Day 88: Plant-Based Mole Meets a Skeptic
In Puebla, Maximiliano (A) and Montserrat (B), a young couple who make a plant-based mole paste, pitch it to Don Leopoldo (C), the owner of a chain of traditional restaurants, hoping he will invest.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Spanish word to see what it means.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Spanish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Don Leopoldo, le presentamos Molécula: mole poblano en pasta, cien por ciento vegetal. Buscamos tres millones por el diez por ciento.
Don Leopoldo, may we present Molécula: mole poblano paste, one hundred percent plant-based. We're looking for three million pesos for ten percent.
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B
El hecho de que no lleve manteca no le quita cuerpo: lo freímos en aceite de aguacate. Pruébelo, por favor.
The fact that it has no lard in it doesn't take away its body: we fry it in avocado oil. Please, try it.
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C
¿Molécula? Suena a laboratorio, no a cazuela. Pero está bueno, lo cual me molesta: en mis restaurantes el mole lleva manteca desde 1962.
Molécula? It sounds like a laboratory, not a cooking pot. But it's good, which annoys me: in my restaurants the mole has had lard in it since 1962.
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A
El kilo nos cuesta 210 pesos, más que con manteca, pero la llegada de clientes jóvenes lo compensaría de sobra.
A kilo costs us 210 pesos to make, more than with lard, but the arrival of young customers would more than make up for it.
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C
¿Clientes jóvenes? A mis restaurantes los jóvenes llegan arrastrados por sus abuelas, cuyo paladar, les aseguro, es el que decide si regresan.
Young customers? Young people come to my restaurants dragged along by their grandmothers, whose palate, I assure you, is what decides whether they come back.
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A
Y si el precio le preocupa, podemos cambiar el chocolate de Tabasco por uno comercial. Nadie notaría la diferencia.
And if the price worries you, we can swap the Tabasco chocolate for a commercial one. Nobody would notice the difference.
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B
¿Perdón? Maxi, el que cambiemos el chocolate sería traicionar una receta cuyo origen es el metate de mi abuela, no una hoja de cálculo.
Sorry? Maxi, changing the chocolate would mean betraying a recipe that started on my grandmother's grinding stone, not in a spreadsheet.
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A
Montse, el metate de tu abuela no paga la renta. Perdón, don Leopoldo, esto no venía en la presentación.
Montse, your grandmother's grinding stone doesn't pay the rent. Sorry, Don Leopoldo, this wasn't in the presentation.
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C
No, sigan, sigan: ella defiende el sabor y usted, el costo. Casi nunca vienen en el mismo frasco.
No, go on, go on: she stands up for the flavor and you for the cost. The two hardly ever come in the same jar.
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B
¿O sea que sí le interesa? ¿Aunque su mole lleve manteca desde 1962?
So you are interested? Even though your mole has had lard in it since 1962?
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C
Me interesa, con dos condiciones: el chocolate no se toca y el primer frasco es para mi mamá. Si no extraña la manteca, firmamos.
I am, on two conditions: the chocolate stays as it is, and the first jar goes to my mother. If she doesn't miss the lard, we'll sign.
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