Comments on: Mexico Sweet Mexico http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm Online magazine about living, working and traveling in Merida and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Linda http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-132523 Linda Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:08:11 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=82#comment-132523 Hi! What a wonderful website!! My father was born in Yucatan, my first husband was from Yucatan and my first child was born there!! I was on a 6 week vacation and ended up spending 6 months there! We stayed with his mother in the house which he grew up in. Reading your different pages brought back old memories. I love Yucatan, the people, the culture and the food. It was hard to imagine that even 35 yrs ago some people still had dirt floors (which incidently, were cleaner than some tile floors I have seen here!!), no indoor plumbing and still cooked with lenia (wood) stuffed between 3 big rocks holding up the pot or pan. Talk about a humbleing experience!! I remember the first time I washed clothes by hand and the first time I swept a dirt floor!! What an experience!!! LOL Oh and giving birth at home in a hamaca with a midwife attending the birth. No doctor, no stirups, no drugs for pain....but we did have scissors....a pot of boiling water, and thread to tie off the umbilical cord....(all the necessary tools of birthing! LOL) The simple life was really beautiful. And I can totally relate to the recipes where you go out back and pick naranjas agrias, herba buena, menta and other ingredients. I don't recall any mention of the panadero who would come by twice a day with fresh bread in a big tub on his head, or the milk man who would come by in his 'little house on the prarie' horse and buggy carrying a big milk jug and a laddle selling milk. But then again I was in a little town not in Merida. Any how, let me just say I probably stayed there about 2 yrs total, but 6 months at a time. I loved it and would love to go back just to see how much things have progressed since I was there. Thanks for the wonderful website. I love it. I am planning on sending the link to my daughter who was born there. Linda Hi! What a wonderful website!! My father was born in Yucatan, my first husband was from Yucatan and my first child was born there!! I was on a 6 week vacation and ended up spending 6 months there! We stayed with his mother in the house which he grew up in. Reading your different pages brought back old memories. I love Yucatan, the people, the culture and the food. It was hard to imagine that even 35 yrs ago some people still had dirt floors (which incidently, were cleaner than some tile floors I have seen here!!), no indoor plumbing and still cooked with lenia (wood) stuffed between 3 big rocks holding up the pot or pan. Talk about a humbleing experience!!

I remember the first time I washed clothes by hand and the first time I swept a dirt floor!! What an experience!!! LOL Oh and giving birth at home in a hamaca with a midwife attending the birth. No doctor, no stirups, no drugs for pain….but we did have scissors….a pot of boiling water, and thread to tie off the umbilical cord….(all the necessary tools of birthing! LOL)

The simple life was really beautiful. And I can totally relate to the recipes where you go out back and pick naranjas agrias, herba buena, menta and other ingredients. I don’t recall any mention of the panadero who would come by twice a day with fresh bread in a big tub on his head, or the milk man who would come by in his ‘little house on the prarie’ horse and buggy carrying a big milk jug and a laddle selling milk. But then again I was in a little town not in Merida.

Any how, let me just say I probably stayed there about 2 yrs total, but 6 months at a time. I loved it and would love to go back just to see how much things have progressed since I was there.

Thanks for the wonderful website. I love it. I am planning on sending the link to my daughter who was born there.

Linda

]]> By: Working Gringos http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-108760 Working Gringos Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:02:33 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=82#comment-108760 You didn't mention WHERE he is in Mexico, but no, any candy isn't going to pass through customs in our experience. If you're really serious about this, you might try ordering some chocolate to be delivered to him from Mexico. There's a great chocolate shop here in Merida that makes chocolate to rival Godiva or any gourmet chocolate we have ever tasted. If you want to order some of that to be sent, we could figure out a way to put you in touch with them. You didn’t mention WHERE he is in Mexico, but no, any candy isn’t going to pass through customs in our experience.
If you’re really serious about this, you might try ordering some chocolate to be delivered to him from Mexico. There’s a great chocolate shop here in Merida that makes chocolate to rival Godiva or any gourmet chocolate we have ever tasted. If you want to order some of that to be sent, we could figure out a way to put you in touch with them.

]]> By: Andrea http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-108755 Andrea Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:06:03 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=82#comment-108755 So, my husband is in Mexico for an installation he's doing for his job. I was planning on sending him a box of goodies since we will miss Valentine's Day together again. I had included a lolli-pop and a bag of airheads. Will it not make it to his destination??! :[ So, my husband is in Mexico for an installation he’s doing for his job. I was planning on sending him a box of goodies since we will miss Valentine’s Day together again. I had included a lolli-pop and a bag of airheads. Will it not make it to his destination??! :[

]]> By: Blue http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-75238 Blue Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:09:55 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=82#comment-75238 Hey, i`m from germany and was in mexiko this summer... there, i loved the gummy bears panditas so much...does anybody know how i can buy them to have some here in germany? Hey,
i`m from germany and was in mexiko this summer… there, i loved the gummy bears panditas so much…does anybody know how i can buy them to have some here in germany?

]]> By: Donald Simon http://www.yucatanliving.com/culture/mexico-sweet-mexico.htm/comment-page-1#comment-74582 Donald Simon Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:00:45 +0000 http://www.yucatanliving.com/blog/?p=82#comment-74582 I've lived in the Philippines for seven years and have learned that both Mexico and the Philippines have much in common. One is the culture and export of sugar cane. Sugar cane was introduced in the Philippines by the Spanish via Mexico. I'll have to do some history studying to determine if sugar cane is indigeous in Mexico or came with the Spanish across the ocean. Anyway both cultures today love their sweets in any form, particulary soft drinks which are much heavier in sugar then the U.S. I’ve lived in the Philippines for seven years and have learned that both Mexico and the Philippines have much in common. One is the culture and export of sugar cane. Sugar cane was introduced in the Philippines by the Spanish via Mexico. I’ll have to do some history studying to determine if sugar cane is indigeous in Mexico or came with the Spanish across the ocean. Anyway both cultures today love their sweets in any form, particulary soft drinks which are much heavier in sugar then the U.S.

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