There was an interesting juxtaposition at Tuesday's City of Brownsville Commission meeting.
On the one hand, commissioner Rose Gowen announced the beginning of The Challenge 2018 and encouraged each and all to register for prizes as an incentive to live well, fight obesity and develop good eating habits. There will be prizes by age group for those who lose the most weight, she said.
Registration starts Friday at the Main and Southmost libraries Friday and in the Linear Park Saturday.
Then, commissioner Cesar De Leon read a proclamation in recognition of Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que which specializes in "delicious barbacoa de res cooked en pozo, brisket, and chicken tacos with hot corn tortillas & homemade salsa."
Gowen thinks that as medical doctor she should oversee not only municipal matters in her role as an elected official, but also in her professional capacity as weight watcher and anti-obesity crusader of the Lower Rio Grande. As such, she feels she has the mandate of the city to spend millions on hike and bike trails, a Valleywide "active" plan and now, to make these lard-lovers lose weight.
This is nanny government at its best. Of course, it's the public's money and not her own, so she feels no pain in performing her altruistic acts.
De Leon, on the other hand, said he got the idea of issuing the proclamation when he visited Vera's for some chow and noticed that state and nationwide publications such as Texas Monthly had recognized Vera's unique (and traditional) method of cooking a beef head.
"Barbacoa aficionados know that Vera’s is the only restaurant in the state, maybe the country, that still does real “barbacoa de cabeza en pozo con mesquite,” or cow’s head barbecue smoked in an earthen pit over mesquite coals. While the health codes do not allow new restaurants to cook in holes in the ground, sixty-year-old Vera’s has been grandfathered in for decades. (Don’t worry, the heads are wrapped in heavy-duty aluminum foil before being smoked.) Their menu is hand-written on a piece of poster board and also offers lengua (tongue), but we kept it basic with cachete (cheek), and an order of fresh corn tortillas. "
So if all these people from Austin and beyond the state line recognized this Southmost purveyor of this delicious grease-tinged delicacy, why not the city where Vera's is located, De Leon wondered.
And so on Tuesday the commission went on cross aims: one to urge people to stop eating greasy food, exercise and lose weight, and the other to celebrate the culinary marvels of the naturally greasy South Texas culinary delight called barbacoa de res.
Hey, maybe they could team up and recruit Challenge 2018 contestants from Vera's Friday to Sunday while they're open for business. On the other hand, once you latch on to a half-dozen taquitos of barbacoa it'll be hard to stimulate anyone to move, exercise and think about losing weight.
It will be, well, a challenge.
25 comments:
The picture of Rose Gowen seems to indicate that someone should give her a bicycle to ride....with a tractor seat for that big ass. While I support good health, exercise and getting regular medical check-ups, it seems that all the talk and giving away bicycles has done little. Does BISD have a physical/health period like we did in the old days?? And, like this commission meeting, Gowen recommends exercise and turn around and then our resident racist and bigot, Cesar de Leon, encourages people to eat some greasy food, Hispanic cultural food; because the white and black man seek to destroy the Hispanic world/culture that de Leon seeks to protect. Cesar de Leon should resign...he's a racist. And Tony Martinez lacks to "huevos" to take action against him.
Cesar de Leon is a racist and a bigot. He should resign. Tony Martinez should have public meetings just as he did dealing with the Jefferson Davis rock. An inanimate object and Tony Martinez can't make a decision. But with a real live racist like de Leon, Tony takes no action, and reinforces his lack of leadership. We should not have a racist making decisions for this city. Cesar de Leon is a "DICK", a racist "DICK".
OOOiiinnnkkkkkk whe'su! When was the last time she rode a bike? Wasn't it her idea in the first place? Para fea no se estudia!
She needs a bigger taco.
Chingado Juan! Never happy, bro.
By the way, who owns the cow in the picture?
Body shaming is mean and ignorant. This hate filled city with comments like that is why we are in the predicament we are in. No one should feel they have a right to criticize a person's appearance. Just because a person may look bigger than these photos shopped women, or women who have nothing else better to do than waste there money on tummy tucks, liposuction, and numerous other procedures doesn't mean they are unhealthy.
I heard the rock apologized and thats why they haven't removed it.
I LOVE CESAR....I must love dick ?!?!
You are so hateful! May the fleas of a thousand camels invade your crotch and may your arms be too short to scratch!
Good day!
Oooink ta'vas? Oooink te fuiste?
Why wish ill Will towards a poor bike? If I were a bike, I wouldn't want Petunia sitting on me!
I would like to slap that big aaasss!
You must st love ass smelling dick because he’s gay...that’s the truth...he can’t deny it.
Vera's barbacoa is not smoked, it is roasted. Think about any Texas style smoked brisket you may have had, Rudy's for instance. They taste nothing alike though both are cooked over wood. A smoked brisket is exposed to the smoke at low temperatures for many hours, usually in an above ground pit with an off-set fire box. Depending on the cook, it may then be wrapped in foil (to help keep it from drying out) and cooked a few more hours. Mr. Vera's wonderful barbacoa is wrapped and roasted over the coals, also at a low heat for many hours but it's exposure to smoke is very limited if there is any at all because it is tightly wrapped throughout the cooking process. When I have made barbacoa we dug a pit and burned wood until we had a thick bed of coals. The wrapped head was then placed on the coals and the pit was covered with a piece of tin which was covered in dirt until no smoke escaped. Ten or twelve hours later we had barbacoa. Since the coals are in an oxygen deprived environment I wonder if there is even any smoke being generated at all but it is this low oxygen environment that causes the coals to burn slowly and at a lower heat then they would if exposed to the air.
When an elected city official fights against everybody's obesity and has a butt like that, she has opened herself up to criticism. She is a Zavaleta and we can expect her to want to "do as she says, not do what she does". She can't change the local culture by giving out bicycles....
So What's wrong with being gay? It's his ass, not yours!
Za Le va Y leta barbacoa slither down her deep-throat
Where can I get a free bike? Does it come with a clown suit?
Lol.... may your ass get bigger and ur sniffing dog vomits you sad sack of fat! Cesar is an asshole racist son of his and you are an idiot for loving him, he will not love you back! Your just not lovable . Go see your pastor you idiot
I'm excited.
I joined the challenge.
Thanks to all including City Commissioner Greens for proactively getting involved.
Most of us need a little push to get on the healthy side of life.
Thanks again.
Now that is a hell of a RUMBLE SEAT.
Envy is the root of all bullshit in this town, I don't believe she is fat, she seems healthy and weight is about correct for the age group. Now, if you get insulted because you are bigger, It would be wise of you to start choosing a diet plan that suits you up, stop eating when you are not hungry and quit slandering people for your own demons. Having said that, Have a good Sunday my loves. Enjoy and have an apple!
Life is a wonderful gift that will not last forever; stop the hate and start loving, Love starts with you then all else falls into place.
Gowen must love food cause it's fallen in all the right places.
If you advocate for a healthy life style why don't you ban greasy food in Brownsville. How did you vote on the proclamation yea or nay? You are correct about envy (hypocrisy)if you voted yes!
Bullshit is not a crime, like being fat is not a crime. Eating greasy food is not a crime. By bigger you mean FAT? I know skinny people that eat more then fat people so a diet may not be the answer to your stupid advice, mijita. Face it we all know(the whole town) that your interest is with the elite. Why don't you propose projects to benefit the whole city not just a few? Mijita cook this in your pea brain and you too have a nice Sunday afternoon. PENDEJA
Is she going to use this picture when she runs for re-election?
Cities are not required to separate bike lanes and streets with barricades.
By law Cities are not required to make streets in certain ways.
So her only argument is that the citizens are "FAT".
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