The other day in a restaurant they asked me for salt, when I wanted to pass the salt shaker from hand to hand to my friend, he shook his head in the sign of “no”, and pointed to the table with his eyes. “No mambrú,” I replied, perhaps a little more coarse. “I’m not going to salt you.” There are customs that are difficult to understand. On the way home, on the second floor of the peripheral, I saw the face of Claudia Sheinbaum in a billboard: look dreamily at the future in the distance. This is the advertising campaign for the August edition of Executive World. For some “inexplicable” reason it is still well placed in September. I remembered the number of politicians who have used the same ruse: advertising books and magazines to circumvent the electoral law. Such a stale custom even seems normal among the gentlemen of the old regime, but it speaks very badly of a “transformer of public life”, co-equipper of the president of the moral primer. To be honest, I hate hearing her give arguments in favor of the imperative need to change the INE while cheating to circumvent the electoral rules. She reminds me of those very puritanical politicians who want to ban prostitution and drugs but who dance very close together with escorts at their parties, well positioned. It is clear that the doctor is neither consistent nor faithful to basic democratic principles. She doesn’t say it, but it’s good to make her see it: you act based on the same maxim that your rival Felipe Calderón boasted: to win “it has been as it has been.” She walks then, but she doesn’t know about baths of purity, or about being different from “Comandante Borolas”, or about transforming the moral spirit of Mexican democracy.
Another disconcerting custom, and that that same day caught my attention on twitter, is that of washing the chicken. There are people who wash the chicken! That was new to me and very difficult to understand. Apparently they pass their breasts and their thighs through water to remove the salmonella. People, reconsider a little: the water does not kill the bug and it does deposit it in your sink. The heat, on the other hand, does kill it and, as far as I know, nobody in this country eats chicken breast carpaccio, not mambrú. Do a Google search, it is easy to find that salmonella does not survive 70 degrees Celsius. So if you’re going to put the chicken on a hot griddle, in a hot oven, or in boiling water, there’s no way the bacteria will survive. The US Department of Agriculture stated in a 2019 press release that people are putting themselves at risk by washing raw chicken meat. It is recommended to cook it until finished. On the other hand, it also suggests that all vegetables that will be eaten raw be prepared before handling said raw meat, to avoid contaminating them.
Information helps combat risky or pointless habits. Giving people elements to evaluate their actions and decide how to proceed is a good mechanism for change. Eradicating the tricks and traps of politicians is much more uphill, because they pay off: it increases their recognition and they are hardly punished. Are we defenseless? When one stands alone in front of the sea, like Caspar Friedrich’s monk, one feels insignificant, it is true, but we have crossed oceans: it is enough to build solid ships that resist the ravages of the seas of filth. That cheating costs them dearly! The impunity and the shadow of the leader is what allows them to act as the owners of the ball.
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