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.
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🤷♀️🤣🤣
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
Birds fly south during the winter months, Snowbirds are people live in area that get snow in the winter that fly to Warmer parts for the winter months.
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...
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!
"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.
He gave the worst possible definition for snowbird! They're northerners(mostly retired) who come down from colder states during the winter months to states like Florida or Arizona. There's usually a lot of them and clog up our roads and cause most of the states(Florida) accidents.
Outside of the US South West there is a slang word that is "beaut". To call something "a beaut" is to call it beautiful. In usage: "That car is a beaut." or "Isn't that car a beaut?"
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
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.
I live on the other side of snowbird migration. They spend 6 months and a day in a warm climate to avoid the snow of winter and avoid the takes of the cooler places. Then they spend the hot time of the year somewhere cool. Still that doesn’t always work out for them since we often get several days of 32C or hotter despite getting a meter or two of snow in winter. A few years back we had a summer with a 41C day and over 3 meters of snow at once.
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.
I'm in CA and every year people from Canada or cold climates come to Palm Springs to enjoy nice weather, then return to Canada or any other cold climate when spring or summer comes back around. Cheers
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.
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
"Snowbirds" is a nickname for people who split their time between a southern state and somewhere north - so that they don't have to be in the cold weather. This is not a word that is localized in the southwest. It is used all over the country
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.
Here in Southern Texas we get a lot of snowbirds. Here in America migratory birds fly south for winter for the warmer weather. So seniors who live in Northern states drive south for warmer weather
"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.
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'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!
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.
I lived in Arizona for 20 years so I've heard of adobe but my grandpa and great grandpa lived in a time where they used adobe's to build their homes. Also people referred to as snowbirds, you probably hear it more often in Arizona and Utah.
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".
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".
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.
Snowbirds moved from the cold weather to the warm weather usually people that are older during the winter months better for their health easier on the bones in arthritis and etc.
Nobody thinks you're making snacks up. To me the implication is usually either that it's not a common snack OR that it's specific to a smaller region than they're complaining they haven't seen it in (for example, being from New Orleans, but not the entire South).
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.
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.
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.
Some pretty good guesses ya'll made for brand new (to y'all) words. Emberessed to say I did not get all of these; my Texas card is in even greater jeopardy of being revoked. This was a fun little shindig!
We usually get 1 or 2 Haboobs a year here in Mesa, AZ (yes Mesa is also the name of the city I live in). I knew most of these, but some were just off the wall.
🤔 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. 🙂
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
I spent most of my growing years in the desert SW. While I'd head Haboob before, I always associated it with the Middle East. When I lived in AZ we called the dust storms Coriolis Storms (which is technically incorrect) or just sand or dust storms. Snowbird is more specifically migratory people who live in the north, but travel to the south for the winter.
You're guesses for snowbird are particularly hilarious. I feel like you would do better if you 1)stopped being so literal 🤣 and 2)kept in mind the geography/climate of the region.
I honestly think you two do good at these as does Lost in the Pond. There are probably a lot of things in Jersey that I would have no idea what they mean. I only realized in the last 2 years that a garden meant a yard and that floor meant the ground outside. Love you two, keep it up please.
My beach town in Texas doubles in the winter when all the northern retired people come here for the winter then go back in the spring. they drive big trucks and they bring an camper with them or keep one here full time.
Menudo is sold mostly on Sunday Mornings to help those had too much partying the night before...Hoodo's can be found in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, USA... :)
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.
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 ....
Pozole is basically menudo without the tripas, (tripe) and it's really good. It contains hominy, which is kernels if corn that have been treated with lye, to remove the outer skin, leaving only the soft white inside. Grits are also made from hominy.
Funny coincidence-El Arroyo is a Texan "pub" or cantina that has a sign out front of it where the owners post humorous sayings and comments. I visit it for laughs online.
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.
Among Anglo Americans who were teenagers in the '80s, many of us know "Menudo" as the long-lasting Puerto Rican boy band with ever-changing members. Ricky Martin might be the most famous former member, again among Anglos.
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)!
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.
A snow bird are people who move to Florida or Texas or Arizona in the winter to escape the cold but return up north for the summer! Much like birds do in the wild!
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
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🤷♀️🤣🤣
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.
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.🤦🏾
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.
@@KarenCatMom2 I've always known retirees that relocate as "blue hairs" lol
@@KarenCatMom2 people who endure the summer heat are not Snowbirds.
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"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.
"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
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
Millie is on her game and not putting up with James. 😄 She has her teacher hat on!!
Lol right
Birds fly south during the winter months, Snowbirds are people live in area that get snow in the winter that fly to Warmer parts for the winter months.
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."
OK I so enjoyed watching James is amazement when he found out how paella is actually supposed to be pronounced 😆
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.
"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
Snow birds are retired people who move with the birds like the birds that go south for the winter and north for spring or summer.
He gave the worst possible definition for snowbird! They're northerners(mostly retired) who come down from colder states during the winter months to states like Florida or Arizona. There's usually a lot of them and clog up our roads and cause most of the states(Florida) accidents.
Outside of the US South West there is a slang word that is "beaut". To call something "a beaut" is to call it beautiful. In usage: "That car is a beaut." or "Isn't that car a beaut?"
Haboobs happen in the Middle East, in Southwest U. S. We call them a Giant dust storm.
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.
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
Snowbirds are not just retired people, most are but people with the option of remote work also snowbird.
Btw hatch Chile on eggs is AMAZING! It’s actually amazing on everything
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
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.
We use the term Snowbirds in the South as well
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.
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.
A person who leaves their snowy home to "winter" in the SW.
I live on the other side of snowbird migration. They spend 6 months and a day in a warm climate to avoid the snow of winter and avoid the takes of the cooler places. Then they spend the hot time of the year somewhere cool. Still that doesn’t always work out for them since we often get several days of 32C or hotter despite getting a meter or two of snow in winter. A few years back we had a summer with a 41C day and over 3 meters of snow at once.
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.
An arroyo is a water drainage system in New Mexico where I live
They are made of cement.
I'm in CA and every year people from Canada or cold climates come to Palm Springs to enjoy nice weather, then return to Canada or any other cold climate when spring or summer comes back around. Cheers
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.
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
Hatch chiles are fire-roasted, mixed in guacamole, omelets, scrambled eggs and are D E L I S H ! !
"Snowbirds" is a nickname for people who split their time between a southern state and somewhere north - so that they don't have to be in the cold weather. This is not a word that is localized in the southwest. It is used all over the country
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.
Here in Southern Texas we get a lot of snowbirds. Here in America migratory birds fly south for winter for the warmer weather. So seniors who live in Northern states drive south for warmer weather
mesa means table also depending on the dialect
"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😋
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'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!
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.
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
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. 😆
I lived in Arizona for 20 years so I've heard of adobe but my grandpa and great grandpa lived in a time where they used adobe's to build their homes. Also people referred to as snowbirds, you probably hear it more often in Arizona and Utah.
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".
I got most of them, and I live in Texas.
You got a new sub. Snowbird killed me. It’s old folks that spend their winter’s in warm regions. 🤣😝
I'm useless also for guessing what these words mean and ironically I'm an American born and raised lol 😆 I swear we have so much slang here in America
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".
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.
Imagine being a teacher grading papers on a curve as big as the point system you two have going on lol
Posole with roasted Hatch green chilis is the absolute best!
Snowbirds moved from the cold weather to the warm weather usually people that are older during the winter months better for their health easier on the bones in arthritis and etc.
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.
Nobody thinks you're making snacks up. To me the implication is usually either that it's not a common snack OR that it's specific to a smaller region than they're complaining they haven't seen it in (for example, being from New Orleans, but not the entire South).
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.
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.
The American Southwest was all part of Mexico at one time and that’s why it’s so heavily influenced by Spanish words and names!
James, I feel like as long as you name a noun, you feel like you got it right.
Btw my grandmother was born in Butte Montana!
As an Architect, I figure that everyone learns about adobe or stucco and other types of mud exteriors
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.
Snowbirds are people who leave snowy places for warmer climates. Typically it is people who move south for the winter, like birds.
Some pretty good guesses ya'll made for brand new (to y'all) words. Emberessed to say I did not get all of these; my Texas card is in even greater jeopardy of being revoked. This was a fun little shindig!
Well I mean not all parts of Texas belong to the Southwest, just like California...
Mesa is like a butte, but wider. Tabletop hill.
From the Spanish word Mesa = table.
We usually get 1 or 2 Haboobs a year here in Mesa, AZ (yes Mesa is also the name of the city I live in). I knew most of these, but some were just off the wall.
🤔 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. 🙂
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.
A snowbird is a person who goes to the south for the winter. We have a lot of them here in Arizona.
I've lived in New Mexico most of my life and these are common words and foods here. I had to chuckle at your guesses. Love your videos.
I spent most of my growing years in the desert SW. While I'd head Haboob before, I always associated it with the Middle East. When I lived in AZ we called the dust storms Coriolis Storms (which is technically incorrect) or just sand or dust storms.
Snowbird is more specifically migratory people who live in the north, but travel to the south for the winter.
Having grown up in Arizona, I'm quite excited to watch this.
Haboob is a relatively recent import. 40 yrs ago, NO ONE said it in Arizona - where our dust storms are fierce & famous.
Yep. Arroyo is legit.
Ancient native American adobe dwellings made for great school field trips.
You're guesses for snowbird are particularly hilarious.
I feel like you would do better if you 1)stopped being so literal 🤣 and 2)kept in mind the geography/climate of the region.
Corrido guesses = 😆😆😆😆
You know Spanish is like saying you know English. I have Scottish friends and sometimes I don't have a clue what the heck they are saying.
You got the "Snowbird" definition reversed. It's a person who moves from a colder climate to a warmer climate during the winter.
Hatch chile is Chile, both red & green, grown in Hatch, New Mexico
I honestly think you two do good at these as does Lost in the Pond. There are probably a lot of things in Jersey that I would have no idea what they mean. I only realized in the last 2 years that a garden meant a yard and that floor meant the ground outside. Love you two, keep it up please.
My beach town in Texas doubles in the winter when all the northern retired people come here for the winter then go back in the spring. they drive big trucks and they bring an camper with them or keep one here full time.
Chile is a pepper. Chili is a meal made with meat. Two different things.
Menudo is sold mostly on Sunday Mornings to help those had too much partying the night before...Hoodo's can be found in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, USA... :)
If she knows Spanish, a mesa means table, mesas often nicknamed tabletop mountains
In the Spongebob Movie Video Game (2004), one line Spongebob says is "Talk about pretty rocks, Patrick - This one's a BUTTE! Dahahahahahah".
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.
Now I'm craving a hatch chili burger...omg, so good.
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 ....
The picture of the Hoodoo's was taken in Bryce Canyon National Park, located in the southwestern part of my home state, Utah.
This is yet another example of 'same language; yet not.' Love the videos guys.
Pozole is basically menudo without the tripas, (tripe) and it's really good. It contains hominy, which is kernels if corn that have been treated with lye, to remove the outer skin, leaving only the soft white inside. Grits are also made from hominy.
Hoodoos were mentioned several times in the videos about national parks and picturesque/beautiful places.
Funny coincidence-El Arroyo is a Texan "pub" or cantina that has a sign out front of it where the owners post humorous sayings and comments. I visit it for laughs online.
Tisk, tisk James...as an architect, you should have been familiar with the classic building material Adobe!! 🤣
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
Mesa is also the Spanish word for table.
Among Anglo Americans who were teenagers in the '80s, many of us know "Menudo" as the long-lasting Puerto Rican boy band with ever-changing members. Ricky Martin might be the most famous former member, again among Anglos.
And that it literally means “small change”, I think.
I was thinking the same thing. I was like “isn’t Menudo that boy band from back in the day?” Lol
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)!
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.
A snow bird are people who move to Florida or Texas or Arizona in the winter to escape the cold but return up north for the summer! Much like birds do in the wild!