Garden shop taught me to use those styrofoam packing noodles to fill up the bottom half of large pots. Works great, saves on soil, and they are lighter and easier to move around.
I think it’s a commentary on how Hispanic stereotyping was “OK” in the 50’s (remember the Frito Bandito?) and how it now seems we haven’t come as far as we thought we had. Racism of all types has always been alive and well but our current environment now makes people feel free to crawl out from under their rocks to express it.
Snoopy