My Portano Experiance

[Ceviche]

What's a "Portano" and why did he or she have access to your Perfil?

I almost thought why would any porteño or portero have access to anyone's perejil!

 

[wineguy999]

LOL Porteno = My wifes cousins new boy friend from BA or a Porteno as they call them here. I figured it was a known term I guess not. It general it seems to be used around here and by the Argentinians from the provinces in reference to people from BA that are not very likable.

http://en.wikipedia....rg/wiki/Porteño

I never really understood why people loathed them so much until the past week.This guy was driving me nuts. I have never experienced anyone so rude in my life to be honest. But thank God it is over.

You've gotta love how he turns it around, so it's the posters that don't get it. Obviously, a very deep thinker.

 

[Pensador]

I guess you had to be there. LOL Looking at my cooking sheet of Milanese's buried in oregano and prejil or whatever that stuff I never use is called. To me it was beyond shocking. Maybe it is just me but I would never just waltz into someone kitchen while they were cooking and just start putting spices on their work in progress. And I am not talking a dash or 2 I am talking sprinkled very generously all over the sheet.

When I encountered the unannounced change in my cooking I just stood there for a few seconds in unbelief, thinking no way this is not possible. Sort of like when you see something and then rub your eyes to make sure what you are seeing is real.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Won't someone think of the milas.

 

[Rich One]

I read the post and Understood he had a dog called "Portano" that entered the kitchen and devoured the Milanesas,,,

 

[Girino]

I read the post the first time and I understood that his Portero came in and finished cooking for him.

And I am convinced the OP still doesn't get our comments, anyway.

 

[nlaruccia]

I guess you had to be there. LOL Looking at my cooking sheet of Milanese's buried in oregano and prejil or whatever that stuff I never use is called. To me it was beyond shocking. Maybe it is just me but I would never just waltz into someone kitchen while they were cooking and just start putting spices on their work in progress. And I am not talking a dash or 2 I am talking sprinkled very generously all over the sheet.

When I encountered the unannounced change in my cooking I just stood there for a few seconds in unbelief, thinking no way this is not possible. Sort of like when you see something and then rub your eyes to make sure what you are seeing is real.

Dude: it's "milanesas" not "mileanses" and "perejil" not "prejil". LOL. I needed a good laugh today. We've all made similar mistakes.

 

[Pensador]

If you think a Portano is bad, try a Portano mother-in-law.

LOL Oh God I cannot even go there in my mind. Previously I have casual social encounters with them but this was the first time I had one living in my house for a week. I think I may have contracted Post Traumatic Stress disorder from the ordeal.

 

[Ceviche]

LOL Oh God I cannot even go there in my mind. Previously I have casual social encounters with them but this was the first time I had one living in my house for a week. I think I may have contracted Post Traumatic Stress disorder from the ordeal.

The termnator..we need you to save the world! buck up!

 

[ElQueso]

I thought - is Portano another lunfardo term that I don't get? After all, I haven't bothered to learn much lunfardo since I've been here, perhaps my Spanish isn't terribly idiomatic! I even went to Google translate to see if maybe it was a regular word I'd never heard before

I have a number of expat gringo friends who are always complaining that taxi drivers or waiters/waitresses, etc., "don't understand" what they're saying - on purpose, they think. But listening to them talk, I have a hard time convincing them that I often cannot understand what they are saying myself. And that's face-to-face with other visual clues while they're talking. Writing can be more difficult...

It's amazing what dropping or adding an accent mark can do to the meaning of a word, or leaving off the tilde (~) from an "n" (it is actually a completely different letter in the alphabet, the ñ, after all).

We've had a number of Argentine friends over for dinner over the years and I've never had anyone touch food I was preparing. I'd probably go ballistic if they did though. If they would have suggestions I may be nice enough to consider incorporating their suggestions (I once made a batch chicken tenders without any black pepper in the batter and they ate them dry, without the cream gravy because I wasn't going to make another batch of gravy...)

But then, I've never had Argentinos spend more than one night, and that just when the partying was a little too late and we were a little too sloshed for everyone to return home, so they crashed somewhere in the apartment. I've always found Argentine guests to be quite well behaved, at least on such a short term -

- except for teenage boys! That is a completely different story...