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Pick The Winner: Name the Nicaraguan Hockey Team

Posted on November 17th, 2009 12:23pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Celebrity Diners, Cheap trick for comments, Travel

I’ve just returned from four action-packed days in Nicaragua. More on the astonishing amount of street food I consumed later, but for now we must pick the winner of the “Name A Hockey Team in Nicaragua Contest” we held last week.

Here are the contestants and their suggestions. Winner will receive a box of chocolate I bought from a chocolate plantation outside of the lovely city of Leon, Nicaragua.

Worzel Gummidge: Knights of The Iguana?
Brad: The Icedinistas? (you see, it’s like Sandinistas, but the opposite because hockey is played on ice).
Shane: Chinandega Chupacabras, Managua Margays, Masaya Macaws (PICK ONE)
Amy S: The Stars?
Kirk: Club de Hockey de Managua, also known as Las Paletas.
Evan Grant: The Contras, El Presidentes, Whatever Vicente Padilla wants them to be called. (Nice try, he’s a traitor and therefore disqualified.)
restaurant jobs rhode island: Blazing Iguana Nicaragua. It symbolizes their food and culture combining at the same time.

10 Comments to “Pick The Winner: Name the Nicaraguan Hockey Team”

TLS @ November 17th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

I like The Stars? with the question mark. The Nicaraguan Stars? What a conversation starter!
Megan @ November 17th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Even though I love Paletas and would love to have a chance to think about them more often (you know, like when I’m watching Nicaraguan Ice Hockey….) I have to vote for Icedinistas.
Gastronome @ November 17th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

Definately Knights of The Iguana
Blogg Hoggess @ November 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am

Icedanistas! Very clever.
Brad @ November 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Is this similar to a real election where I get to vote for myself? If so, my vote is for Icedinistas.
DallasDude @ November 18th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Eh, I will toss my hat-trick in the ring just for good measure and to muddy the waters a bit. I will address this in a culinary sense with a slant on hockey, as absurd as it is.

1. Arroz con Hielo’s: A sweep check, or in better words, estar jugándosela.

2. Estrellas Marrones Cortas: Which literally means ‘little brown stars’, which might appear to look like Gallo Pinto (their national dish of rice and beans served mainly at breakfast) or what the players themselves might look like on the ice.

3. Chammaro Chicharrón: This is what you get when you cross a well known and delicious pig skin with a well known and delicious ruling faction in the Nicaraguan government. Toss em together, add ice. Refresco!

4. Ortega Tostones: A cross between a pineapple head and a plantain. Odds are great they would ride the Zamboni across the skulls of the entire Banana Republic League. (Thank you O. Henry for the delightfully accurate perjorative term.)

5. Relampago Rellenos: Relampago was Latin Americas first super comic book hero. Think South American Superman that used grappling hooks instead of flying. And instead of Lois Lane, he dated Maria Conchita Alonso (OK, I made that part up). The team would be a sweet forecheck.

que aproveche
server jobs newport @ November 20th, 2009 at 12:39 am

Blazing Iguana Nicaragua is the best for me. It sounds cool for the team with Blazing taste of foods! Definitely would love them.
vhien @ November 20th, 2009 at 12:52 am

It may sound good if the blazing one will be chosen.Blazing Iguana Nicaragua…for blazing foods.Yum!
Nancy Nichols @ November 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am

I’ve picked Brad as the winner! Congrats!
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