“Cultural Appropriation” Forces 2 White Women to Close Burrito Shop
TIM BROWN
FREEDOMOUTPOST.COM
MAY 27, 2017
In another story coming from the Communist state of Oregon, two women were forced out of their burrito business due to “cultural appropriation.”
Kali Wilgus and Liz ‘LC’ Connelly opened Kooks Burritos in Portland, Oregon following a trip the two took to Puerto Nuevo, Mexico in December 2016. The two friends’ business was an instant success until they were interviewed by the Willamette Week.
“In Puerto Nuevo, you can eat $5 lobster on the beach, which they give you with this bucket of tortillas,” Connelly said. “They are handmade flour tortillas that are stretchy and a little buttery, and best of all, unlimited.”
Enjoying the tortillas, the duo sought out how to recreate them.
“I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did,” Connelly said. “They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins. They wouldn’t tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into the windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look. We learned quickly it isn’t quite that easy.”
“On the drive back up to Oregon, we were still completely drooling over how good [the tortillas] were, and we decided we had to have something similar in Portland,” Connelly added. “The day after we returned, I hit the Mexican market and bought ingredients and started testing it out. Every day I started making tortillas before and after work, trying to figure out the process, timing, refrigeration and how all of that works.”
Finally, she got it all right and the two opened up Kooks Burritos the very next weekend.
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