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Anyone buy chipotle tobasco?

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I remember getting some a year ago and it had the little box insert for "gringo" burgers. Now they are called "borderline" burgers. Do you think the name change was due to being politically correct or because they realized it was a stupid name? After all doesn't the term gringo simply mean a white person?

Plus I love the stuff, such great flavor.
 

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I'm a Louisiana Hot Sauce man myself. Never been a big chipotle flavor fan.

And now that i think about it, i'm not quite sure why i'm even posting under this thread.
 

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yeah Gringo is not a derogatory term, to Mexicans. It just means white dude. I'll bet the demographic that Tobasco was going for was primarily white, and personaly I don't like being called anything but Dave. I'll bet they cahnged thier minds after a couple of focus groups.
 

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I kinda take offense to borderline burger. It makes me think of tiny little mexicans running through the desert trying to get into our country so they can mow our grass, install our landscaping and lay our brick. Then they buy our hamburger and put their chipotle sauce on it and call it their own. As opposed to borderline burger, i think they should call it a Mexican with Spanish descent-Amercian burger.

Or even better, "Hamburger with Chiptole Tobasco Sauce"

And in the spirit of politically correctness, shouldn't Mexican be considered unpolitically correct?! I mean it is derogitory in a sense. Whether right or wrong, when i hear the term Mexican, a certain mental image appears of a certain kind of person, and im' sure i'm not alone in that. We got a guy hear at work who we call Paco because he kind of short and lkinda looks "mexican" and he gets real mad about it. And if you call someone mexican, it implies that they are purely and simply mexican. I think they should be called "persons". in fact, we should all be called persons so as not to stereotype based on nationality. No more greasy italians, just persons. no more stupid canadiens, just persons. Fat lazy Americans? No. Persons. Men? Women? Nope. Persons. We're all just persons.

I think some "person" musta slipped something in my coffee.
 
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By "person" do you mean slight dose of crazy accompanied with irish whiskey?

For the most part I'm a greasy italian, not hairy though, and I definitely got the nose. While in Rome people where asking me for directions (other Italians) unfortunately I only knew like 10 words in Italian so they were screwed.

Also btw I'm down with "Hamburger with Chiptole Tobasco Sauce". I haven't made them yet but I plan on it. Sounds good, "Hamburger with Chiptole Tobasco Sauce and spicy onions"(that's the full name on the box insert).
 

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It's a deal then adam, when you get back to PA, we persons can get together for some Gringo Burgers. or in your case, some Goombah burgers. I'm pretty sure Goombah was a 1950s slang term for italian-american "person".
 
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