Tropicalgrower89 more Laras videos

[JF]

Pablo and Julian educating the public.
non spanish speaking folks just turn the volume down.

Lara's Farm con Julian y Pablo Lara
FARMS and FARMERS
Jackfruit de Lara's Farm
El Sabor de las frutas del Sur de la FLorida - Lara's Farm & Don King

[fruitlovers]

Tell Julian that Rapoza mango is a cultivar from Hawaii, not Brazil, as he says in first video. I was lucky and got to meet Julian at his nursery a few years ago. Very nice guy. Speaking of nice!!--where do they get those bikini clad assistants? Is that so they don't have to worry about mango juice ruining their clothes?
Oscar

[JF]

I thought they were from Hawaii....he got nervous from the thongs show

JF

[fruitlovers]

I thought they were from Hawaii....he got nervous from the thongs show

JF

Is that a Miami TV show? How come we never have anyone clad like that at our fruit tasting tables? 
Rapoza is one of the best tasting and productive mangos in Hawaii!
Oscar

[Tropicalgrower89]

I was looking at the girls more than the fruits... 


Thanks for the videos JF! 

[fruitlovers]

What is the yagruma that Julian mentions in last video, and says it tastes similar to cinnamon?
Oscar

[Patrick]

Those are great!

[murahilin]

What is the yagruma that Julian mentions in last video, and says it tastes similar to cinnamon?
Oscar

The yagruma is a cecropia fruit. It looks like a chicken foot. I can't remember it tasting like cinnamon though.

[HMHausman]

Seems all the Latin TV variety shows (or at least many of them) that are aired here in South Florida have scantily clad girls as aisstants, co-hosts, etc.  Not sure why that is.....but it makes the shows much more watchable.....which I guess is why that is.  On the Rapoza mango....I had been on the hunt for this for quite a while after  hearing some very good things about it.  I think we (Murahilin and I) ordered some buwood from Hawaii to try to graft some up here.  Budwood came in good shape, but the grafts were failures.  Jeff Hagen finally grafted one up for me.  I planted it out and its pushing bloom now.

Harry

[Ethan]

What, there were fruits in those videos?  I need to change the varieties I am growing or maybe just the people I eat fruit with.  There is nothing like random scantily clad women eating tropical fruits. Was that a Sarteneja custard apple they ate?  That Lancetilla could feed a family of 4 for a week.

-Ethan

[JF]

For some reason, I get the feeling that none of the dudes really didn't cared about Lara's presentation , Harry  most Hispanic ( I don't like the word Latin we are not from Latium) variety shows or soaps are cheap imitation of American shows so they have to get their audience to focus on something else

JF

[HMHausman]

JF:

Having grown up in S. Florida, I have had much exposure to Hispanic culture.  I have taken more years of school Spanish than I care to mention.  I can even converse fairly easily and effectively in my areas of business where I have a fairly extensive vocabulary.  Those skills erode somewhat when I am dealing with other areas of vocabulary or with the Spanish spoken by some people....especially as folks are given to speak extremely fast or by cutting off their words without full pronounciation.  Anyway, in my experience with Spanish I most often hear Spanish speakers refer to themselves as Latino or Latinos rather than Hispano or Hispanos.....so I usually use Latin as the English equivalent of that rather than Hispanic. Am I right about this?  I am very much interested in words and how people perceive them.....so I am glad you made the point. I appreciate your thoughts on this.  Thanks!

[fruitlovers]

JF:

Having grown up in S. Florida, I have had much exposure to Hispanic culture.  I have taken more years of school Spanish than I care to mention.  I can even converse fairly easily and effectively in my areas of business where I have a fairly extensive vocabulary.  Those skills erode somewhat when I am dealing with other areas of vocabulary or with the Spanish spoken by some people....especially as folks are given to speak extremely fast or by cutting off their words without full pronounciation.  Anyway, in my experience with Spanish I most often hear Spanish speakers refer to themselves as Latino or Latinos rather than Hispano or Hispanos.....so I usually use Latin as the English equivalent of that rather than Hispanic. Am I right about this?  I am very much interested in words and how people perceive them.....so I am glad you made the point. I appreciate your thoughts on this.  Thanks!

Latino i think usually refers to people from Latin America. Whereas hispanic means anyone speaking spanish, including people from Spain.
Oscar

[MangoFang]

Yes, Harry, I think Oscar has pinned it down.  In fact, the first time I met JF I mentioned something about Latinos in California, and he corrected me with the Hispanic word.....so......that's my dos centavos.....for what they're worth....



Me llamo Fang

[MangoFang]

oh,,, and what I meant to say to you JF - Don King?

Boy that guy gets his strange mug in the weirdest places!



MF

[JF]

Hi Harry

The word Latino is widely misused by some folks in this country as well as the Spanish speaking media. Although it's true that Spanish is a Latin based language, English shares many Latin roots words with Spanish.English and other European language use the Latin alphabet, does that make them Latinos? Another poster implied that we are Latinos because of the term Latin America. Do the English,French and Portuguese speaking coutries in Latin America consider themselves Latinos? Ok that's enough, now it's time to talk about tropical fruit growing

JF

MangoDog

Anywhere where there is a buck to be may you will see Don King's mug and Fro

[fruitlovers]

Hi Harry

The word Latino is widely misused by some folks in this country as well as the Spanish speaking media. Although it's true that Spanish is a Latin based language, English shares many Latin roots words with Spanish.English and other European language use the Latin alphabet, does that make them Latinos? Another poster implied that we are Latinos because of the term Latin America. Do the English,French and Portuguese speaking coutries in Latin America consider themselves Latinos? Ok that's enough, now it's time to talk about tropical fruit growing

JF

MangoDog

Anywhere where there is a buck to be may you will see Don King's mug and Fro

English has Dutch-Flemish roots, and very few of the words in english have latin roots. Latin is much easier to learn for a Spanish speaking person because so very many of the words are similar. Had latin in school, so i remember that. BTW, most of latin america is spanish speaking. The biggest exception is Brazil, speaking Portuguese, a language that is incredibly similar to spanish.  I can understand 85% of written portuguese, just because i know spanish.The only other countries not speaking spanish in latin america are very small countries in northenmost S. America: the Guyanas, only one of which has english as official language.
Oscar

[siafu]

Oscar, I disagree.
English has a significant number of words derived from Latin/Romance languages (and Greek).

Check the reference below.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_influence_in_English>