The Mija Chronicles

Mexican food and culture, on both sides of the border

The mumbling street vendor

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I heard this guy while I was sitting at my desk a few days ago. Do you know what he’s saying? I think he wants to buy old iron or metal stuff, similar to the La Lllorona lady, but I can’t be sure.

Incidentally, I saw a guy in Condesa today pushing a cart full of metal scraps while yelling, “Hierro viejo!” So I stopped him and said, politely: “Excuse me, I’m a foreigner. Do you mind if I ask what you are going to do with those scraps?” He said he planned to recycle them.

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    • Yes but… what is he specifically saying? I hear the latter part (“que vendaaaaa”) but not all the stuff at the beginning. Can you decipher it?

      • colchones, tambores, escobas, lavadoras, todo el fierro viejo que venda, colchones, tambores, escobas, laas laavadoras, fieerro viejo que venda – some mumbling i don’t get and continues- todas las escobas, las lavadoras, fierro viejo que venda, todas las escobas, todas las lavadoras, todos los fierros viejos que venda.

  5. Actually, this recording is a lot older than the “la llorona” one. I remember hearing this when I was growing in D.F., but I just heard the la llorona one for the first time last year when I moved back to D.F.

    Congrats on the new domain!