Janzie
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Train whistle
We live in Mulegé and this season we were surprised to periodically hear a train whistle. Due to the absence of rail service here, we figured out
fairly quickly that it was some vehicle with a specialty horn. But recently the entertainment seems to have disappeared. Anyone know anything about
this.?
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SWEET POTATOES...!!!!
They're sold all over Mexico late in the evening going up and down the town streets:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&...
Here's more links to CAMOTES ASADOS or as known by the locals: El Carrito de los Camotes :
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android...
This is a very popular folk song about it:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&...
El Carrito de los Camotes is a very old tradition in México...
[Edited on 1-22-2017 by carlosg]
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I LOVE those yummy yams and am conditioned to salivate when I hear a train whistle now!
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Next time you hear a steam whistle, go to it, you might find a sweet potato
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Yes, you might. Take a walk on the wild side, what do you have to loose?
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Well, food can be sexual
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All your responses are duly noted, but I don't think that's what we've been hearing. This is more like a diesel locomotive than a steam whistle.
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Quote: Originally posted by David K  |
Yes, a 'camote' can mean more than just a sweet potato or yam! 
I still am not getting what vegetables have to do with a train horn? |
Perhaps the more pressing question is what is the connection between Shmita and Mount Sinai?
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The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When
one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container
with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords | The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When
one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container
with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good. |
FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing!
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords | The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When
one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container
with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good. |
FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing! |
DK, the whistle thing, it's not just in la Paz....
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The train whistle is on a Mexican's long haul truck. I've heard it intermittently for several years as he rolls through town on hwy 1.
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| Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666 | | Quote: Originally posted by David K | | Quote: Originally posted by Jack Swords | The camote seller (sweet potato) in La Paz uses charcoal heat to keep the
camotes warm. He also uses the same heat to create steam which drives a steam whistle like old trains. It sounds like a train steam whistle. When
one hears that whistle (like the ice cream man's truck), folks know the camote man is there. The sweet potatos are handed out in a paper container
with cream if you want it. Fork included. Quite good. |
FINALLY, AN ANSWER! Thank you, Jack... I never heard that story before. What a cool thing! |
DK, the whistle thing, it's not just in la Paz....
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Understood, I have never heard it in any city... probably because I am mostly camping out in the boonies, in Baja!?
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| Quote: Originally posted by MulegeAL | | The train whistle is on a Mexican's long haul truck. I've heard it intermittently for several years as he rolls through town on hwy 1.
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Double down ditto on the long-hauler with a train whistle on his truck. I've heard him 'toot' the horn on Hwy 1 down on the lower bay of Concepcion
for 20 years. Quite the conversation piece.
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Train Whistle
OK, so it's either the Camote seller, a long haul trucker or both. Hopefully people won't get the two confused
[Edited on 1-23-2017 by bajaguy]
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LETS TRY THIS:
https://www.hornblasters.com/audio
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Seein's as how the OP mentioned Mulege, I never heard a 'train whistle' in town, and never had a yam I didn't cook. Plus, there's a YUUUGE difference
between a 'train whistle' and a full-on diesel locomotive air horn, which has been heard on the highway periodically, but not at all often, emanating
from HWY 1 areas, as far as 25 miles south of town.
Great stories about the yam vendors tho...... never heard/saw one but would love to nosh on a tasty camote done custom.
However, all of this can be "alternative news". New day and age. 
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