- Okay, so casamiento is black beans with white rice.
Which it's merged together and it turns into one color,
so they call it casamiento, which means marriage.
Who do you think gave the ultimatum,
the black bean or the rice?
(both laugh)
Hi, I'm Mildred.
- I'm Yoly and we both are starring
in "The Ultimatum: Queer Love."
We're both proud Latinas,
and today I'll be sharing one
of my favorite Venezuelan dishes.
- And I'll be sharing one
of my favorite Salvadoran dishes.
- [Both] This is "Taste Buds."
(upbeat music)
- [Yoly] What dish did you bring me today?
- Okay, girl, I brought you pupusas, pupusas revueltas.
It has everything in there, Chicharrón,
vegetables- - Black beans?
- Black beans and red beans.
That's like our specialty.
What did you bring today?
- [Yoly] We're doing arepas.
But I got you a vegetarian arepa.
- Aw, that's so sweet. - Yeah.
- Thank you.
- So you're a vegetarian.
How did you come out as a vegetarian to your family?
- I didn't.
I was hiding it for a while.
For them it's like a disrespect, you know?
Family's like, you have to eat everything we give you,
everything on the plate. - As if.
- You already know that.
So it was really hard, but now they're sweet about it.
And they're like, "We made it with beans and cheese."
- Was it harder coming out as vegetarian
than coming out, coming out?
- Probably.
- Oh, that's so sweet, so sad.
Okay, so let's dig in.
- What is that? - Ooh...
- Ooh, wait a minute.
Pupusas have curtido and salsa de tomate.
I hope they did not miss...
Oh, here it is.
Yeah, so pupusas is like a pancake,
kind of like a flatbread.
You know, just dough with like, the meat in it
and cheese in it.
Okay, so this is a revuelta. - I'm literally starving.
- Let me do this for you.
My grandma makes pupusas. - Your grandma, aw.
- My grandma makes pupusas and then my cousin,
she makes pupusas, too.
So I go to their house 'cause I don't cook.
I grew up in a Salvadoran household
'cause my father and his mom are Salvadoran.
I actually was born in Mexico, yo soy Mexicana.
- I'm hecho en Mexico. - Yeah.
I'm born in Venezuela, but hecho en Mexico.
- But hecho en Mexico.
I get it. - We're so cute.
- Oh my god, you're conceived there.
- Like, I only wanna get tattoo saying that.
- Really?
- Yeah, I think it's kind of funny.
TMI, sorry, mom.
So do I eat it like this or do I-
- I'm gonna hide this fork.
Don't ever do that.
Just bite it, just bite it.
Just do it.
It's sexy.
- Mm-hmm.
(Mildred laughs)
Mm-hmm.
- I love that you love that. - Mm!
I cannot eat spicy food.
I've been working hard to eat spicy food,
but I actually can't eat spicy that well.
- So what's your favorite dish, like growing up
that your mom made for you?
- So my mom is Nicaraguan on one side,
so she'll do like the shredded beef
with the rice and the platano.
Just like, super classic.
That's my favorite.
Now that they're fancy
and like, being healthy and stuff,
now instead of like rice, it's quinoa.
I'm like, don't do that.
Go back your roots.
- Y'all need to remember
where you come from. - Don't do that.
- Okay, so casamiento is black beans with white rice
which it's merged together and it turns into one color.
So they call it casamiento which means marriage.
With casamiento, it's black beans and rice, right?
Who do you think gave the ultimatum?
The black bean or the rice?
(both laugh)
- Oh, it was white rice that gave the ultimatum
to the black bean, for a fact.
The black bean takes forever to cook
and you gotta do all the, like, whatever.
- What is this? - Oh, hell, yeah.
- What is this, mami?
Tell me. - That's the arepa.
- Oh, okay.
Touch my food, it's okay.
- I'm sorry, mama.
I did wash my hands.
- Okay, so you got aguacate, you got avocado.
You got the caraotas.
It looks like you got the platanos frito in there.
And it might have Caribbean cheese,
you know, just like the white cheese.
You want to eat it like a sandwich.
Es como una gordita Mexicana.
Right, it's like a gordita?
- Dang, that's big.
- Mm.
- Girl, what you think? - Mm.
- Fire? - Mm.
- Oh my god, it's so good.
- When I came out to my family,
my mom first was like, she was understanding.
But she was also like,
"Did I do something wrong as a mother?"
Which was so sad 'cause I'm like,
"No, you made me be able to be like,
this is who I am, this is what it is."
My dad, I had to come out to four times.
'Cause I came out and then it was like,
he's just blacks out about it.
And I think he thought maybe it was gonna be a phase
but we never talked about it.
Everyone's come around.
Like, it's not a big deal.
But we haven't told my grandma.
Abuelita. (laughs)
- My grandmother is...
She's like, don't ask don't tell.
Yo no se porque no te has casado.
I told my father when I was 14.
And I said, you know, "I like women."
And he's like, "No you don't."
He took me to church.
I don't know, he was trying...
They were trying to pray the gay outta me.
And I was like...
You know, as I got older,
I feel like my father started accepting it more and more.
And he's like, wait, this is serious.
- Cross-culturally, dating...
I mean, people...
I will say this, what was nice about dating Mal
and dating a Latina was that you don't...
I didn't get the like, "Oh, you're so spicy."
"Oh, you're so..."
- Before I didn't date Latinas
and I married someone Caucasian.
But it just was getting to the point
where I didn't feel understood
to the point where they were like...
I would wake up one morning
and I wanna hear, "Hi, beautiful."
And I would hear, "Oh, you're so spicy today."
Like, no, we don't wanna hear that anymore.
Like, we don't.
- Truly, can we stop that forever?
- Please, please.
- Spicy. - Please.
- I can't even eat spicy.
Okay, well, I had so much fun learning about your culture.
- I had so much fun, too.
Thank you for the fully-loaded arepa.
I'm gonna talk all about it. - It's so good.
Make sure to watch "The Ultimatum: Queer Love"
now on Netflix.
And let us know in the comments
what your favorite Venezuelan and Salvi food is.