"You have declared war on Texas"

The inadmissibility of peas in Guacamol united America

On the first day of July, The New York Times published a recipe for guacamole with peas. “Add peas to Guacamol. Believe us, ”the publication wrote on his twitter and actually declared war on all the admirers of the Mexican dishes from the avocado. Countless speakers in leading publications, loud statements of politicians, including the President of the United States - literally everything wrote about a scandalous recipe. "Medusa" tells how one recipe has become the number one theme in North America.

Guacamole is a tanned avocado pulp with salt, lime juice and various additives, depending on the recipe. Cooked triangular chips of the Nachos is accepted into it. Guacamole is considered a Latin American dish, but in recent years the green pasta of unusual taste has gained popularity around the world, primarily in the USA. Guacamole recipes are an incredible set, every decent family has its own, special, but one unites them: in Guacamol no one adds boiled peas.

In the project of The New York Times, dedicated to cooking, dozens of guacamole recipes. The recipe for Guacamole with peas appeared on it about two years ago and remained unnoticed until July 1, until the link to him appeared on the edition of the publication. It seems that with its tweet the newspaper hit the Americans for the living.

Guacamole with peas is something completely incredible, like a herring with milk or olivier without mayonnaise, so a self-confident affirmation of an influential newspaper, as if only to prepare the sauce, provoked a storm of emotions from readers, including extremely high-ranking. The tweet was followed by the requirements to immediately delete the article, the angry comparisons of The New York Times with the Islamists, the wishes of “rot in hell” and much more, including parodies (“add antifreeze to tea”).

The topic turned out to be so sharp that it could not ignore politics. Guacamole with peas is perhaps the only topic on the Republicans and Democrats does not have any disagreements, which was demonstrated by US President Barack Obama and presidential candidate Jeb Bush.

Bush about Guacamole with peas as a month ago was asked by TV presenter Jimmy Fallon, and the politician barely restrained irritation from the mere thought of such an incredible recipe. The branch of the Republican Party in Texas went even further and accused The New York Times of unleashing the war with the state where Mexican cuisine is popular.

A wave of anger on Twitter still does not subside, but soon discontent spilled outside the service of microblogs. The speakers about a scandalous recipe appeared in dozens of respected and popular American publications, and they did not praise The New York Times for the culinary taste. Here is what Newsweek weekly writes , which at the usual time specializes on foreign policy topics and world conflicts:

“Today, The New York Times has made such an outrageous offer that we were forced to take a break in Newsweek and begin to mourn journalism. The Times suggested adding peas in Guacamol. Yes, peas. These little green little things that you did not want to eat in childhood, and maybe they began to love a little now, but you definitely don’t want to see them in a delicious mishmash of avocado. ”

“A good attempt, The New York Times, but in the foreseeable future, America will not buy a pea puree and guacamole to your hybrid,” CNN writes . The Fusion publication offers six new guacamole recipes with peas that look something like this: “1. Take a glass of traditional guacamole. 2. Add green peas. 3. Throw it in the trash. "

“The advice was given by a woman who introduced the world to fried in fruit Twinkie (as they say in her biography), so it is possible - only possible - we should give a chance to green peas. But actually, no. More than 150 years of journalism have been destroyed by one tweet. Even President Barack Obama did not approve the concept, ”writes Mashable.

Moreover, the employees of The New York Times themselves do not agree with the idea of ​​adding peas in Guacamol. The Washington correspondent of the Ben Applebaum publication on his Twitter could not believe that the reputation of the publication for so many years was carefully created for such a failure, and even the full -time culinary critic of the newspaper Sam Sifton called the “strange” recipe.

America seemed to unite in the struggle against peas in Guacamol. After fierce disputes about the flag of the Confederation and Gay Braks who have split the country in two, the US inhabitants need to find a common enemy, and they were not terrorists or some dictator, but a culinary recipe in one of the main newspapers of the country.

Pavel Borisov

Riga