Questions for Delfos

[Letonna]

Does Portugal have memes?
Do Portuguese go to Spain a lot?
and finally, is American food popular there?

[St Oz]

I can answer a few of those...

1) I date a Brazilian woman, she says yes there is portuguese memes
2) She said 'duh'
3) She said Mcdonalds and Subway are there so 'I guess so.'

[McMasterdonia]

lol

[Delfos]

I'll try to go around smart ass questions and answers and try to give useful information, just to piss you off.

1
Yes there are portuguese memes, there's even a portuguese group in the US that makes fun of the portuguese immigrants in the US.
Portuguese meme using Cristiano Ronaldo's face with mustache and folklore background:

reads: Has great grade in English, has negative grade in Portuguese.
Watch the "I'm portuguese and I know it" version of LMFAO's hit - Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoWPvv87pGA
mind they're from the islands of Azores, they have a different accent comparing to the mainland, also they use a lot of portuguese words into the song so you might be like "wtf are they saying" sometimes.

2
Portuguese go everywhere dude, but the answer that Oz's gurl gave is pretty accurate. Just as reference, because of the crisis 5 of my best friends moved to the UK to work. UK is pretty "close", round-trip 2 months from now costs around 180 EUR = 240 USD. 2 months ago I went to Brussels (Belgium) and I'm not a guy with money, I did spend a ton of money in March on a trip to Florence (Italy) with my wife. Supposedly I crossed the border to Spain sometime when I was very young but I've got no recollection, it's not that I don't want to go there, I'd like to go to Barcelona, but there's better things to do and see. So yeah, portuguese go to spain a lot, specially to put gas in the car if they live close to the border, gas prices are lower there.
Also for your information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

3
We do have access to "American" food. Most popular fast food is probably McDonalds and Coke has a heavy presence, yet portuguese wine is the most popular drink (maybe more than water haha). Some cities have Subway, BurgerKing is rare, there's probably more PizzaHutts than Subways just for reference. There are a lot of other fast food chains, even Portuguese fast food, Mediterranean, Middle-eastern, Brazilian fast food, etc. Again, they are popular fast food, not food. We have a lot of restaurants here (a lot, like one in each neighborhood) and it's still very popular that when you go out to eat you go to a restaurant, not fast-food place, thus there's a lot of traditional portuguese food restaurants, italian restaurants (tons of things better than olivegarden which is fake italian), traditional portuguese foods from:
- Minho (northwest part, goat/lamb slow cook in stone oven is very traditional);
- Trás-os-Montes (northeast, they have a specialty with "old goat" cooked in wine slowly taking a lot of time, among with other recipies with sausages cabbages chourizos etc);
- Porto (northern "capital", lots of sausages and guts traditional dishes);
- Serra da Estrela (center mountain-range has very good sausages and cheeses which originate good recipes);
- Western region has a lot of traditional seafood dishes; here's a curiosity, we eat this: Perceves, they stick to rocks on the coast, they have a soft inside that tastes pretty much like fresh mussels.
- Lisboa e vale do tejo (Lisbon and Tagus valley, most variety of traditional food, from seafood to pork);
- Ribatejo (center part near tagus river, very good pork traditional dishes);
- Alentejo (region mid-south has a lot of heavy flavored traditional food, pork, cornbread, sausages, cabbage and whatnot);
- Sudoeste (southwest has very good fish, my favorite is Sargo);
- Algarve is the southern part bathed by the Mediterranean and most touristic part, as you can imagine the food variety spreads from north-african influence dishes to middle-eastern and traditional portuguese fish recipes.

[Letonna]

Are you still planning on moving to America? Didn't you say Milwaukee?

I hear there's a lot of crime there.

[St Oz]

I hear they also hate portuguese people

like a lot.

[Ekord]

Hey, I went to school in Milwaukee. All I remember is fat people and beer.

[Delfos]

Minnesota, next state to my wife's family, yeah I watched enough Everybody Loves Raymond to know not to live close by

I kind of like the innocence of US inner north country, people are nice, you see real life cowboys (as I explained b4, here cowboys are fictional characters, people don't think there's still people that dress like that), huge pickups, everybody drives a mustang or corvette on sundays, yeah seems ok.

I was going to move to the US in April but my wife wanted to stay some more in Portugal. Well it's a lovely country but employment is crap atm, but there's a chance for new projects, I might start a business here, that'll put moving to the US further away.

[Letonna]

Is euro pop popular there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdcWYhcDy40

[Delfos]

If you call it euro pop is because they're popular enough to cross from europe to the US. They are not that popular here in Portugal.

Most americans stereotype euro pop with what we call "techno-pop" or "dance", when you say euro pop I think of old scandinavian pop (1 hit wonders).


There's a prejudice that people that listen to techno, specially loud in their cars, are yokels that boost their sound and tune their cars, and you know what, most people that I know that listen to that crap are "tuning" (modified cars) people, which most people make fun of. It's generalized, I'm aware the same prejudice applies in the US. But there's hope in humanity, most of them grow up and start listening to pop/rock Artic Monkeys and whatnot.

When I was a kid I listened to a lot of Scooter.

Yet techno is a very wide category. Curiosity: Here's one of our best DJs who I know, he's from the town I live in

You probably get a lot of "euro pop" crap that comes on EuroVision contest.

"Drum and Bass" is very popular with teens in university, a lot of my colleagues were into it, while I listened to Acid Jazz like Saint Germain.

[Letonna]

What are your hobbies Delfos?

Do you play any video games?



do you put together miniature models?



do you murder women of the night?

[Delfos]

hobbies are what makes you spent a lot of time and effort of your dear life without making any money? I guess politics then.

Yes I play video games, PC games of any kind. I've been a faithful follower of the Battlefield series. I don't have much time to play them tho.

No, I did put together some figther jets when I was a kid but no I don't put together models, I put together industrial projects - I guess I've ten upped that.

Yes, they are very tasty.

[McMasterdonia]

omfg Letonna xD

[Letonna]

What's your favorite holiday Delfos? Is it Christmas?



what's your favorite fruit?


and finally, do you like tea?

[Delfos]

I don't know. What I like about xmas is the presents, right next to my birthday, but I think I like New Year more than xmas. I tried to have a bbq at 4th of july a year ago but the fires made the bugs go crazy, was way too hot in South Dakota.

workers night


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Maybe Apples. I like watermelon a lot.


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I don't usually like tea, but it's nice to have some sometimes.

this one is pretty good, I normally like minty tea.

Green tea or blueberry are also pretty good.