Thread by @GustavoArellano

This article that I'm seeing my food friends pass around is incomplete and wrong. The author says that loquats are popular in Latin America, says few people eat them in LA...then doesn't interview any Latinos for his story atlasobscura.com/articles/los-a…

It also says that loquats became common in SoCal barrios due to immigrants bringing them from Latin America. Um, no. Latinos who worked OC's loquat groves in '20s and '30s took them to their homes. I had an intern do this history back in 2016 scpr.org/programs/offra…

There's a full Latino history to loquats in SoCal that @dannosowitz completely missed — why? Also, the true SoCal capital of loquats is SanTana — but knowing that would require one talk to actual Mexicans and travel to OC, which gaba Angeleno writers seem loathe to do

Should’ve written the truth: gentrifying gabas don’t eat loquats because they’re interlopers who don’t bother to learn the lay of the land. People who have actually lived in those neighborhoods for decades? Loquat butter/jam/liqueur/BBQ sauce/syrup/raw and SO MUCH MORE

Also, this line. What is it with gabas who insist on calling their gentrified communities east of downtown LA Eastside or East Side? Even this pendejo OCer knows the Eastside is the Latino sections of LA that border East LA but ain't

Then there' this interesting line. So the premise of the article is that no one eats loquats...then the authors turns around and say Latinos actually do, because they're free and we're poor and MAN do gabachos make assumptions about Latinos yet don't want to talk to us