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Feliz National Empanada Day

April 8, 2024
Our hosts taste-test empanadas and weigh in on the most important question of our age: which country makes the best empanadas?
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Today is National Empanada day where we pay homage to the savory
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pastry cherished for its many flavorful variations.
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The term empanada traces its roots to that.
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Galician Portuguese and Spanish language where it signifies the act of wrapping
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or encasing in bread.
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I'm hungry. Yeah.
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Yeah, we shouldn't have put this out before we started this
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Not our best idea.
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So we have empanadas from Argentina Cuba,
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Mexico. What do you think Jenny?
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Should we give it a taste?
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I think we should wait j you look a little left out
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Come on. You wanna try Dominican is left out.
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Ah He got something to say.
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He's got something to say.
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No, Sak Palitos.
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All of this right here.
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This is, it is,
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it, it looks like it has potential ones,
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the toasted ones I can enjoy whatever they got going on here
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I'm gonna go,
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you know, go through my phone and enjoy pictures of my
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mom. You know,
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they have empanadas, they don't have Dominican food out here like
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that. But y'all can enjoy that.
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I guess. I mean,
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if it means more empanadas for us,
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Jenny win. I'm let's get it.
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Yes, let's go.
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We don't use utensils in Colombia for empanadas.
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Oh, let's get down to business.
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She said I don't need these.
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Ok. So Mexico first.
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Pardon? My rich Jenny.
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But I'm getting into it.
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I'm gonna do this one too.
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Let's see. There's the same.
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I think so. Mm.
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Sweet. I've never had a Mexican empanada.
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I'm intrigued. Yeah,
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it is sweet and powdery.
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Mm. Ok. Let's do this one.
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Oh, pina. Mm.
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Oh, good. Well,
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I kind of wanna try the pina.
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I'm getting a lot of pina.
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Me too. That one should be left till the end.
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It's sweet. Let's go to Cuba.
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Mm Look my fit.
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This lobster. No shit good.
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This shit's on my country.
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This makes me want to have a Cuban husband.
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Mhm mm OK. I'll go back to that one later.
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Mm oh I like the other one better.
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Mhm But still good.
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Mhm I don't know when I was trying this one.
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Celia Cruz was playing in my head.
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Say tell me why I was thinking about my Cuban crust.
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All right. Argentina cheers.
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Cheers. Mm mm mm mhm mhm Just so good at savory
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and I wanna squeeze it.
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So the meat oozes out of it.
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That's what I'm doing.
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It's, it's very savory and it just feels very filling good
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flavor. So I'm gonna go back to this one.
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I will be back here.
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We have to I know Latinos is that chic chur?
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See the chimichurri adds a sort of herbal flavor.
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Is that the right word?
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What would you say?
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It's oily. I don't really like it.
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I don't know what kind of flavor that is,
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but really I feel like it.
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I don't know. To me it just feels healthy,
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you know. Yeah.
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But you're right. It is oily and herbally.
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I think I'd rather add the salsa.
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Ok. I'll give it a try.
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I'm just so bad with Pate.
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Oh, yeah. You're Colombian.
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I know. No.
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Sana pala proxy. That's a whole universe in there.
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It's so good, Jenny.
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I'm gonna have to rank this.
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Dos Tres. Mm.
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Ok. What do you think?
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Or those dress for carrying?
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I didn't say that.
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I didn't say that.
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Mexico. I love you.
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I love you too guys.
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I mean Mexico, my,
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I love Mexico. You know,
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that's where my, me and my family are from but they
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can't make enchiladas. They may stick to enchiladas.
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Not empanadas. No.
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Like, I mean,
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for dessert. Yeah.
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There you go. I'm so hard on my,
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I'm so hard on my country.
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But yeah, so that would have to be my top.
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I'm still chewing. I'm sorry.
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I just saw myself and my cheeks look full.
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I wish my other cheeks were full.
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I'm just kidding.