Wednesday 17 September 2008

"CHIMICHANGA!"

To his girlfriend: "Chimichanga, I love you."
To his bestfriends: "Chimichanga you guys. You guys are the best."
To his burger: "Chimichanga! Chimichanga! Chimichanga! THE-BEST-BURGER-EVER!"

Months later, to me: "Chimichanga. That girl is rocking the chimichangas out of those tortillas." 
I had to say something, this was getting beyond a joke, i routinely encourage my friends to coin catch phrases, but this one was knackered, never had legs, broken spokes on a wheel that never existed. 
"Mate, that's knackered, that phrase, it's shit!"
"Whaa....?"
"Do you even know? Nnnn...you'd think i was being a knowcoach!"
"Go on. Say it."
"OK.....Do you even know where that word comes from? It comes from the founder of Tuscon, Arizona's own restaurant El Charro. She accidentally dropped a pastry into the deep fat fryer in 1922. She immediately began to utter a spanish curse-word beginning 'chi....', but quickly stopped herself and instead exclaimed chimichanga, the spanish equivalent of thingamajig. Fortuitously, the euphemism was a well understood Indianism for the standard Spanish 'chango quemado', meaning 'broiled monkey', which the chimichanga resembles. So, so mate, that's a shit turn of phrase to use, it just doesn't fit! Learn a lesson! Give it a rest." 

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