Comments on: Happy Huexoloti Day Y’all

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:51:22 +0000

Cindy found this cool dictionary of animal products (Dave should love it):
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/manuals/ports/downloads/apm_pdf/a_f_spanish_words.pdf

I think maybe Cocono refers to a cooked turkey?

By: Derek White

Derek White — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:53:55 +0000

I was running once in Central Park early in the morning and saw a wild turkey. That proves they are from the Americas.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:30:09 +0000

Cocono is new to me, too. I have, however, heard guajolote, which Esther mentioned; in fact, I think it was the word I was taught in Spanish classes in school. Only when I traveled in Mexico did I begin to hear pavo.

By: Derek White

Derek White — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:59:25 +0000

All my years in Mexico, I only remember pavo, mainly pavo en mole.

i’m sure many are sticking pavo-turkeys in the oven as we speak. i myself am thinking salmon. like when you are on a plane and everyone’s eating the same thing, and you go for the other option just in case…

Jorge, the original article is here: http://hnn.us/articles/120502.html. (i think i saw it originally linked from the Harper’s blog). So you’d probably want to ask Larry Tise or the History News Network about translating, that is, if you are translating the whole thing…

By: ronbailey

ronbailey — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:53:45 +0000

Here’s a video of them doing it quite well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1TlqSBgs3U

By: ronbailey

ronbailey — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:51:12 +0000

Wild turkeys are hardly “too fat to fly” and are far from “permanently grounded” – they can take to wing quite well.

By: Jorge Spinoza

Jorge Spinoza — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:21:56 +0000

@Cindy I live in Juárez, México near El Paso. I never thought cocono were a idiom from ELP. First time I heard a person call a turkey cocono was a puerto rican guy, so I assumed that was the origin. Nice post Derek. I'm gonna translate this post and publish it in my blog. Are we good?

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:18:41 +0000

Esther, in El Paso, turkeys are called coconos. I’ve never heard the word outside of El Paso. Do you know, is this a peculiar border idiom, or is it used elsewhere?

By: Esther

Esther — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:01:26 +0000

We do still call it that -well, some modified version of that. The actual word in spanish for turkey is ‘Guajolote’ pronounced: wah-ho-lo-te or the shorter ‘pavo’

By: Kelsey Parker

Kelsey Parker — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:12:26 +0000

I am so glad you shared this …and I now know it!