Old Skool Danvur: The Force that was Aqua Net!

I can remember back in the days of LA Babyface and pastel colored IOU sweaters, the one necessity every Danvurian 'chica' had to have was an eco-sized can of Aqua Net. For today's Danvurian youth the whole retro Amy Winehouse 'bouffant' is the style. In Danvur, this was not the case back in the late 80's. Though the appeal for hi-hair was the same, it was approached differently.

Today the hair is styled for the back of the head. all the height of the hair resides in the back of the head, it's kind of a vintage approach. Back in the Aqua Net days the 'front' of the hair had to be high. Danvurian girls would grow out their bangs, use the curling iron to curl the tips as high as they would go, then apply a couple of coats of Aqua-Net for reinforcement. One by one the Danvurian girl would curl each individual strand of hair and spray it until all bangs in front stood high and glorious. Then after this meticulous hair job, the girl would then spray the entire head for extra hold. I think on average the "Poofer-Chic" went through a can of Aqua Net a day. But with all this attention to the bangs and front of the head, the Danvurian girl of the 80's would neglect the back, thus giving her a bad case of "bed head".

The poofer-chic took pride in her hair, she was like Samson; her strength was in her hair. But when living in Denver, the elements and high altitude can be too much, causing the Poofer-Chics hair to go flat. Flat hair days would render the poofer-chic powerless and embarrassed. Flat days usually happened one of two ways: 1.) They ran out of Aqua Net 2.) waiting for the bus in the rain or snow. For some of the more driven poofer-chics, running out of Aqua Net wasn't enough to stop them from creating their infamous bouffant. Since the Danvurian chic was so passionate about her mane, she became quite the MacGyver and would create a spray out of sugar and water. Sugar-water was the back up to the can of Aqua Net. many girls preferred the sugar-water method over the Aqua Net because it held up better in the elements, creating an indestructible wall of hair.

Well the days of poofer-chics are behind us now, and with a new crop of emo/chola chics emerging from the streets of Danvur the passion for "high hairdos" still lives. But make no mistake these chicas will take you out if you mess with their locks!

Menudo recipes passed down

Anyone who's been to a Mexican restaurant is familiar with menudo. Menudo is a traditional mexican soup made with tripe, chile and hominy.
However the relationship between this infamous bowl of cow reticulum (the second chamber of the cows stomach) and the Danvurian is a sacred tradition.

From previous posts, the one thing we've learned about Danvurians is their love for food. To the Danvurian, a bowl of menudo is not just a bowl of soup, it's tradition! Danvurians pride themselves on tradition, particularly family recipes. Menudo recipes are most certainly the holy grail of all Danvurian family recipes. Some Danvurians are so obsessed with their family menudo recipe, they go to lengths trying to best others in the family. For instance cousins have been known to go to blows over who makes the best menudo from grandmas passed down recipe.

When it gets to be too laborious for the Danvurian elder (usually grandma) to cook for her entire family, she will begin to reveal her recipes to the family. Thus it begins, the passing of the proverbial torch onto the younger generation. On average, the grandmother of a Danvurian family is known to mother up to 8 children (this does not include the numerous grand kids and great grand kids she mothers and raises as her own.). It's nice to see grandma hang up the apron, after decades of cooking for a huge Danvurian family, who eats for recreation. If it were up to the Danvurian family, the grandma would cook until she is unable to get around the kitchen on her own. I don't know what it is about Danvurains when they see their grandma working her little butt off in the kitchen? I think because the elder coddles her children to a point where the Danvurian can't even warm their own tort on the placa. But to grandma it's ok, she'll do ANYTHING to make her hitos/hitas happy.