Reasons to watch the World Cup on Telemundo:
1. They are one of the only broadcasters that run zero ads during the "hydration breaks". Instead they run highlights of the game and show fans doing cool stuff inside and outside the stadium. ✅
2. Spanish commentary is an absolute vibe and even if you don't speak it you'll be screaming NUEVAYOL by the end of your 2nd or 3rd game. ✅
3. They don't refer to the hydration breaks as the "end of the quarter". ✅
Reasons not to watch the World Cup on Telemundo:
1. You LOVE Alexei Lalas and you need that Fox Broadcast so you can hear everything he thinks about the World Cup. ❌
For me, the decision is easy!! VIVA TELEMUNDO!!
USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.
I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.
In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.
"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.
"Honey, that's what it looks like."
The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."
I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.
I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.
It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.
"Well?" the waitress asked.
"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."
"Everybody does, hon."
Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.
Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.
I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.
It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
This is …. And I don’t say this lightly…. The single greatest piece of writing I have ever seen in my life
The Japanese have discovered unlimited chips & salsa and it’s beautiful