You know you're from New Mexico if...

[sherwood 24262]

Originally Posted by Greenmon

HEY my WIfe and i grow our on peppers and make our own Salsa does that count ? Whats with this emphasis on Green Chilli ? is this a meat chilli or veggie ?
We can make anykind ! Our neighbors want our recipes, but we show them how out of pity haha . We make Chilli Rellenos form our Garden ANaheim Chillis, we think Pablanos are too thick skinned and wonder why resturants want to serve Chilli Rellenos this way- ANaHeims Rule ! We can't wait to sell our place and Move to New Mexcio- we are so excited. Best WIshes . PS maybe we are Pepper Snobs, but we know the difference, we growem ! all in fun.

if you are from new mexico, chili is just the pepper not the stew. Hope you make it to New Mex. You will probably come to hold Anaheim in some disdain after you get into some real New Mex chili.

[Towanda]

Originally Posted by Steve Hazzard

I think that I just decoded your screenname "Towanda"; would that be "To wander" or "To want to"? We have a Towanda, Pennsylvania which is about 50 miles northwest of my location in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Steve, I just now saw this.

We have a Towanda, Kansas, too, right on I-35.

But my screen name comes from Towanda in "Fried Green Tomatoes". Long story.

[ikncnu]

Here's a couple more:
When you visit family "out of state" they ask if anyone speaks English where you live?
When you walked home from school you'd walked backwards more than forwards.
You'd call WSMR before scheduling your dentist appointment.

[Hunter Wold]

Nothing like good Sopapillas and honey to quell that lingering extra hot green chile...mmmmm...

and the cowboy hello...like when you are driving your truck (the official vehicle of NM) down the ole road with your cowboy hat on (the official hat of NM-not a BB hat)..and the other driver gives you the finger..that is the ONE finger WAVE with the index finger..that's like sayin howdy.....

not the kind you would get in the well those places some of us used to have been in...

And how about drivin for miles on some roads and NO traffic not one car, maybe a couple antelope or a rabbit or those rattlers sunning themselves on the warm pavement..

Yes sir...NM is the place for me...
Farm livin is for me...

Happy trails,
Hunter:

[d.rae87]

Heck Ya! I can relate!!
I guess I must be a true New Mexican.

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by GregW

I have made, using locally grown apples, hard cider (freshly fermented unpasteurized cider), apple wine (still and sparkling)(filtered hard cider aged in old Champaign bottles) and freeze concentrated applejack (hard cider put in the freezer until partially frozen and the ice crystals strained out and repeated until the drink is about 20 proof). I figure I’ll keep making the stuff because the primary ingredient is fresh fruit and fruit is grown in NM as well as NH. Adding some chili would create an interesting drink. I’ll experiment with a dash of habanero sauce in my next glass of my own apple wine.

here ya go--

[Devin Bent]

Did anyone do this?

You know you are in New Mexico if . . .

Every vehicle you ever owned is still in your front yard.

[GregW]

If I didn't live in a condo (could never afford a house around here) they still would be in my back yard. Old autos are mines of all sorts of sheet metal, bolts, wire and other useful stuff. I grew up as a Yankee and we never tossed out anything that might be vaguely useful.

One time, when I was about 14, I rebuilt the teeth of a cast iron drive gear for a carousel using scrap steel bar stock and brazing rod. I cleaned it up with a grinder and a file.

[SoggyInSeattle]

Wow, GregW - you sound like my Dad. He and my grandpa have about 2 acres of "scrap" and use it for all sorts of stuff. He just built an elevator, for my Mom as she can no longer climb stairs to their garage loft, out of the stuff he's collected over his & grandpa's lifetime. Very cool stuff.

[SoggyInSeattle]

Maybe I've said this one before... but this will hit home with others from the PNW... they will understand what I mean. You know you are from NM when you don't have to rush out and do yard work when you see the sun is shining... because it will be shining again tomorrow!!!