Freep Geography, 101; Angry At Spain, No More Taco Bell!

[K8-EEE]

Would I make this up?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098021/posts

Hard to tell if the guy was kidding -- they are all soooo stupid!

[IrateCitizen]

1. Some fascinating DU serendipity for you, K8-EEE

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1234310#1234441

The Freepers are nothing if they are not predictable in their reactionary ignorance.

[K8-EEE]

4. WHOA!! That Is Amazing!

Wow! You guys sure called that one.

They're playing Hard Pelota!

Well...I'm sending the new Spanish Prez a big mushy congrats letter.

As usual the Freeps miss the point completely. The Spanish people RESENTED BEING MISLED. Ousted the Mis-Leaders. Same thing will happen here in November.

btw what kind of "democracy" is Bush supporting when he has this country who are 90% opposed to his unnecessary war shoved into against their will?

[Gildor Inglorion]

14. Isn't he Prime Minister?

Head of government, not chief of state; in Spain it's King Juan Carlos. In our lucky country, the Smirkmeister is both head of government and chief of state, but O please! not much longer.

[Kellanved]

18. yup

But the actual title is "Presidente del Gobierno"; which can be translated to "President of the Government", or "Prime Minister".
"President" is an incorrect translation, a sure sign of a reporter not having done his homework.

And guess whose page is making the mistake ...
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030923-5.html

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. Spain has a "Presidente del Gobierno,"

The US has a "Presidente del Goober"...

[VTMechEngr]

2. it was only a matter of time

LOL

[MsUnderstood]

3. Wow! that was scary

I wonder how many Spaniards said "Serves those capitalist pigs right for voting in that special ed cowboy. . ." when 9/11 happened?

That is really a sad display of humanity.

Excuse me -- I think I need delousing now.

[rumguy]

5. one of them wants to start an email campaign to the new PM

like he would give a shit what Freepers think

[GOPisEvil]

6. That's the best laugh I have had all morning!

No more Taco Bell? Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

What a genius.

[mmm]

11. this is too funny

what kind of mind comes up with thoughts like that?

[IrateCitizen]

12. One in which the brain stem exercises disproportionate influence

:evilgrin:

[SOS]

29. The same type of mind

that doesn't read the New York Times, attacks the New York Times on FR and eventually has to apologize to the New York Times because he was mistakenly quoting an Australian source.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/weekinreview/14bott.html?pagewanted=2

Scroll down a little way

[zbdent]

38. Okay, Hell hath frozen over

Imagine that.

A Freeper apologizing to the NY Times.

This, after Charlie Brown scoring the game winning home run in a baseball game (honest, it did happen!), give me pause to wonder if the world is truly coming to an end.

[mhr]

7. Can There Be A Dumber Or More Ignorant Group On The Planet

From The Following Web Site Under "Our Company"

http://www.tacobell.com/

"Alone we are delicious... together, we're YUM!
Yum! Brands, Inc., a Fortune 300 company, operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers and A&W restaurants worldwide. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Yum! Brands is the world’s largest quick-serve restaurant company in terms of system units — more than 30,000 restaurants around the world in more than 100 countries and territories. Yum! Brands’ five brands, A&W, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, are global leaders of their respective restaurant categories. Yum! Brands' global system sales totaled more than $22 billion in the year 2001. We believe in people, trust in positive intentions, encourage ideas from everyone and actively develop a workforce that is diverse in style and background.

YUM! Brands is committed to conducting its business in an ethical, legal and socially responsible manner. To encourage compliance with all legal requirements and ethical business practices, Yum has established this Supplier Code of Conduct (the "Code") for Yum's U.S. suppliers ("Suppliers").

YUM! Brands is committed to ensuring the well being and humane treatment of animals. For this reason, we have established a system to ensure that the very best conditions are maintained and appropriate procedures are followed at all our suppliers' facilities."

[BiggJawn]

15. They must eat there a LOT.

All that FAT (74 gms in a "Nr. 6") went to their brainstems....
Just like a Freeper, ain't it?

"Mexican" Fast-Food=Spanish Cuisine...

[Bozita]

16. Yup, I'm boycotting Taco Bell. Let's go to A&W or Pizza Hut or KFC instead

We'll fix them Spanicians!

lol

[Ganja Ninja]

36. I'm adding Tostitos to that list.

[prolesunited]

8. What a bunch of MORANS!!!

:silly:

[Gman]

9. Like other nations send hate mail to Kerry or other Democrats

or even Republicans and Bush. How embarrassing for America. But then again, the rest of the world expects as much from America's nuts and only from America's nuts because the rest of the world has so much more class than these people.

[GOPisEvil]

10. We really do have some arrogant people in this country, don't we?

Like Zapatero really gives a flying crap about what a bunch of knuckle-dragging idiots in the US think.

[SoCalDem]

13. Crash..Boom.. Those are the sounds of designer paella pans

being tossed from McMansion windows...all over RepubLand..:)

here's a recipe..in case you "find" one of those pans..

Paella



Paella is a typical Spanish dish and is traditionally cooked in a "paellera" - a round flat pan with two handles - which is then put on the table. It is normally made using shellfish but can also be made with chicken or rabbit. In many Spanish villages, especially in coastal areas, they use a giant paellera to cook a paella on festival days which is big enough to feed everybody.

A paella is very flexible so if you don’t have the exact ingredients or if you find some of them hard to get hold of, substitute them for something similar. Getting fresh shellfish can be a problem, but you can always use frozen fish and use fish stock instead of water to increase the flavour.

There are literally hundreds of ways to cook a paella and every cook has their own favourite recipe. Here’s mine (it will serve 6 people depending on how hungry you are):

INGREDIENTS:

1 small onion, finely chopped
1 green pepper, finely chopped

½ red pepper, boiled until soft and then cut into long thin strips

2 medium-sized tomatoes, skinned and finely chopped

2 carrots, finely chopped

100g peas, cooked

200g prawns (if using cooked prawns substitute fish stock for the water)

200g small clams

200g squid

12 mussels

350g rice (traditionally short grain rice is used but I prefer to use long grain)

2 cloves of garlic, coarsely chopped

a pinch of saffron strands (if you can’t get saffron, use yellow food colouring instead and add it once you have added the liquid)

a sprig of parsley, finely chopped

olive oil

about 800ml water

PREPARATION:
MUSSELS: Wash the mussels, removing the beards. Throw away any that don’t shut on contact with water.

FRESH SQUID: Rub off the outer dark skin. Pull out the insides (including the transparent back bone) and pinch the eye away from the tentacles. Save the tentacles. Cut the squid into rings.

CLAMS: Wash in water and then put in a bowl with some salt so that the grit comes out. Throw away any that are open.

PRAWNS: Whether you peel them or not is up to you. If you decide to peel them, save the shells and boil in water for about ten minutes. Save the liquid and add later instead of water.

GARLIC: In a pestle and mortar, grind the garlic, saffron (if using), parsley and a pinch of salt.

RECIPE:

Heat some olive oil in a large frying pan. Add the onion, green pepper and carrot and fry gently for about five minutes. Add the chopped tomato and squid (with the tentacles) and fry on a low heat for another ten minutes.

Add the rice and stir well to make sure that it is thoroughly coated. Add water (or the water from boiling the prawn shells or fish stock if using frozen fish), clams and the garlic/saffron/parsley mixture and bring to the boil. Season with salt. Put a lid on it, turn the heat right down and cook very slowly for about ten minutes. Add the prawns and peas and give it a stir. Arrange the mussels and strips of red pepper artistically on top, put the lid back on and leave for another ten minutes - checking that it has enough water. If you think it is getting too dry, add more water, but shake the handle of the pan rather than stir so as not to upset the pattern. Once the rice is cooked and the mussels have opened, it is ready to eat.

¡Qué aproveche!

[Atlant]

22. Sorry; can't use that recipe. It's got them damned Yurpean measurements!

Mini Lighters? Qubic Sensometers?

Sorry; can't use that recipe. It's got them damned Yurpean measurements!

Ahh only make recipes (and ain't that a damned French word?) that talks
in good old 'Murican units like Cups, Saucers, and pounds of lard!

Atlant

[K8-EEE]

27. Saffron Sales Plummet As Freeps Boycott Paella!

The commie squid & mussel sellers will be begging and pleading for mercy as the Red States squash squid industry...

[WoodrowFan]

17. Did anybody correct them?

by pointing out it's an American-owned MEXICAN food (kinda) resturant??

[JohnLocke]

24. Yes. Tons of people yelled at the guy.

Proves that some freepers are psuedo-intelligent.

[K8-EEE]

28. He Then Said: "El Torito?"

LOL!

[erpowers]

19. Some Republicans are Stupid

This is another example of the stupidity of some Republicans. I think we all remember what happened when France decided to speak against the war. Some in Congress changed the name of French Fries to Freedom Fries. They also did not take the time to consider French Fries came from Belgium and not France. Therefore, they were not hurting the French with the name change. Not that the people of belgium really cared either. Now one suggests not eating a Taco Bell even though Taco Bell is an American company. The only good thing about this persons suggestion is that they will be helping to get Bush out of office. Not supporting Taco Bell would just keep the economy down and hurt Bush's chances of getting elected. Wouldn't that be fun, Bush done in by the hate of his Repbulican supporters.

[eissa]

20. That is just too funny

Sad, but funny. So I can see the debate about where repukes want to go for lunch:
"Taco Bell?"
"Oh no, they did not support our great leader in the war on terra; they elected a terrorist lover. No more taco bell for me."
"Ok, how about the Tapas bar?"
"Tapas? Yeah, that sounds good."

[samsingh]

21. and these freepers have the gall

to critique others. they are entirely, frighteningly ignorant.

[onehandle]

25. Oh no! Can Spanish Fly be far behind?

How will Freepers seduce their female relatives?

[stevedeshazer]

26. I just can't stop laughing....

You guys are killing me....

You just can't make this stuff up...unless you're Tyler Durden, I guess!

[CatWoman]

32. Same here , SD

this thread is killing me.

and a special thumbs up to Tyler Durden -- he always nails it.

[SoCalDem]

35. Where's TylerDurden's post?? I don't see it..

:shrug:

[IrateCitizen]

37. It's in reference to another thread...

... in which he predicted that a Freeper would call for this very boycott before the day was out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1234310#1234441

He's omniscient, that Tyler!

[zbdent]

30. Another freepup - TB and company (KFC and Pizza Hut) are

freeptards, aren't they?

Weren't they the ones who defined Ahnold as "Beef" and Davis as "soft" and "chicken"?

Literally "eating their own". Or not.

This would be hilarious.

[DinahMoeHum]

31. "No More Taco Bell"?? Bwahahahahaaaa!!!

n/t

:evilgrin:

[ComerPerro]

33. FReepers don't care about deaths elsewhere

Within the first ten posts, I saw a post saying that they essentially didn't suffer enough casualties for anyone to care.

Fascist, nationalistic assholes.

[Joanne98]

34. The six degrees of Spanish separation

Just like the six degrees of Muslim separation. the "others" are all connected somehow.

[Toucano]

39. <<Uncontrollable laughter>>

I would have sworn you were making it up!

It's like something from a sitcom.

Thanks for the laugh! Man, that was good!

[Endangered Specie]

40. so what now? freedom bell?

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

41. Actually a funny Freeper joke

First one I've seen.

[K8-EEE]

45. I Saw One Recently It Went Like This:

One of the Freeps was saying how the job statistics are skewed by Evil Lib Media and actually we are all doing GREAT as self-employed "consultants" and they weren't COUNTING THAT!

This went flat even in freepville, where one of them said: I'm making a cheeseburger tonight, question: Am I an independent manufacturer? And this other one says, "Yes....hey now I'm a Manufacturing Consultant!

[Arkana]

42. HA HA HA HA

What a bunch of whining bitches. Surprise, surprise! There are places in the world where democracy is alive and well. Sadly, this nation is not one of them. Freepers are nothing but a bunch of brainwashed whiners who worship that pretender to the American presidency.

[mike1963]

43. I've been to Spain. They do have lots of bells but never ever saw a taco

there...
:eyes:

[K8-EEE]

46. No But I Saw Plenty TORTILLAS -- HEY TRY THIS RECIPE!

OK, slice up 5 white rose potatoes real thin -- like with a food processor. Fry them up in hot hot hot olive oil, remove with a slotted spoon. They fry up a couple of diced onions & 5 cloves of garlic and remove....drain all but 1 T of oil from the pan, beat 8 eggs and throw them in the pan, add potatoes, onions, garlic and turn the heat down. After 10 minutes or so, invert it out on a plate -- then slip it back in the pan to cook the other side.

Cut it into little wedges, eat, drink and be merry. Goes great with that Serrano ham, olives, bread & sangria. Salud!

VIVA ESPANA!

[Piperay]

44. "Taco Bell"????

ROTFLMAO I guess they don't know that Spain and Mexico are two DIFFERENT places on two DIFFERENT continents. :silly:

[xeximian1243]

47. Zapatero did it?

Did the Spanish Socialists stage this bombing to win an election that they would have certainly lost? Is Zapatero allied with ETA? What is the connection between the Spanish Socialists and the anti-American Euro-anarchists? Stay tuned for more surprises my friends. Where is CNN? Where is the BBC? Who shot JFK?

[osaMABUSh]

48. Chrissakes DU has more posts on a FReeper thread than FR

We have more posts commenting on their thread on Spain than they have on the entire subject. While DU has about a dozen serious discussions on Spain, elections, and terror.

Where have all the Freepers gone?