Val, send me on copy of the Babalù magazine ! :)

Val - is that a profile of you in a Spanish magazine????

Val.
Is that a Babalu newsletter?? what is that???

I believe thats just a printout of the Babalu header he's holding.

from the "you cant take the cuba out of the cuban" file
in brasil, pinga is a liquor, kinda like aguardiente.. if the faucet is leaking, its "pingando".. its a common word, means nothing vulgur.. in rio, on copacabana, just off avenida nossa senhora da aparecida there is a cuban guy who opened a bar and called it: "el pingon", right by the "cubacabana" cigar shop.. whenever you see people taking sinickering and taking pictures of it, you have a pretty good idea where they are from..

And I suppose that the favorite drink at "El Pingon" is a "Pingazo"??? ...probably with rum...
Make mine a double... not that there's anything wrong with that...?
I became aware of this Brazilian... aberraci'on, shall we say... a few years ago, when I worked with a colleague born and raised in Rio at a Florida university and one day she invited me to her house to have some "real" pinga with her husband.
Believe me, it took *a lot of talking* to set me straight...
I still laugh heartily when I'm reminded of the situation.
As'i es la vida... larga y peluda... as a friend of mine at The Miami Herald used to say...
Julio

Did I miss something here??? What do Pingas have to do with Babalu??
Are there pingas attached to Babalu??? and do they "come" in a form of a cocktail??
Example:
Margaritas pingonas?
Pina colada con pinga??
Cuba Libres en pinga?
Pinga Martini with two olives?

Do I need to travel to Brazil to find some real pingones???
Just checking......

LMAO, too funny!

That photo is an instant classic! Awesome.