# Why do you insist on making rude, unsolicited comments on my lunch? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 18, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196 "2010-09-18T17:04:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/81 "2010-09-27T18:05:08Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Or buy them some okra. Too subtle? Too cruel. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/82 "2010-09-27T21:03:44Z")
go load up on cesos tacos. when they ask what you’re eating just tell them what it is, smile really big, then dig in with relish. Offer to share. if cesos is a little too hard core for you, menudo or lengua will have a good effect as well. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/83 "2010-09-27T22:22:24Z")
Uh… what’s a cesos taco? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/84 "2010-09-27T22:24:22Z")
My mom had a big old bowl of _menudo_ in Hermosillo once. They didn’t tell her until she was done. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/85 "2010-09-27T22:53:38Z")
Menudo can be okay. Tasty but the texture weirded me out a bit. But then, I can eat haggis. You wanna scare your cow-orkers, bring in some andouillette sausage ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/86 "2010-09-27T23:13:02Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Uh… what’s a cesos taco? Think on it a bit, it’ll come to you.😃 ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/87 "2010-09-27T23:20:24Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > Uh… what’s a cesos taco? > > Think on it a bit, it’ll come to you.😃 Is this some whoosh? Really, would people be that grossed out by brain tacos? I mean, I don’t eat them, but they sell them in just about every single Mexican restaurant (of the thousands) in my city. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/88 "2010-09-27T23:36:27Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > Uh… what’s a cesos taco? > > Think on it a bit, it’ll come to you.😃 What? Seriously - what does it mean. I don’t speak any Spanish at all so I haven’t a clue. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/89 "2010-09-27T23:46:29Z")
Use that thing that when you query it, it fires across a series of interconnected wires and uses some built-in algorhitm to narrow down possibilities to get to the answer and nearest-probable answer. Or use Google. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/90 "2010-09-28T00:33:07Z")
I see - you find it amusing to make coy references instead of answering a direct question. Gotcha. Nothing like fighting ignorance via misdirection. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/91 "2010-09-28T00:35:14Z")
It’s BRAAAAAAIIIIIINNS!!! ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/92 "2010-09-28T01:26:02Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I see - you find it amusing to make coy references instead of answering a direct question. Gotcha. Nothing like fighting ignorance via misdirection. _shrug_ I mean, it was a little odd that they were being vague, but where I live, even the whitest of white people know what it is. It’s that common. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/93 "2010-09-28T01:38:18Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > It has nothing to do with your lunch choices. They hate you, and want you to die. You’re welcome. No no they’re gay and hitting on you. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/94 "2010-09-28T01:48:27Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > _shrug_ I mean, it was a little odd that they were being vague, but where I live, even the whitest of white people know what it is. It’s that common. I’m uncertain why you think that would apply to NW Indiana. Despite the anti-immigration crowd’s insistence that the nation is being overrun by Mexican culture, there are still large swathes of the country that do not, in fact, have any idea what “cesos” might be. Not to mention that Google thinks it’s “sesos” and can’t decide whether it’s the brains from cows, sheep, or pigs. It was a simple honest question and deserved a simple honest answer, not snottiness. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/95 "2010-09-28T02:01:06Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Not to mention that Google thinks it’s “sesos” and can’t decide whether it’s the brains from cows, sheep, or pigs. Your Google is weird. Mine doesn’t try to correct it, and, seeing as I would assume the term is Spanish, looking up “cesos spanish” told me in the first link (without even clicking on it) that it was brains. > [@](#): > > It was a simple honest question and deserved a simple honest answer, not snottiness. Hahahahahahaha! Not that you’re wrong, but there have been so many times I’ve wanted to say that here. But I just realized people do that. It helps if you interpret each snarky reply as an attempt at a joke. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/96 "2010-09-28T02:05:46Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > I see - you find it amusing to make coy references instead of answering a direct question. Gotcha. Nothing like fighting ignorance via misdirection. > > _shrug_ I mean, it was a little odd that they were being vague, but where I live, even the whitest of white people know what it is. It’s that common. Where you live even the whitest people know what “cesos” means? Do you live in Mexico? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/97 "2010-09-28T02:23:47Z")
Well, California _used to be_ part of Mexico… And thanks for telling me what it was, **descamisado** ---
**Author:** ![BayouHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BayouHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BayouHazard)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/98 "2010-09-28T02:28:33Z")
Y’know, people always seem to comment positively on my lunch salads… “Wow, that looks healthy…” I am a vegan health nut-mainly because nasty chronic health problems motivate me to be. (Although into every life a few PB & J sammiches must, perforce, fall… also some nice semisweet chocolate.) If I ate meat, I would not eat cow brains. Mad cow disease. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/99 "2010-09-28T03:03:35Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Uh… what’s a cesos taco? cow brains. if you dont think about what you’re eating its actually really good ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196/100 "2010-09-28T03:45:40Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Well, California _used to be_ part of Mexico… So did Arizona and I don’t think non-Spanish speaking whites know what the hell it means around here. I think _ **Diosa** _ knew what it meant and so she’s assuming that everyone else does, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-you-insist-on-making-rude-unsolicited-comments-on-my-lunch/554196.md?page=6)