My family’s favorite brand of freedom
I love refried beans. They’re part of my heritage, my family’s culinary history, and an essential ingredients in the world’s greatest cuisine – Mexican. So you can imagine I’m picky about refried beans. They should not include jalapeno peppers. Nothing wrong about jalapenos, but are we such savages, that we cannot add our own fresh jalapenos to the beans? Are we to be denied the freedom to decide the exact, proper amount, perhaps none that day, to our refried beans?
GIVE ME LIBERTY TO ADD MY OWN JAPENOS OR GIVE ME DEATH.
(Not as exhilirating as John Patrick Henry’s famous slogan, but you get the idea.)
So, you can imagine my horror and outrage when the two major supermarkets only had refried beans with jalapenos. I had to order plain refried beans from Amazon. Yes, Amazon was freedom’s last line of defense.
Write your senator, gather your arms, and take to the streets. The apocalypse is at hand.
– Paul De Lancey, Ph.D.
My cookbook, Following Good Food Around the World, with its 180 wonderful recipes, my newest novel, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms, a hilarious apocalyptic thriller, and all my other books, are available on amazon.com.
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