In Latin, the middle finger was the digitus impudicus, meaning the shameless, indecent or offensive finger. In the 1st century AD, Persius had superstitious female relatives concoct a charm with the infamous finger (digitus infamis) and purifying spit; while in the Satyricon, an old woman uses dust, spit and her middle finger to mark the forehead before casting a spell.
Confidence votes 8. Hispanics (like me) eat most of the foods that dumb Americans eat, like cheeseburger's, meat, vegetables, and stuff like that. We have one exception though.... when we're not eating out, we like to cook our culture's food.
These findings strengthen those of previous studies, which show that US-born Mexican Americans have lower intakes of foods associated with a Mexican-type diet similar to the Tomato/Tortilla diet found in this study, and higher intakes of foods associated with the Western and Coffee/Sugar diets than Mexico-born Mexican Americans (10,12,14,15,28).