the world travel to Arizona and New Mexico to see the landscape. I think we get a lot of attention. But I guess everyone thinks differently.
@@MrChrisbtacos I think.. well at least I meant that you don't hear about it much. I rarely watch anything where they're talking about it. But there is a lot going on. I grew up 35 minutes from Tombstone, so I'm used to all the movie productions, but I never heard the name of my hometown mentioned anywhere.. except for it was the home of the first McDonald's drive thru haha
Okay guys let's talk about weather in the United states. In general the southern half of the 48 contiguous states not counting Hawaii and Alaska are warmer even hotter than the northern half of the country. Think the Southwest has deserts the southeast has hot summers and beaches in Florida and along the Atlantic coast. The further north you go the closer you get to the North Pole the colder it's going to be and the further south you go the closer you get to the equator the hotter is going to Snowbirds especially older people don't enjoy the cold weather as much as they did when they were younger and they leave the cold weather and go south for the winter. Some of them move their permanently. The reason they're called birds is because birds fly south for the winter to get away from the cold.
That was fun. I grew up in New Mexico and missed some of those. However, I live in Las Cruces, about 40-minutes South of Hatch. Everywhere you go, from restaurants to jars of chile boast "Hatch Green Chile." Every hamburger has green chile as on option. Including many McDonalds. We just call mesas open desert. Go for a walk across open mesa. I've never heard them associated with buttes. Which you see a lot. Not like Devil's tower, from rock, but carved into the desert. So out of dirt. All the mexican food restaurants in town offer bowls of Pazole. Menudo at some of them. I'm not a big fan of cows stomach (tripe). As college students we would end a night of drinking at "Casa de Menudo" and my friend would get a bowl of menudo. Our major cities have mountains nearby and the run-off from heavy rains create Arroyos. Cities like Albuquerque create concrete arroyos going from the Sandia Mountains to the Rio Grande River to get more control over these very dangerous locations for run-off. People pass away from being caught off guard in arroyos.
Mesa's definitely are flat toped "table top" hills in the southwest. Hence the name Mesa which translates to "table" in Spanish. I've lived in the Southwest in NM and Arizona my entire life only missed the music ones but that was out of my Genre.
I also grew up in NM (Roswell and Albuquereque). We referred to the area to the northwest of downtown as the "West Mesa", although it is so large and flat you would have to be on the order of 100,00 ft above it to see that it is shaped that way. BTW - We also love Hatch chili, but here in Georgia everyone thinks it has to be super hot (which is obviously wrong).
@Steven Martin , Im Philly native transplanted to Vegas then Phoenix for 30 years. Now I live in Las Cruces as well. Besides the poor governance, I love New Mexico.
Even in Spanish there is more than one definition for words. Such as Mesa, it can mean table also. Pozole is from the Mexican Indians language but in Spanish the spelling changes to Posole.
🤣 Snowbird is someone who flies away from the snow to warmer weather, this a southern word... when we used to live in south Florida there were so many who flocked for the winter 😲😳🤯
To be fair to James, hoodoo is also the word used for the magic practice within the voodoo religion, it’s the word occultists use when they use specific parts of voodoo and bastardize it. (Bastardize not meant with any negative connotation)
Pretty sure Snowbird is used everywhere in the US. Here in Ohio we always use it when winter comes because we know the old retired folk are going to somewhere like Flordia.
I don't live in the southwest, but I knew most of these words as there is a sizable Hispanic population around where I live; I've also visited Colorado quite a bit where some of these words are used quite a bit. Talking about Butte versus Mesa, is basically exactly how it's stated in the video. A butte is an isolated hill, Devil's Tower is a perfect example. Mesa is actually Spanish for table, hence the flat top, but a Mesa is much larger than a butte, taking up a large area. Grand Mesa in western Colorado is a good example, it's the largest flat-topped mountain in the world; it has an area of about 500 square miles and is almost 40 miles long. Snowbird is a term I've heard used some where I live too, and it generally is someone who moves back and forth. Around me, it's mostly Arizona, people "fly south for the winter" hence "snowbird" and come back for the summer.
Grand Junction is a great place to retire. Good weather, good medical care, economical housing, it is the largest city between Denver & Salt Lake City.
Castillian and Mexican Spanish can be very different. Lots of particular usage and Native loan words. One of my favorites is Chubasco. Snowbird is common. Anne Murray had a hit song with that title in the 70s, and she's from Canada. There are Narco-corridos... telling the tales and other things involving the drug trade. I didn't know chiltepin... theres lots of different peppers. No buzzing "z" sound. (Posole)... the main ingredient is hominy. The same white corn used to make grits. Arroyo, mesa (table), and butte are words you learn watching western movies with cowboys etc. Cow stomach in Menudo is just the beginning of what i call Mexican soul food. Tongue (lengua) tacos are on every Taqueria menu Poor people don't waste the edible parts... then it just becomes part of culture and reminds you of Grandmas house. A Chubasco is a sudden rain shower on a nice day that only lasts a short time. I learned the word in song lyrics by a famous Norteño group, Los Cadetes de Linares. Its very mellow music, mostly Boleros.. Ya'll should give it a listen.
Snowbird leaves colder climate to travel to and stay in a warmer climate for the entire winter season associated with seniors because they are retired and do not have to stay in one area because of a job.
To be fair to Millie, arroyo is a Spanish word, but it's not Iberian Spanish, it's Mexican. To be unfair to Millie, she thinks every word has to do with negative feelings and stupid people. I would watch out for that. The most important thing to know about snowbirds, from my experience living nearly a decade in Arizona, is that they are generally 206 years old and drive recreational vehicles, navigating mainly by sense of touch. To clarify, when Lawrence was talking about western music he meant music of the west, not Western Music, which is a product of Western Civilization, not western civilization, as there is no such thing as western civilization. You may notice, in aggregate, most of the words that Lawrence cited had to do with rock formations. In the Southwest, that's pretty much what you've got going on. That's why the Southwest made a National Park out of The Grand Canyon, the world's largest hole in the ground which was dug, or so I'm told, when a Scotsman dropped a penny down a gopher hole. P.S. My mother was born in Inverness. Please don't cancel me. Just in case, allow me to apologize to the Scots, in their own vernacular: Allo' me tae apologee in th' maist humble 'n' grovelin' wey tae ony scotsman wha ah harm's wi' mah wee joke. Yer a' a braw fowk, a nation o' thinkers 'n' makers, wha totally dae nae drunk yer paychecks 'n' batter ilk ither in th' heid. So there.
"Pozole" literally refers to "Hominy" or Nixtamalized Maize (corn). It is a kind of hominy/pepper/tomato soup with other ingredients. It could indeed have seafood. Everybody's abuela (grandmother) has their own special recipe for pozole. Realistically, pozole can be just about any soup as long as it contains hominy, usually with some kind of meat although there are vegetarian versions. Menudo is basically Pozole made with tripe. The tripe makes it Menudo, although Menudo can be made without Hominy.
@@nancyjanzen5676 I used to have a foreman of Mexican heritage. On special occasions he'd make a 5 gallon stainless steel pot of pozole and serve it to the whole shop with corn chips and limes. He was a good guy.
@@SherriLyle80s Here in the Pacific Northwest we have a fairly large Hispanic population. You can find canned pozole in just about any grocery store. I can't vouch for how good it is, but I've seen it. I learned to make a version of it myself, usually with pork, tomatoes, and green chilies.
Since the U.S. is populated by people from all over the world, then native words from different countries would be integrated into different regions. We have cultural words from all over the world. We are very diverse as a nation.
It’s not just being close to Mexico that accounts for the Spanish influence. The southwest U.S. was part of Mexico and/or settled by Spain for a long time before it was part of the U.S.
I've lived in Arizona and Las Vegas Nevada all my life and I haven't heard most of these words. Snowbirds I knew and I'd heard the words Arroyo and Mesa before but usually just as names of housing communities. I think most of the words on this list are actually words used in Mexico to describe the SW USA.
Hmmm. That’s strange. I see alot of people from the SW. in the comments saying they are very familiar with all these words. Funny how that works. I’m from the South East and I knew a few of these but not most of them.
Snowbirds can live more cheaply down south in the winter because their electric and gas bills are so high up north due to the temperature difference. That's probably why they are older people. Air-conditioning bills are higher in the south so they go back home when it starts warming up.
My father is a snowbird. He spends his winters in Arizona. The weather in Wisconsin is freezing cold and can have higher humidity making it harder for him the breath with his old age. Arizona is hot but dry. No humidity.
Hoodoo is also an African American spiritual practice, voodoo is as well but voodoo is only allowed in the sacred places and hoodoo is practiced outside of the temples, it comes from African spirituality, and hoodoo is generally frowned upon in the eyes of the voodoo practitioners. It's very popular in new Orleans.
That’s the hoodoo meaning I’m more familiar with but I figured since he was being region specific that wasn’t what it meant. A lot of my friends from NOLA hate being stereotyped as being practicers of voodoo/hoodoo but the area makes money off of marketing this. I remember buying a voodoo doll in the French Quarter and there’s a music festival called Voodoo Fest.
Regarding to "Snowbird." I used to work health insurance customer service, this older guy kept asking about Snowbird policies. I had zero idea what he meant, no one around me did as well. Instead of explaining what he meant, he continued to insult me for not knowing what he meant. I had to firmly tell him it would not be tolerated, and I'd be willing to help, but he had to help me help him, he got an attitude and proceeded with insults so I disconnect the call. Turns out the proper term is multi-state policy, ultimately depends on the health insurance provider. Most policies are only available by state. Sad I could of helped, but being an ass to customer service gets you no where.
Southwest is more Spanish influence, while Southeast is more UlsterScots and French, Old British influence. Weatherwise, in the Southwest they have dust storms and southeast it is strictly tornadoes.
I’m from the Northeast in the U.S. Not to show my ignorance but I haven’t a clue what Haboob, Arroyo, Corrido, Chiltepin, Pozole, Norteno mean! LOL … in fact I’ve never heard of any of these 6 words before…🤔 Interesting… I could be a snowbird though lol by going South for the Winter :0) This was so much fun!
Being from Ohio in the USA I got a grand total of 4 right. Adobe, snow bird (people that don't like the cold ) butte, and Hoodoo (because I've been to Bryce Canyon)
Just so you both know, the word salsa is Spanish for sauce. And when Americans say salsa instead of sauce it always means a Hispanic/Latin sauce that is spicy. For example in a Mexican restaurant a person who says I want Green Salsa on my burrito, he or she means the spicy green sauce. Salsa is also a sexy dance which fast paced erotic in nature
The Architect trainie didn't know Adobe? Oh dear. Snowbird is NOT a Southwest term, it's used all over the US. Oh the embarrassment of you guys missing that was so huge. And then you still got it wrong. Snowbirds are people who go SOUTH for the winter, like birds migrating south to avoid the cold and snow. Butte is also used all over the US, anyone who went to school in this country should know that word and if they don't they need to go back to school. Mesa also is one that is used all over the nation, but like Butte they only exist in the southwest. Both of these should actually be well known around the world. In this country we must learn more about the world than Britain because we learn about geological formations world wide.
How about you just jab it in and twist it?? Lol I agree with what you're saying, and bless your heart for explaining it to them anyway. You know they're in Britain, but you expect them to know what it's like to live in southwest America?? Are you OK??
I agree many of these are used outside the southwest. I think Hoodoo is actually more of a Dakota thing than southwest. And Haboob originated in the Mideast. I knew 6, claim partial credit for 3 more, and got 4 wrong. I think of butte as a formation rising above the land around it, and mesa as a large flat area. A mesa can be elevated, but flatness is its main feature. A butte's main feature is it sticks up a lot and the edges are cliffs. The sides of a mesa can be hills, cliffs, or anything. If I was standing on top of a large butte and couldn't see the sides, I'd call it a mesa. If I was standing next to the same formation and couldn't see the top, I'd call it a butte. FYI, mesa can also refer to a table. A local (Omaha Nebraska) Mexican restaurant chain is named La Mesa, which they translate to The Table.
@@greybeard5123 How did Hoodoo become a Dakota thing when the term was created by and has been used for over a century by Black people in the South East (especially New Orleans)?
@@gacaptain I'm thinking they're referring to the use of the term for geological formations, specifically? I know "Dakota", while also being the name of a pair of US States, is the name of at least one Native American tribe/Nation, if not several. English and Spanish have both borrowed terms on occasion from various indigenous languages in the Americas (examples include "avocado" ,"teepee", "wigwam", "totem", "wampum", "maize" etc, just off the top of my head - oh! And "hurricane" too, if we include Carribean natives) so I could easily believe the use they're describing came from a native group that happened to use a similar pair of syllables? But yes, as I understand it, "hoodoo" is ALSO a term for a practice or set of practices of spiritual traditions and/or folk magic that are common among people whose ancestors were brought to the Americas (specifically the Carribean, I think?) as slaves from the West African region. As an outsider to those traditions, I'm not 100% sure on what the exact distinction is between "hoodoo" and either Voodoo or Santeria (the latter being also a set of religious traditions and folk magic practices drawn from West Africa and spread or formed via the results of the importation of people from that region to the Carribean as slaves, but apparently quite distinct from Voodoo), so I can't comment on specifics. I've been told the terms are not interchangeable, though, so there's that.
In the southeastern U.S. "hoodoo" is similar to voodoo. The term can also be used to describe trickery. "Don't let him hoodoo you." A similar term is "hoodwink".
I have a Hyundai. Pronounced Highun-day in Korea, the US, Canada (2 syllables). For some reason in the UK/Commonwealth it is pronounced Hi-oon-die (3 syllables). Not sure why it is mispronounced since it is a proper noun-the name of a company. Please spread the word (pun intended)!
Snowbird is living in a different part of the country part of the year. Example: New Yorkers who may winter in the south (Florida, the Carolinas or southwestern states). Having two residences in different parts of the country.
You guys got a bit mixed up on Snowbirds. They’re people who, for most of the year live in colder states (or Canada), but have a place in a southern state like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Southern California, etc that they spend winters in to escape the snow (…because “birds fly south in the winter”). So they’re northerners who dislike the cold. The term is regularly used here in South Florida, most often by people who work in service/hospitality to describe how snowbird season brings good business or locals complaining about snowbirds causing the worst months for traffic/parking/etc.
Being from New Mexico this one was really good lol. We actually spell it posole in New Mexico but it's pozole I guess other places and it's amazing with New Mexico chile. I was surprised how many I knew because the Southwest is such a huge area. Good work guys
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Snowbirds are retired people who spend the winter in hotter parts of the country like the southwest or gulf coast region, and spend the summers in the colder parts of the country like the midwest, New England or even Canada. They can therefore avoid be in each region during its most pleasent time of year and avoid the extreme weather.
When people ask I just say that they are like the geese who fly south for the winter lol.
Yeah I live in AZ. And we get a ton every year. Annoying af
*Annoying as in traffic wise
@@CutitOutE Canadians and everyone else drive like they're back home 😮💨
@@CutitOutE I live in AZ as well, while they are annoying, they do bring their money into AZ which boosts the economy.
I think of it more as a bad term for all the old people
They cause accidents and drive 15 mph under the speed limit
We hate them in AZ lol
Btw hatch Chile on eggs is AMAZING! It’s actually amazing on everything
Snowbirds are people (usually retired) who live in the northern states during the spring, summer, and most of the fall then spend the winter months in warm climate states' favorites are Florida or Arizona. Many of my friends are snowbirds. Many in Michigan wear short pants outside during the winter months. Menudo is a delicious soup. Cows have 4 stomachs but Menudo is made from only 2 the reticulum amd omasum which are the 2 middle stomachs.
I believe Laurence is going to be doing the "town names" videos for all 50 states, so you might want to get a whiteboard to keep score 😅And Millie is correct with the LL. *But Laurence is wrong with snowbirds, they don't move, they migrate.* They go back home when it warms up. Just like birds travelling south for the winter.
Wouldn't Laurence be a great history teacher?? 🤍💯
It used to be exclusively used for people who moved South and then went back North but now there's so many permanent snowbirds especially that they kind of get grouped in with the temporary seasonal snowbirds.
@@LizJasonHEA I've always known retirees that relocate as "blue hairs" lol
@@LizJasonHEA people who endure the summer heat are not Snowbirds.
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Hatch Chiles have to come from that region of New Mexico just like real tequila must come from Jalisco, Mexico. Anything else is just green chile
You got it backwards. Snowbirds are northerners who flock to Florida and the Southwest during winter time to avoid the snow and cold weather in their home states.
yep... they fly south for the winter lol
They go to other Southeastern states too.
I am much more familiar w snowbirds in Florida than in Arizona. Half our church is snowbirds.
And yes, they have homes here wintering in the Desert. Many were clients of mine.
@@dethisbtfl Alot of them fly but alot of them drive I-75 through my state of Georgia. Boy.. do they ever.🤦🏾
A person who leaves their snowy home to "winter" in the SW.
Hatch actually speaks to the name of the town in southern NM where the chile is grown, it is the perfect climate to grow green chile
OK I so enjoyed watching James is amazement when he found out how paella is actually supposed to be pronounced 😆
Snowbirds are people that have two homes. One up north and one in the south. In the winter they travel to the south because the winters are mild and during the summer they then travel back up north. That is why they are called Snowbirds. They fly south for the winter.
Yeah, James seems to have misunderstood the explanation given.
Similar to the word "snowbird" is one used to describe "skiing groupies" -- the young women who flock to ski lodges and latch on to the hunky skiers -- "snow bunnies".
Millie is on her game and not putting up with James. 😄 She has her teacher hat on!!
Lol right
I’m from Florida and I experience snowbirds. When it becomes to cold for the elderly up north… they would move here for warmer temperatures. 😆
Arroyo is old Spanish, from the Conquistadors. It's a dry river bed. They run dangerously fast with the desert rain.
My mom is from Albuquerque and told me she had a childhood friend who got caught in an arroyo and almost drowned
I live in Albuquerque and yes, it refers to the dry riverbed, but it also refers to the drainage canals. You may see canals with names such as Arroyo del Oso which literally translates to Stream of the Bear.
There's an arroyo called Arroyo Seco in California. One should be careful of avoiding flash floods throughout the southwest. There's a little notch canyon in California and one does not want to get caught in there if there is a rain storm upstream. One should always have checked the weather before entering something like that. Also, many people get in trouble who aren't used to the heat. Always have a lot of water. This is especially true if hiking through a sandy area. It's harder to walk and really sweats the water out of a person.
@@Anon54387 Fellow Californian here, It's funny that the term Arroyo Seco is redundant as Seco means dry, so Arroyo Seco literally means dry dry creek lol...
@@hawx00145 Or,, as Northern Californians would say, "hella dry creek."
As someone from Southern California it was hilarious watching people with absolutely no connection/reference to the area get every word so wrong lol
lol Same!
I live in Phoenix and this was painful to watch 🙈 haha
🤔 I think that you should deduct 2 points from your score. One for taking a point when you guessed hot & cold and it was a pepper. The other for trying to cheat and take a point for the aforementioned pepper. 🙂
"Mesa" is pronouned May-sa. A Butte is a single distinct steep-sided mountain or hill with a somewhat flat top, whereas, a Mesa is an elevated and flat formation that can span for immense distances, and can support whole farms, cities, neighborhoods, airports or other structures. I was raised in San Diego California, which has vast regions made of Mesas, like Serra Mesa, Kearney Mesa, Clairemont Mesa, etc.
I was also raised in San Diego. Maybe it’s a cultural but I don’t pronounce mesa as may-sa and neither did most people I know. It’s the same word as the Spanish word for table and people I know pronounce meh-sa. It gets this name because it looks similar to a table.
You pronounced it correctly the first time...May-sa is the "anglicized" pronunciation. It also means table by the way (Spanish)
@@anndeecosita3586 I know "mesa" is Spanish for "table", but I'm trying to represent the word phonetically, but don't know the best way to do it, so maybe you can do it.
@@heyjude042467 I know "mesa" is Spanish for "table", but I'm trying to represent the word phonetically, but don't know the best way to do it, so maybe you can do it.
@@VoxBox1 so the closest way phonetlocally would be meh-sa
I'm over 40 and have lived in the South Western US my entire life. I was surprised that 'mesa' was an unknown term, it's just something I've taken for granted. I was born in Mesa, AZ and currently live near the Grand Mesa in CO. It's just been a terribly common word throughout my life, it never crossed my mind that it was a regional thing.
I'd also like to add that Hatch green chile is a genuine part of South West culture. Throughout the four corners states (AZ, CO, UT, NM) it's everywhere. Out of season it's available canned in veritably every grocery store. When in season it's commonly found being sold by street vendors who roast them on the spot for their customers (which also produces a wonderful scent that brings people to them). Most years I learn chile season has started not by hearing about it or seeing it but by smelling it. It is a much loved local ingredient, we put it in just about everything we can. In my house the favored dish to use it in is a breakfast quiche.
I'm from La Mesa, Ca. Cousins?
Ohhh, I have Hatch Cheese popcorn on my desk. It is amazing!! Love Hatch Chiles... I thought about sending some but James and Millie don't seem to have palates for spice.
It is common. I live in the midwest and i knew what it was.
The Southwest is also home to the largest Native American reservation in the United States 😊 I love that you guys are reacting to the Southwest, we're always forgotten here lol. Love the video ❤️
shout out to @patrickisanavajo - one of my very most favorite youtube channels.
Agreed, we are the least talked about regions...
Right! We have so much to offer just with the different type of landscapes you can find and have the best, real Mexican food.
Seems like anything that isn't California (LA,SF) Texas (Houston DFW), New York or Florida is forgotten about lately. The Southwest has tons to offer. Not just with cultures but the sights are amazing. Forget the big cities. Mexican-American-Native food fusions you don't find other places. It's a great place. Anyone considering, come visit!
I live on one rez and work on another. Pretty cool.
I love in Tucson Arizona and we get a lot of snowbird’s. We have a lot of adobe homes here. There great they stay nice and cool in the heat. I really enjoy watching you both.
I live I New Mexico. A Butte is a smaller flat topped rock formation. Mesa is Spanish for table so wen refuring to mountains as Mesa, it literally means tabletop mountains. This can be an entire rage of mountains, as long as they are flat topped, they are Mesa.
A Snowbird is someone who moves from the north to the south to spend the winters so they don't' have to deal with the cold and all that comes with it.
The picture of the Hoodoo's was taken in Bryce Canyon National Park, located in the southwestern part of my home state, Utah.
"That accent over top of the N makes me think it's a jalepeno" I'm dying! Or it's just how you pronounce those letters in Spanish. You guys are great. There is no reason you should know these words so I'm not trying to mock you. That sentence just killed me.
The accent over the letter N is called a tilde
Being an over the road trucker, we drive to all 48 states, I can say the slight difference in words and accents can make communication tricky some days.
The put hatch chilies on everything. Pizza, hamburgers, soups, steaks, in corn dishes, with eggs, etc ....
Menudo was often a continuous stew in that you added more of whichever ingredients you had to make it more. As referenced by the Latino boy band Menudo whose members couldn't be over 17, so as they aged out, they were replaced by young new singers.
Chili is a soup, (chill ee)
Chile is a pepper. (chee lay)
Chile (as above) is also the south American country and is properly pronounced as you demonstrated.
Mesa (MAYSAH) also is the Spanish word for table.
Mesa is also the Spanish word for table.
The best Hoodoos are in Utah in Bryce Canyon National Park and in Arches National Park. They really are a must see.
I lived in Arizona for 18 years and you guys are cracking me up. Haboobs are no joke. You can't see 1 ft. in front your face. And snowbirds are great but they drive their Buicks and Mercury's really slow.
I’m from Southern California and my husband is from Missouri (he was stationed by me while in the Marine Corps, that’s how we met)..we have been married for 12yrs now and to this day him and his entire family cannot comprehend while we call the I-10 freeway “ The 10” …I’ve never in my life heard anyway out here say “ I’m on Interstate 10” rather we say “ I’m on the 10” 🤷♀️ It’s just funny to me that this is so unusual to them🤷♀️🤣🤣
This is yet another example of 'same language; yet not.' Love the videos guys.
"Pozole" is so good, same with "Menudo." Perfect for winter, holidays, special occasions or if you're just craving it. "Menudo" is also perfect for hangovers.
Menudo is actually perfect for hangover
I tried menudo once, it must be an acquired taste. And I've lived in south Texas most of my life.
I had Menudo for breakfast this morning! I am in faaaaar west Texas. Menudo is very common here...the odd thing is that most people here eat it on Sundays
Menudo is eaten on Sunday because it's a hangover cure. You get trashed Saturday night and have menudo for breakfast on Sunday. Usually after a large celebration like a wedding or whatever. Menudo is my favorite.
Menudo the band was ok.
Menudo the food is disgusting.
Tripe (a common ingredient in menudo) is doubly so.
A bunch of us have posted on Lost in the Pond videos that you want to collab with him. We will still continue to tell him till it comes true.
To your credit I have also heard Hoodoo used as an alternate of voodoo. I think it’s even in a movie with Kate Hudson called the Skeleton Key so give yourselves the point!
You missed the definition of snow bird. It is mostly older people that live in cold climates moving down south like to Florida that is really popular.
Snowbirds hate the cold, so they go South for the winter. I live in Florida. So I'm wicked familiar (and I lived in Maine for 12 years, so I use the adverb "wicked" a lot!) I live your videos-they're wicked good!
Hoodoo also means a type of voodoo; also, in baseball, it's a player who is considered a jinx. I have heard it used to mean "it's a cheat" in the Upstate Carolinas.
yes, I grew up along the North/South Carolina border & the practice of voodoo is not unusual among black people
Snowbirds are seasonal.
People shorten or avoid the Northern winter months.
I've been in Arizona almost my whole life and we just started to hear Haboob regularly about 5 or 6 years ago. Before it was just 'dust storm'
Right! I still call it dust storm and I don't know anyone who calls it haboob. I've lived in AZ my whole life.
I live in New Mexico and we (at least my family) call them dirt devils
We always called them dust devils.
@@sincerely_evelyn We called a dust storm a dust storm and a spinning column of dust like a tornado of dust any size a dust devil.
I hear people saying Haboob jokingly like it's a funny word.
Lawrence has already done another regional video. The western coast! Which includes California, Oregon, and Washington.
Beesley saying that Butte means beautiful reminds me of Steve Irwin.
I'm from Arizona.. I'm surprised about the word haboob. We got the worst dust storms, 350 ft wall of dust sweeping over the valley. It's considered a dust bowl, and monsoon rains from the southwest push the dust, which then settles over us. I don't love the use of word "haboob" as I've been told by soldiers in the middle east that our dust storms are nothing compared to what they see there, but that's what they call our storms on the news. Snowbirds are actually visitors to the area every year, not used when talking about peopke that have moved. Snowbirds are the MOST dreaded *visitors* in the winter season, there escaping bad weather in their own states. They are dreaded because they have a habit of driving their motor homes slowly in the fast lane with their blinkers (directionals) still on. But I've never run into a rude Snowbird. I'm gonna say a goid lot are from Canada. Mesa is spanish for table. Many of our words are adopted from Native American words, as well as Spanish words. Full point on Hatch Chile, you guys get that one for sure!
I'm a native of Arizona and watching you two react to this video was interesting. Our area doesn't get much attention compared to the South, New England, and the midwest so watching you react to our culture was entertaining. I'm also Mexican-American and Millie you're correct about the Spanish pronunciation of "ll". Pozole is a favorite of mine, ya'll should try it if you ever get the chance!
Native here too, but hello from East Texas.. I miss Arizona so much!
I agree our region doesn’t get much attention!
What do you mean?! I'm from New Mexico and our deserts our often used for movie locations. Tons of people from all around the world travel to Arizona and New Mexico to see the landscape. I think we get a lot of attention. But I guess everyone thinks differently.
@@MrChrisbtacos I think.. well at least I meant that you don't hear about it much. I rarely watch anything where they're talking about it. But there is a lot going on. I grew up 35 minutes from Tombstone, so I'm used to all the movie productions, but I never heard the name of my hometown mentioned anywhere.. except for it was the home of the first McDonald's drive thru haha
@@MrChrisbtacos I had culture in mind compared to other regions, it's not talked about much.
Okay guys let's talk about weather in the United states. In general the southern half of the 48 contiguous states not counting Hawaii and Alaska are warmer even hotter than the northern half of the country. Think the Southwest has deserts the southeast has hot summers and beaches in Florida and along the Atlantic coast. The further north you go the closer you get to the North Pole the colder it's going to be and the further south you go the closer you get to the equator the hotter is going to
Snowbirds especially older people don't enjoy the cold weather as much as they did when they were younger and they leave the cold weather and go south for the winter. Some of them move their permanently.
The reason they're called birds is because birds fly south for the winter to get away from the cold.
I’m 62 yrs old always living in the Midwest snd only knew maybe 4 of them. Hatch chilis are mild peppers fyi
In the San Francisco Bay Area, we say "hella" a lot!!! It's a Northern Cali thing! Even people in SoCal don't say it.
Tisk, tisk James...as an architect, you should have been familiar with the classic building material Adobe!! 🤣
That was fun. I grew up in New Mexico and missed some of those. However, I live in Las Cruces, about 40-minutes South of Hatch. Everywhere you go, from restaurants to jars of chile boast "Hatch Green Chile." Every hamburger has green chile as on option. Including many McDonalds. We just call mesas open desert. Go for a walk across open mesa. I've never heard them associated with buttes. Which you see a lot. Not like Devil's tower, from rock, but carved into the desert. So out of dirt. All the mexican food restaurants in town offer bowls of Pazole. Menudo at some of them. I'm not a big fan of cows stomach (tripe). As college students we would end a night of drinking at "Casa de Menudo" and my friend would get a bowl of menudo. Our major cities have mountains nearby and the run-off from heavy rains create Arroyos. Cities like Albuquerque create concrete arroyos going from the Sandia Mountains to the Rio Grande River to get more control over these very dangerous locations for run-off. People pass away from being caught off guard in arroyos.
Mesa's definitely are flat toped "table top" hills in the southwest. Hence the name Mesa which translates to "table" in Spanish. I've lived in the Southwest in NM and Arizona my entire life only missed the music ones but that was out of my Genre.
I also grew up in NM (Roswell and Albuquereque). We referred to the area to the northwest of downtown as the "West Mesa", although it is so large and flat you would have to be on the order of 100,00 ft above it to see that it is shaped that way. BTW - We also love Hatch chili, but here in Georgia everyone thinks it has to be super hot (which is obviously wrong).
@Steven Martin , Im Philly native transplanted to Vegas then Phoenix for 30 years. Now I live in Las Cruces as well. Besides the poor governance, I love New Mexico.
I use to live in the UK and my old landlords said hearing people in America say, "Have a nice day!" was annoying to them.
Even in Spanish there is more than one definition for words. Such as Mesa, it can mean table also. Pozole is from the Mexican Indians language but in Spanish the spelling changes to Posole.
Habu is a Arab word for dust storm. It is a recent word. 25 years ago it was not used in Arizona. So I don't recognize it as American
🤣 Snowbird is someone who flies away from the snow to warmer weather, this a southern word... when we used to live in south Florida there were so many who flocked for the winter 😲😳🤯
To be fair to James, hoodoo is also the word used for the magic practice within the voodoo religion, it’s the word occultists use when they use specific parts of voodoo and bastardize it. (Bastardize not meant with any negative connotation)
Hatch chile is Chile, both red & green, grown in Hatch, New Mexico
It's strange to hear how alien these labels are to people foreign to the States. I don't usually use those terms, but I know what they mean.
Pretty sure Snowbird is used everywhere in the US. Here in Ohio we always use it when winter comes because we know the old retired folk are going to somewhere like Flordia.
I don't live in the southwest, but I knew most of these words as there is a sizable Hispanic population around where I live; I've also visited Colorado quite a bit where some of these words are used quite a bit. Talking about Butte versus Mesa, is basically exactly how it's stated in the video. A butte is an isolated hill, Devil's Tower is a perfect example. Mesa is actually Spanish for table, hence the flat top, but a Mesa is much larger than a butte, taking up a large area. Grand Mesa in western Colorado is a good example, it's the largest flat-topped mountain in the world; it has an area of about 500 square miles and is almost 40 miles long.
Snowbird is a term I've heard used some where I live too, and it generally is someone who moves back and forth. Around me, it's mostly Arizona, people "fly south for the winter" hence "snowbird" and come back for the summer.
Grand Junction is a great place to retire. Good weather, good medical care, economical housing, it is the largest city between Denver & Salt Lake City.
Castillian and Mexican Spanish can be very different. Lots of particular usage and Native loan words.
One of my favorites is Chubasco.
Snowbird is common. Anne Murray had a hit song with that title in the 70s, and she's from Canada.
There are Narco-corridos... telling the tales and other things involving the drug trade.
I didn't know chiltepin... theres lots of different peppers.
No buzzing "z" sound.
(Posole)... the main ingredient is hominy. The same white corn used to make grits.
Arroyo, mesa (table), and butte are words you learn watching western movies with cowboys etc.
Cow stomach in Menudo is just the beginning of what i call Mexican soul food. Tongue (lengua) tacos are on every Taqueria menu
Poor people don't waste the edible parts... then it just becomes part of culture and reminds you of Grandmas house.
A Chubasco is a sudden rain shower on a nice day that only lasts a short time.
I learned the word in song lyrics by a famous Norteño group, Los Cadetes de Linares. Its very mellow music, mostly Boleros.. Ya'll should give it a listen.
You got the "Snowbird" definition reversed. It's a person who moves from a colder climate to a warmer climate during the winter.
First word off the bat is wrong. "haboob". Correct meaning is: Haboob 1.) Breast. Exp: "He grabbed haboob, and gave it a squeeze".
Snowbird leaves colder climate to travel to and stay in a warmer climate for the entire winter season associated with seniors because they are retired and do not have to stay in one area because of a job.
To be fair to Millie, arroyo is a Spanish word, but it's not Iberian Spanish, it's Mexican.
To be unfair to Millie, she thinks every word has to do with negative feelings and stupid people. I would watch out for that.
The most important thing to know about snowbirds, from my experience living nearly a decade in Arizona, is that they are generally 206 years old and drive recreational vehicles, navigating mainly by sense of touch.
To clarify, when Lawrence was talking about western music he meant music of the west, not Western Music, which is a product of Western Civilization, not western civilization, as there is no such thing as western civilization.
You may notice, in aggregate, most of the words that Lawrence cited had to do with rock formations. In the Southwest, that's pretty much what you've got going on. That's why the Southwest made a National Park out of The Grand Canyon, the world's largest hole in the ground which was dug, or so I'm told, when a Scotsman dropped a penny down a gopher hole.
P.S. My mother was born in Inverness. Please don't cancel me. Just in case, allow me to apologize to the Scots, in their own vernacular:
Allo' me tae apologee in th' maist humble 'n' grovelin' wey tae ony scotsman wha ah harm's wi' mah wee joke. Yer a' a braw fowk, a nation o' thinkers 'n' makers, wha totally dae nae drunk yer paychecks 'n' batter ilk ither in th' heid.
So there.
Posole with roasted Hatch green chilis is the absolute best!
I’m sorry i am from way up in the Midwest. I know non of these but the word snowbird.
Anyone out there from So Cal remember having to make Missions in elementary school 🤣🤣
"Pozole" literally refers to "Hominy" or Nixtamalized Maize (corn). It is a kind of hominy/pepper/tomato soup with other ingredients. It could indeed have seafood. Everybody's abuela (grandmother) has their own special recipe for pozole. Realistically, pozole can be just about any soup as long as it contains hominy, usually with some kind of meat although there are vegetarian versions. Menudo is basically Pozole made with tripe. The tripe makes it Menudo, although Menudo can be made without Hominy.
It my favorite choice at church dinners.
@@nancyjanzen5676 I used to have a foreman of Mexican heritage. On special occasions he'd make a 5 gallon stainless steel pot of pozole and serve it to the whole shop with corn chips and limes. He was a good guy.
I love in Florida and been meaning to try Pozole. It's in a lot of Mexican restaurants here.
@@SherriLyle80s Here in the Pacific Northwest we have a fairly large Hispanic population. You can find canned pozole in just about any grocery store. I can't vouch for how good it is, but I've seen it. I learned to make a version of it myself, usually with pork, tomatoes, and green chilies.
I live in Texas and love Pozole...i've had it all over Texas: Dallas, Houston, Ft. Worth, San Antonio, Galveston, and Austin😋
Mesa is also Spanish for table. . La mesa, so I guess the mountain/plain is flat on the top like a table
Since the U.S. is populated by people from all over the world, then native words from different countries would be integrated into different regions. We have cultural words from all over the world. We are very diverse as a nation.
It’s not just being close to Mexico that accounts for the Spanish influence. The southwest U.S. was part of Mexico and/or settled by Spain for a long time before it was part of the U.S.
I live just south of the area where the Hatch valley is.
I've lived in Arizona and Las Vegas Nevada all my life and I haven't heard most of these words. Snowbirds I knew and I'd heard the words Arroyo and Mesa before but usually just as names of housing communities. I think most of the words on this list are actually words used in Mexico to describe the SW USA.
Hmmm. That’s strange. I see alot of people from the SW. in the comments saying they are very familiar with all these words. Funny how that works. I’m from the South East and I knew a few of these but not most of them.
I've lived in Phoenix my whole life and knew all but "chiltepin". I feel like these are very common words out here
Colorado here! I got most right… but I’m a linguist so I feel like it’s not fair.
Snowbirds can live more cheaply down south in the winter because their electric and gas bills are so high up north due to the temperature difference. That's probably why they are older people. Air-conditioning bills are higher in the south so they go back home when it starts warming up.
Plus they LOVE being able to golf in shorts and tshirts in January
@@purpleskiesforever hahaha yep
My father is a snowbird. He spends his winters in Arizona. The weather in Wisconsin is freezing cold and can have higher humidity making it harder for him the breath with his old age. Arizona is hot but dry. No humidity.
Must visit in SW Colorado: Mesa Verde ancient cliff dwellings (and get yourself a Navajo Taco) 🏔🏞 🌮
Hoodoo is also an African American spiritual practice, voodoo is as well but voodoo is only allowed in the sacred places and hoodoo is practiced outside of the temples, it comes from African spirituality, and hoodoo is generally frowned upon in the eyes of the voodoo practitioners. It's very popular in new Orleans.
OK that's what I thought. I was all thrown off by this rock thing.
Yeah, James was close enough he definitely should get a point, retroactively.
many people are ignorant about the practice of voodoo in the deep south
That’s the hoodoo meaning I’m more familiar with but I figured since he was being region specific that wasn’t what it meant. A lot of my friends from NOLA hate being stereotyped as being practicers of voodoo/hoodoo but the area makes money off of marketing this. I remember buying a voodoo doll in the French Quarter and there’s a music festival called Voodoo Fest.
We don't even call coriander coriander, especially in the southwest. We call that cilantro.
Think migrating...a bird? A northerner moving south for the window
Now I'm craving a hatch chili burger...omg, so good.
Regarding to "Snowbird." I used to work health insurance customer service, this older guy kept asking about Snowbird policies. I had zero idea what he meant, no one around me did as well. Instead of explaining what he meant, he continued to insult me for not knowing what he meant. I had to firmly tell him it would not be tolerated, and I'd be willing to help, but he had to help me help him, he got an attitude and proceeded with insults so I disconnect the call. Turns out the proper term is multi-state policy, ultimately depends on the health insurance provider. Most policies are only available by state. Sad I could of helped, but being an ass to customer service gets you no where.
Escalate the ticket. Magic words! 🤣
you should let your bosses know. they should have trained you better.
Haboob is not Southwestern, it's Middle Eastern...like Arabia. It's a dust storm. Out here (in New Mexico) we have dust devils.
Yeah, the news channels are the ones who pushed the term in Phoenix
Its also a clear tell of how many people have played Cyberpunk 2077 lol.
It is indeed used in Arizona to describe a huge dust storm.
@@augustusgrim1446 it wasn't 20 years ago
@@sikksotoo not even 10 years ago. Just heard it once in awhile and then it somehow became the official word for it about 6 years or so ago.
Menudo is an awesome cure for a hangover.. fun fact
Check your spelling 'chili' refers to to a prepared food while 'chile' refers to a pepper.
Southwest is more Spanish influence, while Southeast is more UlsterScots and French, Old British influence. Weatherwise, in the Southwest they have dust storms and southeast it is strictly tornadoes.
I’m from the Northeast in the U.S. Not to show my ignorance but I haven’t a clue what Haboob, Arroyo, Corrido, Chiltepin, Pozole, Norteno mean! LOL … in fact I’ve never heard of any of these 6 words before…🤔 Interesting… I could be a snowbird though lol by going South for the Winter :0) This was so much fun!
Being from Ohio in the USA I got a grand total of 4 right. Adobe, snow bird (people that don't like the cold ) butte, and Hoodoo (because I've been to Bryce Canyon)
Just so you both know, the word salsa is Spanish for sauce. And when Americans say salsa instead of sauce it always means a Hispanic/Latin sauce that is spicy. For example in a Mexican restaurant a person who says I want Green Salsa on my burrito, he or she means the spicy green sauce.
Salsa is also a sexy dance which fast paced erotic in nature
Or salsa verde
@@andie22311 Yes, you are correct. I said green instead of verde because most Americans are not going to know how to say green in Spanish.
@@ESUSAMEX Not always hot, but definitely more flavorful. Salsa Verde can be just the green tomatillos with seasoning vs with peppers.
Millie, I am sure Britain is very interesting, and US citizens would enjoy to see what life is like where you live.
I had no idea Jersey even existed before I started watching them. I love hearing them talk about the island.
In the Spongebob Movie Video Game (2004), one line Spongebob says is "Talk about pretty rocks, Patrick - This one's a BUTTE! Dahahahahahah".
Speaking of Adobe, Fun Fact: The Catholic people who came to California forced the Natives to build their missions, or die! Neato!
The Architect trainie didn't know Adobe? Oh dear.
Snowbird is NOT a Southwest term, it's used all over the US. Oh the embarrassment of you guys missing that was so huge. And then you still got it wrong. Snowbirds are people who go SOUTH for the winter, like birds migrating south to avoid the cold and snow.
Butte is also used all over the US, anyone who went to school in this country should know that word and if they don't they need to go back to school.
Mesa also is one that is used all over the nation, but like Butte they only exist in the southwest. Both of these should actually be well known around the world. In this country we must learn more about the world than Britain because we learn about geological formations world wide.
How about you just jab it in and twist it?? Lol
I agree with what you're saying, and bless your heart for explaining it to them anyway. You know they're in Britain, but you expect them to know what it's like to live in southwest America?? Are you OK??
I agree many of these are used outside the southwest. I think Hoodoo is actually more of a Dakota thing than southwest. And Haboob originated in the Mideast.
I knew 6, claim partial credit for 3 more, and got 4 wrong.
I think of butte as a formation rising above the land around it, and mesa as a large flat area. A mesa can be elevated, but flatness is its main feature. A butte's main feature is it sticks up a lot and the edges are cliffs. The sides of a mesa can be hills, cliffs, or anything. If I was standing on top of a large butte and couldn't see the sides, I'd call it a mesa. If I was standing next to the same formation and couldn't see the top, I'd call it a butte.
FYI, mesa can also refer to a table. A local (Omaha Nebraska) Mexican restaurant chain is named La Mesa, which they translate to The Table.
@@greybeard5123 How did Hoodoo become a Dakota thing when the term was created by and has been used for over a century by Black people in the South East (especially New Orleans)?
@@gacaptain I'm thinking they're referring to the use of the term for geological formations, specifically? I know "Dakota", while also being the name of a pair of US States, is the name of at least one Native American tribe/Nation, if not several. English and Spanish have both borrowed terms on occasion from various indigenous languages in the Americas (examples include "avocado" ,"teepee", "wigwam", "totem", "wampum", "maize" etc, just off the top of my head - oh! And "hurricane" too, if we include Carribean natives) so I could easily believe the use they're describing came from a native group that happened to use a similar pair of syllables?
But yes, as I understand it, "hoodoo" is ALSO a term for a practice or set of practices of spiritual traditions and/or folk magic that are common among people whose ancestors were brought to the Americas (specifically the Carribean, I think?) as slaves from the West African region.
As an outsider to those traditions, I'm not 100% sure on what the exact distinction is between "hoodoo" and either Voodoo or Santeria (the latter being also a set of religious traditions and folk magic practices drawn from West Africa and spread or formed via the results of the importation of people from that region to the Carribean as slaves, but apparently quite distinct from Voodoo), so I can't comment on specifics. I've been told the terms are not interchangeable, though, so there's that.
California is Southwest, West, AND Northwest lol. She's kinda big.
In the southeastern U.S. "hoodoo" is similar to voodoo.
The term can also be used to describe trickery. "Don't let him hoodoo you." A similar term is "hoodwink".
I have a Hyundai. Pronounced Highun-day in Korea, the US, Canada (2 syllables). For some reason in the UK/Commonwealth it is pronounced Hi-oon-die (3 syllables). Not sure why it is mispronounced since it is a proper noun-the name of a company. Please spread the word (pun intended)!
Snowbird is living in a different part of the country part of the year. Example: New Yorkers who may winter in the south (Florida, the Carolinas or southwestern states). Having two residences in different parts of the country.
You guys got a bit mixed up on Snowbirds. They’re people who, for most of the year live in colder states (or Canada), but have a place in a southern state like Florida, Texas, Arizona, Southern California, etc that they spend winters in to escape the snow (…because “birds fly south in the winter”). So they’re northerners who dislike the cold.
The term is regularly used here in South Florida, most often by people who work in service/hospitality to describe how snowbird season brings good business or locals complaining about snowbirds causing the worst months for traffic/parking/etc.
Being from New Mexico this one was really good lol. We actually spell it posole in New Mexico but it's pozole I guess other places and it's amazing with New Mexico chile. I was surprised how many I knew because the Southwest is such a huge area. Good work guys
New Mexico is famous for it!