2 Ergebnisse.

When my father passed away, he left behind some old newspaper clippings. One was a poem that was printed in 1948 in the Brownsville Herald. It was a version of "T'was The Night Before Christmas" in Tex-Mex lingo. In South Texas, a great majority of Texans are of Mexican descent and most are also bilingual. Mixing both English and Spanish words in their conversations is very common. We call it Tex-Mex. When I saw the poem in the clipping 74 ye...

Jett, a recently transferredBorder Patrol Agent to the Texas Rio Grande Valley, isscheduled to go on a quail hunting trip with Jimmy and Italo.   While Jett and Leo, his rotundedlyobese friend, are enjoying a Mexican barbecue breakfast taco at Conchita's Cafe, Leo paints a very unfavorable picture of Italo, whom he depicts as a 'weird snake lover', 'unpredictable', and to Jett's startling surprise, a 'hater ofBorder Patrolmen.'Even though Jimm...