March 28, 2006
Ya gotta love Cuban women
So I'm standing at the Badia spice rack at my local supermarket yesterday (incidentally, the Badia spice rack is a thing of beauty) looking for the Sazon Completa and this Cuban woman, about 70 years old and dressed to the nines with husband in tow like ten feet behind her comes up to me and parks her cart right next to mine.
I look over at her and nod. She smiles coquetishly, bats her eyes and says "Y cocinas bien?" (And do you cook well?)
I nearly lost it. This seventy something year old lady was flirting with me right there in the spices aisle and in front of her husband.
"De vez en cuando," I respond. Sometimes. "Pero yo prefiero comer." But I prefer to eat.
She lets out this slight chuckle and as she's pushing her cart away gives me the sideways coquetona glance. The woman was checking me out!
I must have looked completely nutso standing there in the spice aisle laughing out loud.
And we kept running into each other in the next aisles. It was like this Cuban woman -who, Ill venture to say, must have been a knock out in her youth - with her little grocery cart and husband in tow and I had this little secret thing going on, right there in the middle of a supermarket. The Publix Affair. Rendevous in the Spice Aisle. A Supermarket Triste.
Y cocinas bien? I dont think Ill ever forget that line.
Posted by Val Prieto at March 28, 2006 07:50 AM
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I hope you weren't talking about "Cocina al minuto".....:)
JulioZ
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at March 28, 2006 09:49 AM
Badia spice racks are indeed a thing of beauty and nicely designed too! And not like the million dollar prices one pays for the Anglo spices - Badia is pretty easy on the pocket and they have high quality herbs.
Posted by: mandingo at March 28, 2006 10:24 AM
Women can't resist the physique of a world-class athlete.
Posted by: Steve H. at March 28, 2006 11:22 AM
Vieja sata. Mandingo it sounds like you are rep. for Badia...we need them here in California.
Posted by: Orlando at March 28, 2006 12:02 PM
and you were complaining about the whole having to go to Publix!
Posted by: La Ventanita at March 28, 2006 12:16 PM
Cuban women love to flirt, age does not go into the equation. Your story reminds me of when my own grandmother (then about 70+) met my then boyfriend - now husband of 24-years... she actually checked out his equipment; if you know what I mean!
Posted by: bianca at March 28, 2006 12:42 PM
Complaining????
Posted by: The Mrs. at March 28, 2006 01:27 PM
You reminded me of a "piropo" from my childhood:
"Si cocinas como caminas, me como hasta la raspita!"
So sorry, Americano brothers and sister of the Anglo and other ethnic persuasions, but don't even know how to translate it well enough to carry through the full meaning into English...something like "If you cook as well as you walk, I'll even eat the pot-scrapings!" Or something like it.
Buen apetito!
Posted by: Alberto-Q at March 28, 2006 02:15 PM
Cuando yo tenía 32 años, una "veterana" de 75, dueña de una "casa de citas" en La Habana, me dijo: "Si yo tuviera 20 años menos y tu 20 años más, como ibamos a gozar."
Posted by: delacova at March 29, 2006 01:00 AM
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